Accenture

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

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Sydney, Australia +3 moreSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own technical relationships with enterprise clients from initial discovery through production delivery and long-term roadmap development.
  • Run workshops with client stakeholders, including C-suite leaders, to identify and prioritize high-value AI use cases.
  • Design and ship enterprise-grade AI systems, pipelines, agentic workflows, and LLM integrations with enterprise data environments.
  • Set architecture, tooling, and technical direction while making delivery trade-offs.
  • Mentor engineers on both the internal team and client side.
  • Lead incident resolution and complex troubleshooting.
  • Define evaluation frameworks for model quality, safety, and business impact.
  • Implement LLMOps practices including monitoring, observability, and drift detection.
  • Ensure deployments meet enterprise security and compliance requirements.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, solutions architecture, or technical consulting.
  • 3+ years delivering AI/ML or LLM-based solutions in production.
  • Proven experience leading complex, customer-facing technical engagements.
  • Expert-level proficiency in at least one programming language and comfort learning others as needed.
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, API design, observability, and production engineering practices.
  • Hands-on production experience with Claude, GPT, and Gemini, including prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, agentic frameworks, MCP, vector databases, and chunking strategies.
  • Strong experience with at least one major cloud platform and production containerization and orchestration.
  • Experience working across data platforms such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks.
  • Preferred experience in regulated industries, responsible AI, model risk management, open-source contributions, technical publications, evaluation and observability tools, or startup environments.

Benefits

  • 18 weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Long- and short-term career break opportunities.
  • Structured career development and comprehensive technical and professional training.
  • Local and international career opportunities.
  • Family Inclusive Workplace certification and flexible work arrangements.
  • Formal and informal learning through online, classroom, on-the-job, and team-based training.
  • Equal employment opportunity and recruitment-process accommodations are available.

Tech Stack

AWSAzureDatabricksDockerGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformSnowflake

Categories

Forward Deployed
Accenture

About Accenture

10,000+ employees

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.

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