IT & Software

Forward Deployed Engineer

Accenture

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role you embed with client engineering and business teams to deploy AI platforms inside enterprise environments, owning time-to-value, reliability, adoption, and scalability. You work across platform vendors to design, govern, and operationalise AI architectures from data to workflow integration. You transform ambiguous business problems into production-ready systems through rapid prototyping and scalable delivery. You build reusable patterns and accelerators that the client owns after engagement. This is a high-impact, client-embedded role shaping AI-led transformations at scale.

Responsibilities
  • Embed with client teams to deploy, scale, and operationalise AI platforms in enterprise environments (Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, SAP, Palantir)
  • Own production outcomes end-to-end: time-to-value, reliability, adoption velocity, scalability
  • Prototype rapidly from problem to production-ready system (days to prototype, weeks to production)
  • Design and govern AI architectures across the entire enterprise stack (identity, data, security, governance, platform, workflow)
  • Build reusable patterns, playbooks, and accelerators for client ownership after engagement and codify learnings for scale
Key requirements
  • Cloud-native systems experience (APIs, microservices, containerization, serverless)
  • Deep expertise in agentic AI solutions (agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, workflows) in production
  • Experience with AI platforms (OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI) and multi-provider pipelines
  • Proven experience leading software engineering teams and delivering in client-embedded contexts
  • Ability to articulate business value and quantify impact for executive stakeholders
  • Experience presenting to senior client stakeholders (CTO, CFO, CISO) and building trust
  • Stakeholder communication
  • Leadership and people management
  • Delivery ownership and accountability
  • Cloud-native architectures (APIs, microservices, containers, serverless)
  • Agentic AI capabilities (agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, workflows)
  • AI platforms and multi-provider pipelines (OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI)

Reference: WJ-747_31157996

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