Accenture

Forward Deployed Solutions Lead

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Toronto, Canada +3 moreStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, deploy, and support enterprise Agentic AI solutions on Microsoft Azure.
  • Develop AI agents with Microsoft Foundry/Azure AI services and Copilot Studio, including orchestration workflows, grounding, and tool-calling integrations.
  • Build and troubleshoot Model Context Protocol servers and tools and connect agents to enterprise applications, APIs, operational systems, and data sources.
  • Use Microsoft Fabric for data integration, engineering, analytics, and AI-enabled solutions.
  • Design API integration patterns with Azure API Management and build secure containerized applications with Docker and Azure Container Registry.
  • Implement identity, security, networking, CI/CD, logging, monitoring, observability, and production support capabilities across Azure environments.
  • Troubleshoot issues across AI, application, API, data, identity, network, container, and Azure infrastructure layers.
  • Collaborate with client technical consulting, architecture, security, infrastructure, data, and product teams.
  • Lead technical design, whiteboarding, troubleshooting, and knowledge-transfer sessions.

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of hands-on software development experience, particularly with Python.
  • At least 8 years of experience designing and delivering solutions on Microsoft Azure.
  • At least 5 years of hands-on experience developing Generative AI and/or Agentic AI applications.
  • Experience with Microsoft Foundry/Azure AI services, Copilot Studio, or similar enterprise AI platforms.
  • Experience with AI agents, orchestration workflows, grounding, tool calling, and Model Context Protocol servers and tools.
  • Experience with Microsoft Fabric and enterprise data or analytics solutions.
  • Strong API development and integration experience, including Azure API Management.
  • Experience with Docker, containers, and Azure Container Registry.
  • Understanding of Azure networking, including VNets, private endpoints, DNS, routing, and firewalls.
  • Experience with Microsoft Entra ID, Managed Identities, Azure Key Vault, Azure DevOps, and/or GitHub.
  • Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, communication, and client-facing skills.
  • English proficiency is required for regular interaction with stakeholders across Canada, the United States, and other countries.
  • Nice-to-have qualifications include C#/.NET or TypeScript, production enterprise GenAI or Agentic AI deployment, custom agent-tool development, Microsoft Fabric and AI integrations, AI Gateway or GenAI API management, hybrid Azure and on-premises integration, restricted-network Azure environments, observability, governance, security, and prior forward-deployed, lead consultant, principal consultant, or solution architect experience.

Benefits

  • The role is hybrid.
  • The position is a full-time role.
  • The listed hourly compensation range applies to British Columbia, Ontario, and New Brunswick.

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Forward Deployed
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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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