Forward-Deployed AI Engineering Lead

Accenture UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer who embeds with client teams to deploy and operationalize AI platforms inside large enterprises. You own outcomes—time-to-value, reliability, adoption velocity, and scalability—across production environments, not just pilot milestones.

You will move from ambiguous business problems to production-ready systems through rapid experimentation, design enterprise-wide AI architectures, and translate technical work into measurable business value for

Qualifications

• 3-5 years engineering experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containerization, serverless).
• 1 year of deep expertise in designing and deploying agentic solutions (agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, workflows) in production.
• 3+ years experience with AI platforms — OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, plus open-source models — including building abstraction layers to manage multi-provider pipelines.
• 10+ years deploying to production, CI/CD, infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm), monitoring, and debugging.

Responsibilities

• Embed directly with client engineering and business teams to deploy, scale, and operationalize AI platforms inside enterprise environments.
• Own production outcomes end-to-end: time-to-value, reliability, adoption velocity, and scalability with business metrics attached.
• Move from ambiguous business problem to working production system through rapid experimentation.
• Design and govern AI architectures across identity, data, security, governance, platform layer, and workflow integration.
• Translate technical architecture into business impact for client CTO, CFO, and CISO; shape use case roadmaps and ROI backlogs.
• Build reusable patterns, playbooks, and accelerators that the client owns after you leave.
• Lead design workshops, proofs of concept, architecture walkthroughs, and code-with sessions with client teams.
• Codify patterns and delivery learnings that scale across engagements and contribute to the growth of the FDE practice.

Skills

Cloud-native APIs

Agentic solutions

AI platforms

CI/CD & IaC

Executive stakeholder management

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer who embeds with client teams to deploy and operationalize AI platforms inside large enterprises. You own outcomes—time-to-value, reliability, adoption velocity, and scalability—across production environments, not just pilot milestones.

You will move from ambiguous business problems to production-ready systems through rapid experimentation, design enterprise-wide AI architectures, and translate technical work into measurable business value for