Forward Deployed Engineer at Accenture · London

Forward Deployed Engineer
Location: London
Shape the future of AI-led business transformation.
A Forward Deployed AI Engineer works embedded inside a client's enterprise, shoulder to shoulder with their teams, making complex AI platforms work in real organisational environments. You own outcomes: time-to-value, adoption, reliability, and scalability.

We are building the largest Forward Deployed Engineering capability in the services industry. The engineers who join at this stage will define what the role looks like at scale, and will work on the most interesting enterprise AI problems across every industry.

What you will do
Embed directly with client engineering and business teams to deploy, scale, and operationalise AI platforms, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, SAP, and Palantir, inside enterprise environments
Own production outcomes end-to-end: time-to-value, reliability, adoption velocity, and scalability
Move from ambiguous business problem to working production system through rapid experimentation: days to prototype, weeks to production-ready
Design and govern AI architectures across the full enterprise stack, spanning identity, data, security, governance, platform layer, and workflow integration
Build reusable patterns, playbooks, and accelerators that the client owns after you leave, and codify delivery learnings that scale across engagements
Basic Qualifications
Engineering experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containerization, serverless).
Deep expertise in designing and deploying agentic solutions (agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, workflows) in production environments.
Experience with AI platforms — OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, plus open-source models — including building abstraction layers to manage multi-provider pipelines.
Experience leading software engineering teams: overseeing delivery, allocating resources across workstreams, and owning the professional development of direct reports"
Demonstrated end-to-end delivery ownership in a client-embedded environment, internal projects, vendor labs, or team-only deployments do not qualify
Proven ability to articulate business value: can quantify the impact of deployments in terms a CFO would recognize and act on
Experience presenting to and building trust with senior client stakeholders, CTO, CFO, or CISO level
Non-linear profiles are expected and welcomed, assessment is based on demonstrated deployment experience and outcome ownership, not CV pattern matching
People lead responsibilities: experience managing, developing, and performance-managing a team of engineers; setting individual development plans and conducting career conversations
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About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
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