2 days ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own large-scale, high-stakes client deployments and engagement strategy from problem discovery through delivery, governance, change management, and relationship stewardship.
- Lead multiple deployment teams or complex programmes while ensuring engineering quality, delivery pace, and client outcomes.
- Set technical direction and make architecture and tooling decisions aligned with client objectives and engineering best practices.
- Serve as the senior technical and client escalation point for complex, high-pressure challenges.
- Drive AI integration strategies involving agentic workflows, LLM-powered tooling, and AI-native application patterns.
- Build executive-level client relationships and identify opportunities for practice and engagement growth.
- Develop reusable FDE assets, including reference implementations, delivery accelerators, onboarding frameworks, and engineering playbooks.
- Shape the FDE practice through hiring, capability development, community building, and delivery-model evolution.
- Mentor Senior Managers and engineers and help develop senior engineering leadership.
- Partner with Sales and Account leadership on proposals, client presentations, and commercial strategy.
- Represent the FDE practice in internal and external forums and promote knowledge sharing and a high-performance engineering culture.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading large, complex data and AI delivery programmes in embedded or Forward Deployed engineering environments with accountability for outcomes.
- Experience advising C-suite and Director-level stakeholders and navigating politically complex, high-pressure environments.
- Strong hands-on engineering foundations across modern data and AI platforms, architecture, and implementation.
- Deep experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure and modern data tooling such as Databricks, Snowflake, and dbt.
- Fluency in Python and SQL, plus at least one of TypeScript/React or PySpark.
- Experience with AI development frameworks and LLM integration patterns.
- Experience building and scaling teams or communities of practice, including hiring, developing, and retaining senior engineering talent.
- Exceptional communication, influencing, emotional intelligence, and executive stakeholder-management skills.
- Experience contributing to business development, proposals, senior client presentations, and engagement growth.
- Ability to build trust rapidly in new client environments and maintain high standards of delivery and integrity.
Benefits
- 30 days of vacation.
- Gym subsidy.
- Private medical insurance.
- Three additional days of leave per year for charitable work.
- London-based role requiring flexibility, mobility, and time onsite with clients and partners.
- Employment is subject to satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance, requiring five years of continuous UK address history at the point of application.
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.