Forward Deployed Engineer
Accenture
In this role you will embed with client teams to deploy and operationalize AI platforms at scale, turning pilots into enterprise capabilities. You’ll own time-to-value, reliability, and adoption, shaping AI use cases and roadmaps with measurable business impact. You work across the full stack to deliver production-ready AI, balancing technical delivery with business outcomes. This position offers the chance to tackle hard, real-world AI problems across industries and to help build a scalable, client-owned deployment capability.
Responsibilities- Embed with client engineering and business teams to deploy and scale AI platforms inside enterprise environments
- Own production outcomes end-to-end with business metrics like time-to-value and adoption velocity
- Turn ambiguous problems into production-ready systems via rapid prototyping to production
- Design and govern AI architectures across identity, data, security, governance, platform layer, and workflow integration
- Translate technical architecture into business impact for CTO/CFO/CISO; shape use case roadmaps and ROI backlogs
- Build reusable patterns, playbooks, and accelerators that clients own after delivery
- Lead design workshops, proofs of concept, and architecture walkthroughs with client teams
- Codify patterns and delivery learnings to scale across engagements and grow the FDE practice
- Engineering experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containerization, serverless)
- Experience in designing and deploying agentic solutions (agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, workflows) in production
- Strong experience with AI platforms (OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, and open-source models) including multi-provider pipelines
- Significant experience deploying to production, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm)
- Proven end-to-end delivery ownership in client-embedded environments
- Ability to quantify business value and communicate it to senior stakeholders (CTO, CFO, CISO)
- Experience presenting to senior client stakeholders; non-linear profiles welcome
- Demonstrated deployment ownership across internal or client engagements
- stakeholder management
- clear communication
- cross-functional collaboration
- cloud-native architectures
- agentic AI design
- multi-provider AI pipelines
Reference: WJ-747_31294015 · Posted 14 Nov 2026, 11:35 PM