Accenture

Forward Deployed Engineer

Accenture
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2 days ago
London, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Embed with client engineering and business teams to deploy, scale, and operationalize enterprise AI platforms.
  • Own end-to-end production outcomes including time-to-value, reliability, adoption velocity, and scalability.
  • Translate ambiguous business problems into production-ready systems through rapid experimentation.
  • Design and govern AI architectures spanning identity, data, security, governance, platform layers, and workflow integration.
  • Build reusable client-owned patterns, playbooks, and accelerators and codify delivery learnings.
  • Lead, manage, develop, and performance-manage engineering teams, including resource allocation, individual development plans, and career conversations.
  • Present to senior client stakeholders and quantify deployment value in business and financial terms.

Requirements

  • Engineering experience with cloud-native systems, APIs, microservices, containerization, and serverless systems.
  • Deep production experience designing and deploying agentic solutions involving agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, and workflows.
  • Experience with OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, and open-source models, including abstraction layers for multi-provider pipelines.
  • Experience leading software engineering teams, overseeing delivery, allocating resources, and owning direct reports' professional development.
  • Demonstrated end-to-end delivery ownership in a client-embedded environment; internal-only deployments do not qualify.
  • Ability to articulate business value in terms recognizable to CFO-level stakeholders.
  • Experience presenting to and building trust with CTO-, CFO-, or CISO-level client stakeholders.
  • Experience managing, developing, and performance-managing engineering teams.

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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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