Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

About the Position

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Join Accenture as a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to design and ship AI systems that deliver real outcomes for enterprise clients. This role suits someone who is equally at home in a technical deep-dive and a boardroom. You'll work directly with enterprise clients to change how their organizations operate by designing and shipping AI systems that deliver real outcomes.

Responsibilities

Strategic Client Leadership

• Own the technical relationship with enterprise clients from initial discovery through to production, including C-suite engagement and long-term roadmap influence.
• Run workshops that identify and prioritize high-value AI use cases, translating business problems into concrete engineering plans.

Solution Design & Delivery

• Architect and ship enterprise-grade AI systems using the best available tooling (Claude, GPT, Gemini etc.) chosen for the problem, not the default.
• Design pipelines and agentic workflows that meet real enterprise requirements: security, scalability, cost efficiency, and reliability at production load.
• Integrate LLMs with complex enterprise data environments, including cloud platforms and data warehouses.

Technical Leadership

• Set the technical direction on engagements, making the hard calls on architecture, tooling, and trade-offs.
• Mentor engineers on both sides of the client relationship, raising the standard of the whole team.
• Lead incident resolution and complex troubleshooting.

Governance & Operational Excellence

• Define evaluation frameworks that assess model quality, safety, and business impact.
• Implement LLMOps practices including monitoring, observability, and drift detection in production environments.
• Ensure every deployment meets enterprise security and compliance requirements from day one.

Requirements

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, solutions architecture, or technical consulting
• 3+ years delivering AI/ML or LLM-based solutions in production
• Proven track record of leading complex, customer-facing technical engagements

Technical Skills

• Programming & Engineering

  • Expert-level in at least one programming language
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems and API design
  • Experience with observability and CI/CD hygiene

• LLM & AI Platforms

  • Hands-on experience with Claude, GPT, and Gemini in production
  • Understanding of model trade-offs: cost, latency, context limits, reasoning quality
  • Experience with prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, and agentic frameworks

• Cloud & Data Technologies

  • Strong on at least one major cloud platform (e.g. AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • Experience with containerisation and orchestration in production environments

• Data Platforms

  • Comfortable working across the data stack (e.g. Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks)
  • Ability to integrate LLMs with complex data environments

Nice to Have

• Experience deploying AI solutions in regulated industries such as finance, healthcare, or government
• Familiarity with responsible AI and model risk management frameworks
• Contributions to open-source projects or technical publications
• Experience with evaluation and observability tools such as LangSmith, Promptfoo, or Weights & Biases
• Prior experience in a startup or high-growth technology environment

We Offer

• 18 weeks paid parental leave
• Long & short-term career break opportunities
• Structured career development program
• Local and international career opportunities
• Certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace™
• Flexible Work Arrangements
• Comprehensive training programs
• Opportunities to acquire and build specialized skills

About the Company

Accenture is a leading solutions and services company that helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed across the enterprise. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. Through our Reinvention Services we bring together our capabilities across strategy, consulting, technology, operations, Song and Industry X with our deep industry expertise to create and deliver solutions and services for our clients. Our purpose is to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity, and we measure our success by the 360° value we create for all our stakeholders. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Accenture, we recognize that our people are multi-dimensional, and we create a work environment where all people feel like they can bring their authentic selves to work, every day. Our unwavering commitment to inclusion and diversity unleashes innovation and creates a culture where everyone feels they have equal opportunity. We encourage applications from all people, and we are committed to removing barriers to the recruitment process and employee lifecycle. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, religion or sexual orientation and we do not tolerate discrimination.