Senior Manager, Associate Director, AI Cloud Native Forward Deployed

Accenture

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Columbus, OHSt. Petersburg, FLDallas, TXAtlanta, GA
Salary
$132,500–$366,300 / yr
Posted
73 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Above market

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Accenture is a leading global professional services company specializing in IT, strategy, consulting, and operations, with a strong focus on digital transformation, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence.

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TL;DR · Senior Manager, Associate Director, AI Cloud Native Forward Deployed

As an AI Cloud Native Forward Deployed Senior Manager | Associate Director within the Advanced Technology Centers, you will serve as both a technologist and trusted advisor embedded directly with clients. You will partner with stakeholders to define use cases, prototype, and deploy robust agentic workflows across industries like finance, healthcare, and retail. Your daily responsibilities include designing enterprise-ready AI agents featuring retrieval, orchestration, and lifecycle observability while building abstraction layers for providers such as Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. You will utilize Python or Java to develop scalable systems using containerization, microservices, and serverless architectures. Key technical requirements include experience with LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, and tools like GitHub Copilot or Claude Code. You will solve complex business problems by building custom AI agents that automate workflows and scale across modern infrastructure in production environments.

What you'll do

  • Design and engineer enterprise-ready AI agents featuring retrieval, orchestration, and policy-based routing.
  • Develop abstraction layers across multiple AI providers to ensure seamless integration into client systems.
  • Build scalable AI-native systems using containerization, microservices, serverless, and event-driven architectures.
  • Partner with stakeholders to define use cases and rapidly prototype agentic workflows for complex domains.
  • Conduct design workshops, proofs of concept, and code-with sessions with client stakeholders.
  • Define and monitor metrics for agent accuracy, latency, safety, and cost effectiveness.
  • Utilize AI tools like GitHub Copilot and Claude Code to automate phases of the software development lifecycle.

What we're looking for

  • Minimum of 10 years of experience building cloud-native systems including APIs, microservices, and serverless architectures.
  • Minimum of 1 year of experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in production environments.
  • Minimum of 1 year of experience with agentic orchestration tools such as LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or similar frameworks.
  • Minimum of 10 years of experience with Python, Java, or equivalent programming languages.
  • Experience working with AI platforms including OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, and open-source models.
  • Experience deploying and operating production systems with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability tooling.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent (minimum 12 years of work experience).
  • Associate Degree is acceptable if accompanied by at least 6 years of work experience.

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