2 days ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own and lead large-scale, high-stakes client deployments with accountability for delivery outcomes, client satisfaction, and commercial success.
- Lead multiple deployment teams or complex programmes while ensuring engineering quality, delivery pace, and client outcomes across workstreams.
- Set engagement architecture and tooling direction, oversee implementation quality, and serve as the ultimate technical and client-relations escalation point.
- Advise C-suite and Director-level client stakeholders and build long-term executive relationships.
- Drive AI integration strategies involving agentic workflows, LLM-powered tooling, and AI-native application patterns.
- Shape FDE practice strategy, hiring, capability development, community building, and delivery-model evolution.
- Mentor Senior Managers and engineers and help develop senior engineering talent.
- Create reusable reference implementations, delivery accelerators, onboarding frameworks, and engineering playbooks.
- Support recruitment, capability assessment, proposals, client presentations, business development, and commercial strategy.
- Promote a high-performance engineering culture through knowledge sharing and community building.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading large, complex data and AI delivery programmes in embedded or Forward Deployed engineering environments.
- Experience acting as a trusted technical advisor to C-suite and Director-level stakeholders in complex, high-pressure environments.
- Strong hands-on engineering foundations across modern data and AI platforms, architecture, and implementation.
- Deep experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, dbt, AI development frameworks, and LLM integration patterns.
- Fluency in Python, SQL, and at least one of TypeScript/React or PySpark.
- Experience building and scaling teams or communities of practice, including hiring, developing, and retaining senior engineering talent.
- Exceptional communication, influencing, emotional intelligence, and stakeholder-alignment skills.
- Experience contributing to business development through proposals, senior-client presentations, and identifying engagement-growth opportunities.
- Proactive, impact-driven approach with high standards for delivery, integrity, and real-world outcomes.
- Successful applicants must satisfy BPSS and SC security clearance requirements, including five years of continuous UK address history at the point of application.
Benefits
- Competitive basic salary and an extensive benefits package.
- 30 days of vacation.
- Gym subsidy.
- Private medical insurance.
- Three additional leave days per year for charitable work.
- Flexible and mobile working with time required onsite at clients and partners.
- London-based role with client-site delivery requirements.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Accenture
Accenture is a global professional services firm providing management consulting, systems integration and technology, cybersecurity, and business process outsourcing for enterprises and governments. It operates a services-driven model delivering projects and managed services, often with major cloud and software partners, across industries worldwide. Headquartered in Dublin and publicly traded on the NYSE (ACN), it originated as Andersen Consulting and adopted the Accenture name in 2001.