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Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Program/Project Management Lead

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026
No salary listed
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Bachelor's
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Software EngineeringAI Application Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • A minimum of 15 years of experience is required, including 5 or more years in AI or Generative AI.
  • Hands-on enterprise usage of Google Agent Development Kit (ADK).
  • Experience with Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication architectures.
  • Experience with MCP-based or equivalent agent orchestration patterns.
  • Experience with Vertex AI Machine Learning services, including training, prediction, embeddings, pipelines, and evaluation.
  • Experience with Gemini models and Generative AI APIs on Google Cloud.
  • Deep expertise in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), chunking strategies, and retrieval optimization.
  • Experience with Graph RAG or knowledge graph-based reasoning architectures.
  • Experience with advanced prompt engineering, prompt chaining, and orchestration.
  • Experience building autonomous and semi-autonomous agents with tool calling.
  • BTech degree.
Responsibilities
  • Manage overall delivery of a program or project to achieve business outcomes; define project scope and monitor execution of deliverables; communicate across stakeholders to manage expectations, issues, and outcomes.
  • Own end-to-end agentic architecture for enterprise Generative AI platforms using Google ADK and Vertex AI.
  • Define multi-agent and agent-of-agents architectures using A2A communication patterns.
  • Design and operationalize MCP-based orchestration layers for agent lifecycle management, coordination, and governance.
  • Establish reference architectures, design patterns, and reusable frameworks for scalable agent platforms.
  • Architect advanced RAG pipelines, including chunking strategies, embedding selection, retrieval tuning, and re-ranking.
  • Design and implement Graph RAG solutions using knowledge graphs for relationship-aware reasoning and contextual enrichment.
  • Lead Gemini Enterprise implementations, grounding models on first-party enterprise data stores such as BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage, and internal knowledge bases, as well as third-party data sources such as SaaS systems and external content repositories.
  • Define and implement agent observability and monitoring frameworks, including agent execution tracing, tool-call visibility, prompt and response auditing, and latency, cost, and quality metrics.
  • Own agent security architecture, including secure tool access and permissions, policy-based agent behavior, and guardrails for autonomous actions.
  • Drive identity-aware Generative AI architecture, including Workload Identity Federation, federated credentials, and secure access to enterprise systems, APIs, and data stores.
  • Govern adoption of Vertex AI Machine Learning services, including embeddings, model evaluation, pipelines, and inference.
  • Standardize prompt engineering and orchestration techniques, including role prompting, planner–executor patterns, and self-reflection loops.
  • Advise senior stakeholders strategically on embedding agentic AI into enterprise processes.
  • Mentor architects and senior engineers and oversee delivery governance, scalability, and platform reliability.
Desired Qualifications
  • Google Cloud certifications, such as Professional Google Machine Learning services or Cloud AI Engineer.
  • Experience integrating BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage, and Pub/Sub.
  • Experience with enterprise data governance and AI safety frameworks.
  • Experience with GCP Dataflow.

About the company

Accenture advises large businesses and public agencies on strategy, builds their technology systems and runs ongoing operations. Its teams connect business planning with implementation, covering areas such as cloud migration, cybersecurity and customer experience. Consultants work with clients to redesign processes, while engineers integrate software from technology partners and maintain the resulting systems for multinational organizations. Clients pay for project work or continuing services, including application support and business processes such as finance and customer service. Accenture was founded in 1989 and has its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Dublin, Ireland

Founded

1989

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What believers are saying

  • Business demand grew: October 2026 results showed $74.2 billion annual revenue, up 5% in local currency.
  • Eligible US employees buy discounted stock: Accenture's purchase plan sells shares at 15% below market price.
  • Client relationships run deep: Accenture has worked with 195 of its top 200 customers for more than ten years.

What critics are saying

  • Bookings are not guaranteed revenue: most Accenture contracts let clients cancel quickly with little or no penalty.
  • Promotions require AI adoption: Accenture's CEO said in March 2026 that employees must use its tools effectively.
  • Federal hiring practices proved costly: Accenture settled discrimination allegations for $25 million in September 2026, without a liability finding.

What makes Accenture unique

  • Its AI platform switches models: AI Refinery selects among prebuilt models according to cost, performance and other requirements.
  • Accenture owns specialist Microsoft expertise: it cofounded the Microsoft-focused Avanade consultancy with the software maker.
  • Consulting includes creative agencies: Accenture Song owns businesses spanning advertising, digital product design and customer engagement.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Professional Development Budget
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • 401(k) Company Match

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Accenture shares rose about 19% after the consulting firm beat earnings and revenue expectations for its fiscal 2026 year, and guided fiscal 2027 slightly above Wall Street forecasts. Revenue grew 5% in local currency; management expects 3% to 6% growth next year. Non-GAAP operating margin edged up to 15.8%. The stock had dipped below 10 times expected earnings and now trades at about 14 times. Accenture said 65% of new bookings came from outcome-based fixed-price projects, which a Motley Fool contributor called a counterweight to AI's unpredictable costs. Separately, new US Securities and Exchange Commission rules aim to open private assets to retail investors. They raise the performance fee cap for registered advisers, add professional licences as a route to accredited investor status, and give private funds more leeway on redemptions.

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Oct 22nd, 2026
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Oct 21st, 2026
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Oct 16th, 2026
Accenture caps staff AI spending at $29 a month after $1,000 bills

Accenture has capped employee AI spending at $29 (£21.75) a month after some staff ran up bills of $1,000, according to a report by 404 Media. The consulting firm wants to curb runaway costs as employees use AI for more everyday tasks. Companies are typically billed by usage, like a utility. Last week, some staff were told their access to Anthropic's Claude had been pulled entirely. Others are also reining in costs. Uber capped engineers' Claude spending at $1,500 a month after using up its AI budget in four months, while Microsoft has reportedly cut its Claude spending by about a third. The curbs come as Anthropic prepares for a public listing, targeting a valuation as high as $2tn. Investors are reportedly considering about $1.5tn.

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Oct 16th, 2026
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Accenture is shifting AI work from pilots to deeply embedded systems, according to recent deals with UMass Memorial Health, Dell, Microsoft and Workday. The UMass Memorial project is a multi-year AI data platform, while the Dell alliance pitches private AI infrastructure to regulated clients. Analysts expect revenue to grow 5.2% a year over the next three years, with profit margins rising from 11.3% to 11.9%. They forecast earnings of $10.3 billion by 2029, up from $8.4 billion today, on revenue of $86.3 billion. The stock trades at a price-to-earnings ratio of 14.2x, against 21.9x for US IT peers. Risks include slower decision cycles in federal and EMEA work, which could curb consulting demand and margins.