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.
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