Data Science & (Gen)AI Consultant – Strategy & Consulting Full-time

The work

If you’re passionate about cutting-edge AI technologies and thrive on connecting technical expertise with business value, this role is for you!

As a Generative AI (GenAI) Engineering Consultant, you’ll be part of our Data & AI team within the Strategy & Consulting practice. In this role, you’ll collaborate directly with clients in the Netherlands and occasionally abroad to shape their GenAI vision and implement AI-driven solutions. You’ll act as both the technical expert and the strategic partner for your clients, ensuring that every project bridges the gap between technical innovation and strategic impact. Your work will span from defining GenAI roadmaps, specifying use-cases, advising on advanced GenAI architectures and integrating state-of-the-art technologies to building scalable, production-ready solutions tailored to client needs.

People

• Act as the primary point of contact for clients, guiding them through the adoption of GenAI technologies to address business challenges.
• Build trust and long-term partnerships with stakeholders, translating complex technical concepts into actionable business insights that drive long-term value.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure alignment between client goals and delivered recommendations and solutions.

Processes

• Identify, define and implement workflows that integrate GenAI systems into existing business processes to improve operational excellence.
• Lead the design and development of end-to-end GenAI solutions, including data preparation, model development, and deployment.
• Drive the operationalization of AI models, ensuring scalability, reliability, and compliance with best practices.

Technology and Data

• Stay at the forefront of GenAI advancements, integrating innovations into client projects to maintain competitive edges.
• Design and implement scalable Generative AI solutions using the latest frameworks and cloud platforms.
• Optimize the usage of large language models (LLMs) and other generative technologies for client-specific applications, such as content creation, customer interaction, and predictive analysis.

With all our roles, there is in-person time for collaboration, learning and building relationships with clients, peers, leaders, and communities. As an employer, we will be as flexible as possible to support your specific work/life needs.

Who we are – Accenture Strategy & Consulting

Accenture Strategy & Consulting

In today’s world, business leaders want to reinvent rapidly and confidently to increase resilience, mitigate risk, and grow with sustainable value. That’s where Accenture Strategy & Consulting comes in. We bring together strategic visionaries, industry experts, practitioners from across every enterprise function, business intelligence professionals, change specialists, data and AI authorities, and many other specialized skills to co-create each client’s unique path to reinvention. You will be a trusted partner to business leaders, working with a diverse team of experts to deliver successful tech-enabled transformation and new kinds of value for your clients. Join our global network of people using the latest assets, platforms and partnerships to help bring ideas to life.

Accenture Data & AI is driving these exciting changes across 40 industries and in more than 120 countries, covering skills that range from strategy development to data science professionalization. Our advice is based on best practice and situational analysis and enables our clients to act with speed and confidence. Whether we are investigating complex issues or identifying new opportunities, our work always comes down to one thing: unlocking value and creating real, tangible impact.

Strategy & Consulting is one of six services that make up one Accenture – the others are Operations, Technology, Song, Industry X and Security

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Here’s what you’ll need

• 3+ years of experience in data science, data engineering or machine learning roles, on the intersection of business strategy and deploying scalable (Gen)AI solutions.
• You have demonstrated ability to bridge the gap between technical teams and business stakeholders.
• A master’s degree in a quantitative or technical field (e.g., Computer Science, AI, Data Science, Mathematics, or Engineering) with a focus on data and/or AI.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python and SQL, and familiarity with frameworks like LangChain, or Hugging Face.
• Strong understanding of machine learning techniques, with a particular focus on generative models (e.g., transformers, LLMs) and the transformer architecture.
• Experience in building RAG systems in production environments.
• Clear vision of use cases with GenAI across industries and functions.
• Familiar with Git, DevOps principles, command line, Spark and Docker.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical topics for non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven stakeholder management expertise, ensuring alignment and buy-in throughout the project lifecycle.

This role offers the perfect blend of hands-on technical expertise and strategy consulting, ideal for professionals passionate about the transformative power of GenAI. If you’re ready to lead innovation and create value with AI, we’d love to hear from you!

What’s in it for you?

Accenture is a global company with a world-class brand and reputation. Our people are Change Makers, and to support them as an employer, we make five promises:

• Work with flexibility, in a culture based on trust.
• Embrace a sustainable growth mindset.
• Live a human-led culture of Inclusion & Diversity by caring deeply for all our people.
• Lead and transform our clients with technology.
• Connect with our global network of 700.000 colleagues.

These promises are reflected through our excellent employee benefits, including:

• Unlimited learning: access to thousands of free courses, classes and workshops.
• Flexible working hours (4×9) & work location and FlexDay; a flexible day you can take off to celebrate what matters to you – from EidalFitr to a birthday.
• Paid leave: Parental leave, Partner leave for all non-birthing parents, Bereavement leave, and Gender affirmation leave.
• Paid transport (budget for electric bicycle or car, NS-Business card)
• A laptop, iPhone, and home office setup allowance
• Pension scheme, Accenture shares, annual bonus, collective health insurance scheme
• ‘Do Good’ volunteering program
• Social activities like Friday Drinks, sport events and parties

What we believe

Accenture is an equal opportunity employer. Our leaders are committed to building a better, stronger and more equitable company for future generations to create positive, long-lasting change. Inclusion and diversity are fundamental to our culture and core values. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative and creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.

Our position as partner to many of the world’s leading businesses, organizations and governments affords us both an extraordinary opportunity and a tremendous responsibility to make a difference. Sustainability is one of our greatest responsibilities, which we embed it into everything we do and for everyone we work with.

Accenture is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all. Please let us know if you require reasonable accommodation to enable your participation in the recruitment process by emailing Dorine.Hogendorp@accenture.com. We will be happy to assist you.

About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance services-creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 774,000 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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