AI/ML Computational Science Associate Director

Location: London

Salary: Competitive salary and package dependent on experience

Career Level: Associate Director (CL5)

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology, and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets, and next-generation technology to each business challenge. We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise stewardship, best people, client value creation, one global network, respect for the individual, and integrity.

As a team: Working across industry groups, our Centre for Advanced AI team combines deep technology, business, and industry expertise to design and deliver some of the largest, most challenging, and highest profile technology solutions in the world. You'll work on innovative projects with colleagues to drive collaboration from strategy through to implementation. You will be using the latest technologies, with a particular focus on AI and GenAI, with clients to help them get to the next level.

In our team, you will:

• Help clients use AI/ML technologies to solve business challenges
• Design, develop, deploy, and run high-quality AI/ML solutions across a range of industries with varying business and organizational challenges
• Apply the latest technology solutions from industry and academia to solve real-world customer problems

As an AI/ML Computational Science Associate Director, you will:

• Manage AI/ML Computational Science practice
• Oversee the development of use-case and platform technology solutions to tackle critical business challenges, using both reference and emerging technologies, engineering patterns, AI services, and ML techniques.
• Focus on formulating real-world problems into practical, efficient, and scalable solutions that can appropriately leverage the full AI & ML spectrum, e.g. GenAI, CV NLP, Simulation, LLMs, VLMs, etc.
• Lead multi-disciplinary teams to deliver complex solutions from inception to production and operationalization, ensuring alignment with client needs and technical excellence.
• Provide strategic and technical leadership, shaping technology roadmaps, mentoring other developers, and fostering team growth while ensuring the correct ML & AI architecture and models are used to solve the required problem.
• Play a pivotal role in the Accenture Data & AI community, driving thought leadership by sharing insights and experiences from cutting-edge client projects and research initiatives.

We are looking for significant experience in:

• AI/ML platform technologies and services such as Sagemaker, Vertex, Azure ML, OpenAI, LangChain, AutoML, OCR, STT, feature stores, and vector databases.
• Driving literature reviews, then building proof-of-concepts to validate hypotheses and thus inform AI/ML implementation architectural patterns and best practices for testing and evaluating new models, model combinations, and engineering patterns.
• Designing and deploying robust, scalable, and secure cloud-based solutions on one or more cloud platforms.
• Software Engineering, DevSecOps, and operational excellence in AI/ML solution delivery.

Set yourself apart:

• Proven ability to deliver enterprise-scale AI/ML services that impact end-user experiences and business outcomes.
• Certified cloud Machine Learning credentials (e.g., AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty).
• Experience in leading teams and influencing cross-functional stakeholders in delivering production-grade AI/ML solutions.

What's in it for you: At Accenture, in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 25 days' vacation per year, private medical insurance, and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there may be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.

Closing Date for Applications: 29/03/25. Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found. Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.