Enterprise AI Deployment Lead

Accenture UK & Ireland; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture UK & Ireland invites a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to embed with client teams, turning AI platform capabilities into real business value in complex environments. You own time-to-value, adoption, reliability, and scalability across multiple workstreams, shaping blueprints and accelerators for the FDE practice.

This role partners with CTO/CFO/CISO stakeholders to drive enterprise-scale deployments across industries and will influence how AI capabilities scale inside client organizations.

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 or vendor labs do not qualify
• Proven ability to articulate business value: quantify impact of deployments for CFO-level decisions
• Experience presenting to senior client stakeholders (CTO, CFO, CISO)
• Non-linear profiles welcomed; assessment based on deployment experience and outcome ownership
• People lead responsibilities: managing, developing, and performance-managing a team of engineers

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise AI platform deployments across complex multi-stakeholder client environments, owning the full programme from architecture through adoption.
• Own programme-level delivery outcomes: time-to-value, reliability, adoption velocity, and scalability across multiple concurrent workstreams, with commercial metrics.
• Lead rapid experimentation at pace: drive ambiguous business problems to working production systems in days or weeks.
• Architect and govern enterprise AI solutions across the full technology stack: identity, data, security, governance, platform layer, and multi-system workflow integration at programme scale.
• Shape AI reinvention strategy for client CTO, CFO, and CISO: build value architecture, ROI backlogs, use case prioritisation frameworks, and multi-year AI adoption roadmaps.
• Define and publish reusable reinvention blueprints, patterns, and accelerators that scale across multiple client engagements and grow the FDE practice.
• Lead architecture design sessions, executive workshops, and code-with sessions with client engineering and C-suite leadership teams.
• Codify delivery learnings, failure patterns, and engineering standards that shape the FDE practice and enable the next generation of forward deployed engineers

Skills

Cloud-native APIs

Microservices

Containerization

Serverless

Agentic AI solutions

Orchestration

RAG integration

Production deployment

Stakeholder communication

Delivery ownership

Business value articulation

Leadership

Job description

Accenture UK & Ireland invites a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to embed with client teams, turning AI platform capabilities into real business value in complex environments. You own time-to-value, adoption, reliability, and scalability across multiple workstreams, shaping blueprints and accelerators for the FDE practice.

This role partners with CTO/CFO/CISO stakeholders to drive enterprise-scale deployments across industries and will influence how AI capabilities scale inside client organizations.