Forward Deployed Engineer
Accenture
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
- 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