Senior Manager / Associate Director, AI-Native Software Engineering

We are: A forward-thinking services company at the forefront of AI-native innovation. We partner with enterprise clients to create next-generation, agent-powered workflows engineered to scale in real-world settings. Our engineers embed deeply with customers, moving projects beyond experimentation into operational reality. You are: Forward Deployed AI Engineers form the execution spine of our Reinvention Deployment Engineering pods. We are building the largest FDE capability in the services industry. The engineers who join at this stage will define what the role looks like at scale and will have access to the hardest enterprise AI problems in the market across every industry. 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 engineering globally. The Work: This is not a consulting role. It is not a project delivery role. It is not a research position. A Forward Deployed AI Engineer is a production engineer who works embedded inside a client's enterprise, shoulder to shoulder with their teams, to make complex AI platforms work in real, messy organizational environments. You own outcomes: time-to-value, adoption, reliability, and scalability. Not delivery milestones. Outcomes. The market is beginning to understand what leading technology companies have demonstrated: AI products fail not because the models are weak but because deployment is broken. The gap between a successful AI pilot and an AI capability that scales is bridged by engineers who can translate platform capability into measurable business value inside a real enterprise environment. That is this role. Key Responsibilities Lead enterprise AI platform deployments across complex multi-stakeholder client environments — Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, SAP, or Palantir — owning the full program from architecture through adoption Own program-level delivery outcomes: time-to-value, reliability, adoption velocity, and scalability across multiple concurrent workstreams, with commercial metrics attached Lead rapid experimentation at pace: drive ambiguous business problems to working production systems in days or weeks across complex enterprise environments Architect and govern enterprise AI solutions across the full technology stack: identity, data, security, governance, platform layer, and multi-system workflow integration at program scale Shape AI reinvention strategy for client CTO, CFO, and CISO: build value architecture, ROI backlogs, use case prioritization frameworks, and multi-year AI adoption roadmaps Define and publish reusable reinvention blueprints, patterns, and accelerators that scale across multiple client engagements and grow the FDE practice Lead architecture design sessions, executive workshops, and code-with sessions with client engineering and C-suite leadership teams Codify delivery learnings, failure patterns, and engineering standards that shape the FDE practice and enable the next generation of forward deployed engineers Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements. Accenture Edge for AWS is seeking a Tech Practice Leader – Migration and Modernization to build and lead the practice serving mid-market companies up to $3B in annual revenue. This leader owns the practice vision, portfolio, technical standards, solution architecture, delivery model, reusable assets, talent strategy, and governance required to assess, migrate, modernize, optimize, and operate customer workloads on AWS with enterprise-grade quality and mid-market speed. The ideal candidate combines hands-on AWS architecture credibility with migration-factory leadership, application and database modernization expertise, field CTO-style customer engagement, presales solutioning, and delivery governance. This role is accountable for creating repeatable offerings across discovery and assessment, landing zones, VMware and data center migration, application and database modernization, containers, serverless, DevOps, cloud operations, resilience, security, and FinOps. Key Responsibilities Build and lead the practice: Define the migration and modernization strategy, services portfolio, investment priorities, operating model, delivery capacity, and growth roadmap. Own portfolio and solution quality: Lead offerings across discovery and assessment, migration planning, landing zones, VMware and data center exits, application and database migration, replatforming, refactoring, containers, serverless, DevOps, resilience, security, FinOps, and managed services transition. Own bookings and revenue growth: Carry direct accountability for $50M–$100M in annual practice bookings and revenue, partner with sales leaders and AWS field teams to originate and qualify opportunities, shape value propositions, and convert technical workshops and assessments into migration, modernization, and managed-services pipeline. Lead strategic pursuits: Act as the senior technical and commercial sponsor for priority deals, owning discovery, solution differentiation, estimation, risk, executive presentations, proposal quality, and technical close. Activate AWS co-sell and Marketplace: Create packaged solutions that are easy for AWS sellers to position, support ACE opportunity progression, use applicable funding and incentives, and develop AWS Marketplace-ready offers with clear scope, price, outcomes, and procurement paths. Build market demand: Create account-based campaigns, executive briefings, immersion days, workshops, assessments, and industry-specific sales plays focused on VMware exits, data center migration, application modernization, secure cloud foundations, optimization, and managed services. Establish thought leadership: Develop differentiated points of view on migrate-first strategies, continuous modernization, legacy and VMware transformation, cloud economics, AI-assisted modernization, and operating-model change for mid-market customers. Represent the practice externally: Publish articles and research-backed perspectives; speak at customer, analyst, industry, and AWS events; lead webinars and roundtables; and build relationships with CIO, CTO, CISO, infrastructure, application, and operations leaders. Turn delivery outcomes into growth assets: Capture customer references, case studies, quantified benefits, patterns, and lessons learned to improve credibility, cross-sell, repeatability, and win rates. Serve as senior technical sponsor: Lead executive technology discussions, architecture workshops, modernization roadmaps, and technical decision-making for priority customers and strategic pursuits. Scale migration and modernization factories: Establish repeatable assessment, wave-planning, automation, cutover, testing, validation, and post-migration optimization methods. Ensure delivery readiness: Set clear scope, architecture, staffing, pricing assumptions, acceptance criteria, dependencies, risks, and measurable outcomes before handoff. Develop technical talent: Build capability frameworks, certification paths, communities of practice, and mentoring models for architects, engineers, and delivery leads. Govern quality and risk: Establish architecture reviews, AWS Well-Architected discipline, security-by-design, delivery assurance, escalation, and technical debt management. Improve repeatability: Convert successful programs into packaged offerings, reference architectures, automation, playbooks, templates, and managed-services runbooks. Drive practice performance: Own annual bookings and revenue attainment, and track practice-sourced and influenced pipeline, conversion, win rate, Marketplace activity, utilization, margin, delivery productivity, solution reuse, customer references, thought-leadership reach, certification progress, customer satisfaction, and offering adoption. Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 25% to 100% depending on business need and client requirements. What You Need: Minimum of 10 years engineering experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containerization, serverless). Minimum of 1 years of deep expertise in designing and deploying agentic solutions (agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, workflows) in production environments. Minimum of 2 years of experience with AI platforms — OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, plus open-source models — including building abstraction layers to manage multi-provider pipelines. Minimum of 10 years of experience programming in Python, Java, or equivalent; familiarity with evaluation tooling, logging, monitoring, and agent observability. Minimum of 10 years of experience deploying to production — CI/CD, infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm), monitoring, and debugging. Minimum of 10 years of experience in client communication and collaboration, including being capable of leading technical workshops and delivering under ambiguity. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent or (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience), AI certifications or agentic tool experience is a plus. Bonus Points If: You’ve served as an Agentic AI Engineer in an Enterprise environment You’ve defined or worked with enterprise-grade architectures for compound AI systems, orchestration frameworks, or agent registry/stream-based architectures. You understand the AI-native paradigm — blending cloud-native with generative model architectures — optimizing for performance, modularity, and efficiency. You’ve delivered solutions across multiple industries (e.g., finance, healthcare) by tailoring agentic workflows to industry needs. 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 for roles that may be hired as set forth below. We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 10/16/2026. Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here: U.S. Employee Benefits | Accenture Role Location Annual Salary Range California $132,500 to $366,300 Colorado $132,500 to $316,400 Connecticut $132,500 to $316,400 District of Columbia $141,100 to $337,000 Illinois $122,700 to $316,400 Maine $112,900 to $269,600 Maryland $132,500 to $316,400 Massachusetts $132,500 to $337,000 Minnesota $132,500 to $316,400 New York $122,700 to $366,300 New Jersey $141,100 to $366,300 Ohio $122,700 to $293,000 Virginia $122,700 to $337,000 Washington $141,100 to $337,000 Requesting an Accommodation Accenture is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for persons with disabilities or religious observances, including reasonable accommodation when needed. If you are hired by Accenture and require accommodation to perform the essential functions of your role, you will be asked to participate in our reasonable accommodation process. Accommodations made to facilitate the recruiting process are not a guarantee of future or continued accommodations once hired. If you would like to be considered for employment opportunities with Accenture and have accommodation needs such as for a disability or religious observance, please call us toll free at 1 (877) 889-9009 or send us an email or speak with your recruiter. Equal Employment Opportunity Statement We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences. All employment decision Required Qualifications Minimum 15+ years of experience in cloud architecture, technology consulting, platform engineering, systems integration, or transformation delivery, including 8+ years in hands-on AWS migration, modernization, architecture, engineering, or operations. Minimum 5+ years leading and scaling a migration, modernization, cloud platform, application transformation, or infrastructure practice, including teams of 25–50 architects, engineers, consultants, delivery leads, or managed-services professionals. Proven accountability for $50M–$100M in annual AWS migration, modernization, managed-services, or technology-enabled bookings and revenue, with demonstrated ability to create or influence $100M–$200M in qualified annual pipeline. Experience solutioning, governing, or delivering at least 15 AWS migration or modernization engagements, including senior technical sponsorship for at least 5 strategic customer accounts or transformation programs. Minimum 5+ years expertise in AWS migration and modernization architecture, including landing zones, networking, security, resilience, DevOps, containers, serverless, databases, storage, observability, and FinOps. Minimum 5+ years experience leading complex pursuits and executive workshops, translating business outcomes into pragmatic migration waves, modernization roadmaps, commercial models, and risk-controlled delivery plans. Minimum 5+ years experience in Executive-level communication and field CTO credibility with CIO, CTO, CISO, engineering, operations, and finance leaders. Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience) Preferred Experience Experience leading technical governance for 10+ large-scale cloud programs, including architecture quality, cutover readiness, risk mitigation, delivery assurance, and executive alignment. Experience contributing to 10+ strategic pursuits, RFPs, executive workshops, or deal-shaping efforts annually. Experience launching 3+ go-to-market sales plays or packaged offerings and enabling sellers with qualification criteria, discovery guides, business cases, pricing models, and customer proof points. Experience with VMware, Windows, SAP, mainframe, database, and application modernization pathways on AWS. Experience establishing reusable migration playbooks, reference architectures, automation templates, modernization patterns, or managed-services runbooks. Experience building a newly formed practice, service line, cloud center of excellence, or incubation business, including talent development and AWS certification growth. Familiarity with AWS partner programs, ACE, AWS Marketplace, funding mechanisms, competencies, migration incentives, and packaged or outcome-based commercial models. Published thought leadership, strong customer references, and relevant certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, or AWS Certified Security – Specialty. Success Measures Launch at least 4–6 repeatable migration and modernization offerings, reference architectures, or accelerators within the first 12 months. Support $50M–$100M in annual AWS migration, modernization, and managed services bookings or delivery portfolio. Create or influence at least $100M–$200M in annual qualified pipeline while supporting a qualified-pursuit win rate of at least 30%–35%. Launch at least 3 repeatable sales plays and progress at least 20 AWS co-sell, ACE, Marketplace, or partner-referred opportunities annually. Deliver at least 8 executive workshops, customer roundtables, or industry briefings annually that generate qualified follow-on opportunities. Publish or present at least 4 significant thought-leadership assets annually and secure at least 2 new customer references or case studies. Maintain 95% or higher milestone attainment, 4.5/5 or higher customer satisfaction, and critical escalations below 5% of active engagements. Improve estimation accuracy, migration velocity, automation, solution reuse, and transition quality from sales to delivery. Grow AWS-certified migration and modernization talent by at least 25% year over year or create at least 25 new certifications annually. Serve as recognized technical and market leader in at least 5 priority accounts or strategic deals annually. Ideal Candidate Profile The ideal Tech Practice Leader – Migration and Modernization is a proven AWS transformation leader who can build a practice while remaining credible in architecture and delivery. They can move fluidly between executive advisory, migration strategy, modernization architecture, factory execution, commercial shaping, talent development, and delivery governance. They bring the discipline to turn complex transformation programs into repeatable, scalable, high-quality offerings for mid-market customers. Experience leading technical governance for 10+ large-scale cloud programs, including architecture quality, cutover readiness, risk mitigation, delivery assurance, and executive alignment. Experience contributing to 10+ strategic pursuits, RFPs, executive workshops, or deal-shaping efforts annually. Experience launching 3+ go-to-market sales plays or packaged offerings and enabling sellers with qualification criteria, discovery guides, business cases, pricing models, and customer proof points. Experience with VMware, Windows, SAP, mainframe, database, and application modernization pathways on AWS. Experience establishing reusable migration playbooks, reference architectures, automation templates, modernization patterns, or managed-services runbooks. Experience building a newly formed practice, service line, cloud center of excellence, or incubation business, including talent development and AWS certification growth. Familiarity with AWS partner programs, ACE, AWS Marketplace, funding mechanisms, competencies, migration incentives, and packaged or outcome-based commercial models. Published thought leadership, strong customer references, and relevant certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, or AWS Certified Security – Specialty. Launch at least 4–6 repeatable migration and modernization offerings, reference architectures, or accelerators within the first 12 months. Support $50M–$100M in annual AWS migration, modernization, and managed services bookings or delivery portfolio. Create or influence at least $100M–$200M in annual qualified pipeline while supporting a qualified-pursuit win rate of at least 30%–35%. Launch at least 3 repeatable sales plays and progress at least 20 AWS co-sell, ACE, Marketplace, or partner-referred opportunities annually. Deliver at least 8 executive workshops, customer roundtables, or industry briefings annually that generate qualified follow-on opportunities. Publish or present at least 4 significant thought-leadership assets annually and secure at least 2 new customer references or case studies. Maintain 95% or higher milestone attainment, 4.5/5 or higher customer satisfaction, and critical escalations below 5% of active engagements. Improve estimation accuracy, migration velocity, automation, solution reuse, and transition quality from sales to delivery. Grow AWS-certified migration and modernization talent by at least 25% year over year or create at least 25 new certifications annually. Serve as recognized technical and market leader in at least 5 priority accounts or strategic deals annually. 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 for roles that may be hired as set forth below. We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 10/17/2026. Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here: U.S. Employee Benefits | Accenture Role Location Annual Salary Range California $163,000 to $369,800 Colorado $163,000 to $319,500 Connecticut $163,000 to $319,500 District of Columbia $173,500 to $340,200 Illinois $150,900 to $319,500 Maine $138,800 to $272,100 Maryland $163,000 to $319,500 Massachusetts $163,000 to $340,200 Minnesota $163,000 to $319,500 New York $150,900 to $369,800 New Jersey $173,500 to $369,800 Ohio $150,900 to $295,800 Virginia $150,900 to $340,200 Washington $173,500 to $340,200 Requesting an Accommodation Accenture is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for persons with disabilities or religious observances, including reasonable accommodation when needed. If you are hired by Accenture and require accommodation to perform the essential functions of your role, you will be asked to participate in our reasonable accommodation process. Accommodations made to facilitate the recruiting process are not a guarantee of future or continued accommodations once hired. If you would like to be considered for employment opportunities with Accenture and have accommodation needs such as for a disability or religious observance, please call us toll free at 1 (877) 889-9009 or send us an email or speak with your recruiter. Equal Employment Opportunity Statement We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities. 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