3 days ago
Lisbon, PortugalSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and implement agentic development workflows, tools, and automation across the SDLC.
- Develop and integrate production-ready AI agents using orchestration, tool use, MCP, and context engineering.
- Build evaluation frameworks, guardrails, automated quality checks, and monitoring mechanisms for reliable agent behavior.
- Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and developer tooling.
- Integrate AI-powered workflows with enterprise engineering platforms, including Jira, source control systems, and CI/CD platforms.
- Build scalable platform capabilities that enable engineering teams to safely adopt AI-assisted development.
- Develop reusable components, APIs, CLIs, and workflow automation for AI-enabled engineering processes.
- Implement observability and operational controls for production AI agents.
- Evaluate emerging agentic AI technologies for enterprise production use.
- Collaborate with Software Engineering, Platform, DevOps, Architecture, and Product teams on technical decisions.
- Act as a technical reference for agentic engineering and contribute to platform architecture decisions.
- Identify SDLC bottlenecks and implement automation that improves productivity, reliability, and software delivery efficiency.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience, including senior or technical leadership responsibilities.
- Hands-on experience designing, building, and deploying AI agents in real-world production environments.
- Strong experience with agent orchestration, tool use, context engineering, MCP servers, and agent evaluation.
- Proficiency in Python and TypeScript.
- Strong background in platform engineering, DevOps, and CI/CD.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably GCP or equivalent platforms such as Azure or AWS.
- Hands-on Infrastructure as Code experience, particularly Terraform or equivalent technologies.
- Experience developing internal developer platforms, CLIs, workflow engines, or engineering automation solutions.
- Understanding of the end-to-end SDLC, including requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, and production operations.
- Hands-on experience using agentic coding tools in day-to-day software engineering.
- Ability to independently evaluate technical alternatives, own complex technical challenges, and drive implementation.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- English proficiency at C1 level or higher.
- Preferred experience with Cursor, Claude Code, or similar agentic coding tools.
- Preferred knowledge of Knowledge Graphs, static analysis, code intelligence, or program analysis tooling.
Benefits
- Hybrid working model.
- Work location in Lisbon, Braga, or Coimbra.
- Must hold a valid work permit or EU/Schengen nationality to work legally in Portugal.
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About Accenture
Accenture is a global professional services firm providing management consulting, systems integration and technology, cybersecurity, and business process outsourcing for enterprises and governments. It operates a services-driven model delivering projects and managed services, often with major cloud and software partners, across industries worldwide. Headquartered in Dublin and publicly traded on the NYSE (ACN), it originated as Andersen Consulting and adopted the Accenture name in 2001.