Accenture

Forward Deployed AI Engineer - Senior Manager

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3 days ago
Toronto, Canada +3 moreStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own account-level AI transformation from platform selection and architecture through enterprise adoption and scale.
  • Account for deployment outcomes including time-to-value, reliability, adoption, and ROI.
  • Translate executive strategic intent into production AI systems operating across the enterprise.
  • Define enterprise AI architecture standards and governance across identity, data, security, multi-platform integration, and AI lifecycle management.
  • Advise CTO, CFO, and CISO stakeholders on AI investment strategy, board narratives, and multi-year reinvention roadmaps.
  • Develop reusable deployment frameworks, patterns, playbooks, engineering standards, and capability models.
  • Lead executive workshops, board-level engagements, and cross-functional architecture reviews.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or college diploma in a related field.
  • 10–15 years of engineering experience with cloud-native systems, including APIs, microservices, containerization, and serverless architectures.
  • At least 1 year of experience designing and deploying production agentic solutions involving agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, or workflows.
  • At least 7 years of experience working with AI platforms such as OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, or open-source models.
  • Experience building abstraction layers for multi-provider AI pipelines.
  • 10–15 years of experience leading software engineering teams, including delivery oversight, resource allocation, and direct-report development.
  • Experience owning end-to-end delivery in client-embedded environments and working directly with enterprise clients on AI deployments.
  • Experience defining enterprise AI architecture standards covering identity, data, security, and AI lifecycle management.
  • Experience working with executive stakeholders on AI strategy and investment decisions.
  • Experience leading executive workshops, board-level engagements, or cross-functional architecture reviews.
  • Experience developing reusable deployment frameworks or playbooks and contributing to engineering standards, practice models, or capability frameworks.

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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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