AI-Powered Application Lead — Senior Manager
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About the Role
Accenture seeks an AI-Powered Application Lead to lead cross-functional teams in delivering modern web applications for enterprise clients. The role requires deep full-stack development experience and expertise in AI-native development practices.
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Responsibilities
- Lead end to end solution delivery across multiple workstreams, ensuring alignment with client objectives and Accenture standards.
- Translate business and system requirements into structured technical specifications and guide teams in leveraging AI coding agents for execution.
- Architect and oversee development of scalable applications across the full stack (React/Angular front end, Java/.NET back end).
- Champion AI native development practices and embed them across teams to drive productivity at scale.
- Design and oversee implementation of APIs, integrations, and distributed systems.
- Lead cloud native solution design and delivery (GCP preferred, with AWS/Azure exposure).
- Oversee DevOps practices including CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and observability.
- Partner with client stakeholders, architects, and product teams to deliver high impact solutions.
- Mentor and develop team members while building AI first engineering capabilities.
- Advise clients on adopting AI native software development practices and operating models.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a related field.
- Minimum 8 years of full stack development experience, with strong leadership responsibility.
- Proven experience leading development teams and managing complex delivery programs.
- Strong front end expertise (React, Angular, or similar) with TypeScript proficiency.
- Strong back end expertise (Java or .NET/C#), including API and integration design.
- Demonstrated experience building custom, enterprise grade applications.
- Deep, hands on experience using AI developer tools to deliver production software with improved output and efficiency.
- Strong experience with spec driven development and AI assisted engineering workflows.
- Experience in Agile and DevOps environments with delivery ownership.
- Advanced experience in cloud native architectures (GCP preferred), CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Strong understanding of system design, distributed systems, and integration patterns.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
Full Job Posting
We Are
- Cloud First Software Development is a high performing team focused on enabling client adoption of disruptive technologies, modernizing applications, and delivering scalable, production grade solutions.
You Are
- You are an AI Powered Application Lead with deep experience delivering large scale, custom web applications and leading high performing development teams.
The Work
- Lead end to end solution delivery across multiple workstreams.
- Translate business requirements into technical specifications and guide teams using AI coding agents.
- Architect and oversee development of scalable applications across the full stack.
- Champion AI native development practices.
- Design and oversee implementation of APIs, integrations, and distributed systems.
- Lead cloud native solution design and delivery (GCP preferred).
- Oversee DevOps practices including CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, and observability.
- Partner with client stakeholders, architects, and product teams.
- Mentor and develop team members.
- Advise clients on adopting AI native software development practices.
What You’ll Need
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- Minimum 8 years of full stack development experience with leadership responsibility.
- Proven experience leading development teams and managing complex delivery programs.
- Strong front end expertise (React, Angular) with TypeScript.
- Strong back end expertise (Java or .NET/C#).
- Demonstrated experience building enterprise grade applications.
- Deep hands on experience using AI developer tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor).
- Strong experience with spec driven development and AI assisted engineering workflows.
- Experience in Agile and DevOps environments.
- Advanced experience in cloud native architectures (GCP preferred), CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes.
- Strong understanding of system design, distributed systems, and integration patterns.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
Bonus Points If You Have
- Experience establishing AI native development practices at scale.
- Experience integrating AI/ML services into enterprise applications.
- Expertise in microservices, event driven architectures, and distributed systems.
- Experience with enterprise security and compliance (OAuth, RBAC, data governance).
- Strong background in data architecture, modeling, and integration (SQL/NoSQL).
- Experience contributing to proposals, solution shaping, or client growth initiatives.
Why Join Us?
- Lead high impact, enterprise scale application development initiatives.
- Be at the forefront of AI native software development transformation.
- Shape how teams and clients adopt and scale AI driven engineering practices.
- High ownership role with influence on delivery strategy, architecture, and innovation.
- Opportunity to define and scale modern software engineering at Accenture.
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