Senior data & ai solution architect

Description

At Accenture Digital Core, we help clients continuously innovate at speed and at scale, combining deep industry expertise with cutting-edge technology to deliver meaningful transformation. You will bring innovation, intelligence and experience together to shape robust, secure and scalable digital solutions.

What You’ll Do

• Serves as a connector between business needs and technical delivery, designing scalable, cloud-native architectures that leverage data engineering, AI/ML, and Generative AI (GenAI) to deliver business value.
• Coordinate execution between local and international teams.
• Ensure alignment with platform architecture and governance.
• Oversee data quality, observability and performance standards.
• Support delivery planning, risk management and escalation.
• Design and validate end-to-end data and AI solutions.
• Act as a technical bridge between business and engineering teams.
• Design end-to-end AI and data solutions on cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) leveraging modern tools like Databricks or Snowflake.
• Design AI-enabled workflows involving agentic logic, prompting, and human-in-the-loop steps.
• Define data pipelines, storage, and lakehouse architectures.
• Conduct and develop AI solution to validate design concepts, using low-code/no-code or full-code platforms (e.g., Python/Scala).
• End-to-end system and data flow design.
• Observability, monitoring and incident awareness.
• Stakeholder alignment and expectation management.
• Delivery tracking, prioritization and reporting.

Requirements

• University degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Engineering, or a comparable technical field.
• More than 10 years of relevant work experience.
• Relevant team lead experience and lead responsibilities.
• Experience in stakeholder management.
• Proven experience with Databricks, Spark, and MLOps tools (e.g., MLflow).
• Familiarity with LLMs, Agentic frameworks (e.g., LangChain), and RAG architectures.
• Experience in regulated environments (FS).
• Professional English (C1 Level required in spoken and written).
• French or Dutch is a plus.
• Effective communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong collaboration skills within distributed and cross-functional teams.
• Proactive mindset with a high sense of ownership and accountability.
• Structured approach to incident and problem management.
• Ability to prioritize workload efficiently in a dynamic environment.

What We Offer

• Health insurance.
• Life Insurance and Pension Plan Programs.
• Free medical services at the office (Physician, Nutritionist, Psychologist).
• Wellness programs.
• Flexben Program (Support for Education, Kindergarden, Training, Technology, Health).
• Employee Share Purchase Plan.
• Personalized training paths and access to Udemy and Plurisight Platforms.
• Flex-ability program (financial and flexible support for people with disabilities).
• Special banking conditions.
• Hybrid working model.

Locations

Lisbon

Additional Information

Accenture is governed by the principles of meritocracy and equality of opportunity, not discriminating or tolerating any discrimination based on ancestry, ethnic origin, race, color, sex, marital status, country of origin, education level, social position, sexual orientation, religion, beliefs and/or political or ideological choices, economic or social situation, or based on any other factor considered discriminatory and prohibited by law.

About Accenture

We work with one shared purpose: to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity. Every day, more than 775,000 of us help our stakeholders continuously reinvent. Together, we drive positive change and deliver value to our clients, partners, shareholders, communities, and each other.

We believe that delivering value requires innovation, and innovation thrives in an inclusive and diverse environment. We actively foster a workplace free from bias, where everyone feels a sense of belonging and is respected and empowered to do their best work.

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