Data Platform Engineer

About the role

For this exciting position within our AI and Data team, we are seeking

an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to build, enhance and optimise core

components of the AI & Data Platform across AI/ML and Agentic AI. This includes AI/ML platform services, model and agent deployment infrastructure, data pipelines, APIs and integrations, developer enablement, and platform automation, with a strong focus on scalability, security, reliability, observability, cost efficiency and reuse.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the configuration and management of cloud-native and hybrid environments, including Azure, Microsoft Foundry, Azure ML, Snowflake, Databricks and Fabric, ensuring platform reliability, observability, security, scalability and cost efficiency.
• Build and enhance Agentic AI platform capabilities using Microsoft Foundry and related Azure services, enabling teams to securely develop, test, deploy and operate enterprise AI agents.
• Contribute to MLOps, DevOps and AI platform engineering, including model and agent lifecycle management, CI/CD, evaluation, deployment automation, observability, guardrails and production operations.
• Design and implement Infrastructure as Code, automation and self-service platform patterns using Terraform, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Kubernetes/AKS and cloud-native services.
• Implement and advocate for platform-level security controls across AI/ML and Agentic AI, including identity and access, agent/tool authorisation, private networking, secrets management, encryption, security monitoring and vulnerability management.
• Build platform observability across models, agents, tools and workflows, supporting operational monitoring, performance, reliability, cost management and troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, AI engineers, platform engineers, Cyber, Architecture and product teams.

Benefits of working at Accenture:

· 18 weeks paid parental leave

· Long & short-term career break opportunities

· Structured career development program

· Local and international career opportunities.

· Certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace™

· Flexible Work Arrangements - centered around Accenture’s Truly Human ethos and our commitment to supporting the health and wellbeing of our people.

· We are proud to be in the top 3 of last year’s Diversity & Inclusion Index!

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Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services-creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Statement for Australia:

At Accenture, our intention is to foster a culture and a workplace in which all of our people feel a sense of belonging and are respected and empowered to do their best work.

As part of our talent strategy, we hire and develop people who have different backgrounds, different perspectives and different lived experiences. These differences ensure that we have and attract the cognitive diversity to deliver a variety of perspectives, observations and insights which are essential to drive the innovation needed to reinvent, and we hold our leaders accountable for ensuring we have the most innovative and talented people in our industry.

We encourage applications from all people, and we are committed to removing barriers to the recruitment process and employee lifecycle. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, religion or sexual orientation and we do not tolerate discrimination. If you require adjustments to the recruitment process or have a preferred communication method, please email [email protected] and cite the relevant Job Number, or contact us on +61 2 9005 5000.

Learn how Accenture protects your personal data and know your rights in relation to your personal data. Read more about our Privacy Statement