IT & Software

Forward Deployed Engineer

Accenture

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

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Overview

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
Key requirements
  • 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

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