Role: AI Senior Engineer- Senior Manager

Location: London Salary: Competitive salary and package dependent on experience Career Level: Senior Manager (CL6)

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

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As a team:

Working across industry groups, our Data & AI team combines deep technology, business and industry expertise to design and deliver some of the largest, most challenging and highest profile technology solutions in the world.

You'll work on innovative projects with colleagues to drive collaboration from strategy through to implementation. You will be using the latest technologies, with a particular focus on AI and GenAI, with clients to help them get to the next level.

You'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways.

If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you. As part of our team, you'll be working with cutting-edge technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.

Your background will involve contributing across projects including data engineering, technology architecture solution implementation, product selection and application strategy definition, or the introduction of technology to drive business improvement into an operational organisation.

Our team has the remit to operate in multiple industries, including Financial Services, Resources, Products, Communications and Health & Public Services.

In our team, you will:

• Help clients harness data and AI technologies to solve business challenges, through the delivery of complex data programmes

• Help clients design, develop, deploy, and run high quality data engineering and AI solutions across a range of industries with varying business and organisational challenges

• Work with latest technology solutions from industry and academia and learn how to apply them to solve real world customer problems

As a AI Senior Engineer (Senior Manager), you will:

• Lead the design and implementation of Microsoft Azure AI and Generative AI solutions.

• Develop enterprise solutions using Microsoft Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Azure Machine Learning and Azure services.

• Design and implement RAG, vector search, AI agents and LLM-based applications.

• Integrate AI solutions with enterprise data, applications and APIs.

• Establish AI engineering, security, governance, monitoring and responsible AI practices.

• Lead technical teams and mentor AI engineers and developers.

• Work with senior client stakeholders to translate business requirements into AI solutions.

• Support architecture, solution shaping, proposals and business

• Oversee the development of use-case and platform technology solutions to tackle critical business challenges, using both reference and emerging technologies, engineering patterns, and AI Services.

• Play a pivotal role in the Accenture Data & AI community, driving thought leadership by sharing insights and experiences from cutting-edge client projects and research initiatives.

We are looking for significant experience in:

• Experience of technology/software engineering experience with strong AI expertise.

• Proven experience delivering enterprise AI/Generative AI solutions.

• Strong Microsoft Azure and Azure OpenAI/Microsoft Foundry experience.

• Hands-on experience with Python, APIs, RAG, LLMs, vector databases/search and AI agents.

• Strong understanding of AI security, governance and responsible AI.

• Experience leading engineering teams and large-scale technology programmes.

• Excellent client-facing and stakeholder-management skills.

• Consulting or large enterprise experience is desirable.

• Strong client-facing, communication and stakeholder-management skills.

• Complex programme planning and delivery in the data and AI domains

What will set you apart:

• Proven ability to deliver enterprise-scale data and AI services that impact end-user experiences and business outcomes.

• Certified cloud credentials (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional).

• Experience in leading teams and influencing cross-functional stakeholders in delivering production-grade data and AI solutions.

What’s in it for you

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there may be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.

About Accenture

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Interactive, Technology and Operations services—all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our +700,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

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About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

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