Senior AI Engineer

Accenture Digital Core

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

Design, operate and troubleshoot end‑to‑end data and ML pipelines in production environments; 

Integrate and run ML/AI models, ensuring correct handling of inputs, outputs and data changes;

Build and maintain batch and streaming pipelines using Spark / PySpark;

Monitor systems using logs, metrics and alerts, ensuring operational stability; 

Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices for data and ML workloads on Azure;

Collaborate with backend, platform and business teams in distributed environments;

Develop production‑grade solutions using  Python, SQL, JSON/YAML, Git; 

Implement and debug pipelines on Azure (Data Lake, Databricks); 

Use ML experimentation tools (MLflow, Weights & Biases, Databricks ML) and notebooks (e.g. Synapse); 

Ensure idempotent processing, performance profiling and safe re‑runs;

Apply data validation, sanity checks and numerical precision awareness; 

Ensure observability through log and metric interpretation; 

Apply basic access control (RBAC) and secure data handling practices 

Work within regulated environments (Financial Services); 

Participate in Agile delivery, documentation practices and incident awareness; 

Model Lifecycle awareness as well as assumptions & limitations;  

Aware of compliance contraints;

What You Bring

University degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Engineering, or a comparable technical field;

7 to 10 years of relevant work experience;

Experience in data/AI production environments; 

Experience in incident/support environments; 

Experience with Python (production usage), SQL and SQL‑based database systems; 

Knowledge in PySpark / Spark, Azure (Synapse, Data Lake, Databricks) as well as CI/CD and DevOps tools (Azure DevOps, pipelines); 

Understanding of Monitoring tools (logs, alerts); 

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.

Legal: Must own a valid work permit or EU/Schengen Space Nationality to legally work in Portugal

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 Plataforms;

Flex-ability program (financial and flexible support for people with disabilities);

Special banking conditions;

Hybrid working model.