AI Native Software Engineering Manager

$80,400–$305,000annualizedArlington, VA · Milwaukee, WI · +35 moreArlington, VA +36On-siteSenior3mo ago

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About the job

This is a client-facing engineering manager role at Accenture, focused on designing and deploying enterprise-grade AI agents and agentic workflows.

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What you’ll do

Design and engineer enterprise-ready AI agents encompassing retrieval, orchestration, policy-based routing, tool invocation, evaluation harnesses, and lifecycle observability.
Develop abstraction layers across AI providers (Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, etc.) to enable seamless integration.
Leverage containerization (Kubernetes, Docker), microservices, serverless, event-driven architectures, CI/CD, and observability to deliver scalable AI-native systems.
Tailor and deploy agentic applications across verticals such as finance, healthcare, and retail.

What you’ll bring

Minimum 3 years engineering experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containerization, serverless).
Minimum 1 year expertise in designing and deploying agentic solutions (agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, workflows) in production environments.
Minimum 3 years experience with AI platforms — OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, plus open-source models.
Minimum 5 years experience programming in Python, Java, or equivalent.

Technologies

Kubernetes · Docker · Terraform · Helm · Python · Java · OpenAI · Claude · Vertex AI · RAG · CI/CD

About Accenture

Accenture helps enterprises and governments reinvent strategy, technology, operations and customer growth through global consulting, managed services, AI/data, cloud and ecosystem partnerships.

Public · 5000+ people

Pay and conditions

Posted pay: $80,400–$305,000Annualized in US dollars
Pay details
California $94,400 to $305,000 Cleveland $87,400 to $244,000 Colorado $94,400 to $263,500 District of Columbia $100,500 to $280,600 Illinois $87,400 to $263,500 Maine $80,400 to $224,500 Maryland $94,400 to $263,500 Massachusetts $94,400 to $280,600 Minnesota $94,400 to $263,500 New York $87,400 to $305,000 New Jersey $100,500 to $305,000 Virginia $87,400 to $280,600 Washington $100,500 to $280,600
Location: Arlington, VA · Milwaukee, WI · +35 more
Work arrangement: On-site
Employment type: Full-time
Visa sponsorship: Not available
Experience requirements: 3+ years

The work, as we read it

Kind of work: Builds what the customer runs

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How this compares

The middle of this range is $193,000, close to the $196,000 median for the 1,766 US FDE postings that state one. Half of those sit between $162,000 and $230,000.

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