AI Native Development Lead

The Advanced Technology Centers (ATCs) is the engine for reinvention in our clients’ transformation journey. Powered by more than 255,000
* people across 24 countries, ATCs will provide our clients with seamless access to industry insights and innovative technology solutions. The Advanced Technology Centers (ATCs) make tremendous impact in solving our clients’ business problems leveraging Innovation, Intelligence, Industry insights, new IT and new technology skills. As a Network, ATCs are positioned to unlock greater opportunities and exponential value for our clients. The value for our clients and our people For our clients, the Network provides the strength of our geographic diversity, greater resilience, and seamless access to the deepest industry knowledge, the latest in Gen AI solutions, and tech expertise from around the world. An AI Native Development Lead with experience building cloud-native solutions, and deep expertise in designing and deploying agentic systems, especially for enterprise environments. You are a critical thinker that thrives in ambiguity, delivering concrete results by designing, building, and running custom AI agents that augment workflows and scale across modern infrastructure. You’ll help shape the playbook for how enterprises adopt and scale AI-native development globally. Often, these will be completely net new platforms and systems that need to be stitched together in our clients' environments alongside our Ecosystem partners. Design and develop enterprise-ready AI agents encompassing retrieval, orchestration, policy-based routing, tool invocation, evaluation harnesses, and lifecycle observability. AI Platform Integration: Develop abstraction layers across AI providers (Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, etc. ) Cloud-Native Development: Leverage containerization (Kubernetes, Docker), microservices, serverless, event-driven architectures, CI/CD, and observability to deliver scalable AI-native systems. Client Engagement: Conduct design workshops, POCs, and code-with sessions to shape data-driven agent workflows with stakeholders, fostering trust and adoption. Define and use key metrics, test harnesses, and evaluation plans to measure agent accuracy, latency, safety, and cost effectiveness. Craft reusable patterns, documentation, and best practices to influence internal assets and client roadmaps This role will require a minimum of 3 days per week in the office. Minimum of 3 years development experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containerization, serverless). Minimum of 3 years experience with AI platforms — OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, plus open-source models — including building abstraction layers to manage multi-provider pipelines. Minimum of 5 years experience programming in Python, Java, or equivalent; familiarity with evaluation tooling, logging, monitoring, and agent observability. Minimum of 5 years experience deploying to production — CI/CD, infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm), monitoring, and debugging. Minimum of 5 years experience with client communication and collaboration, including being capable of leading technical workshops and delivering under ambiguity. Bachelor’s degree or completion of a college program in a related discipline. English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with English-speaking stakeholders across Canada. Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below. 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. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin