Forward Deployed Engineer - Senior Manager (Palantir)

Accenture UK & Ireland; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Decho, part of Accenture, seeks a Data Engineering Senior Manager (Palantir) in London to lead deployment teams and own client engagements. You will architect solutions across complex data landscapes, drive AI-enabled workflows, and collaborate with internal innovation labs.

The role requires strong leadership, strategic advisory skills, and hands-on data engineering experience. You will work onsite with clients in London, guiding projects from discovery to delivery while maintaining a high

Qualifications

• Strategic thinking for client relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to decompose complex use cases and architect scalable solutions.
• Fluency in Python, SQL, and TypeScript/React with data engineering principles.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of client problem discovery and strategic advisory, building enduring relationships.
• Lead deployment teams delivering end-to-end data engineering, including Palantir Foundry tooling and custom code.
• Translate technical language for non-technical stakeholders and drive client outcomes.
• Embed AI workflows into existing applications using cutting-edge tools.
• Collaborate with APBG/Decho Labs to build internal products and share learnings.
• Foster a collaborative, high-visibility engineering culture and mentorship.

Skills

Strategic mindset

Client relationship management

Leadership

Analytical thinking

Python

SQL

TypeScript

React

Palantir Foundry

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Job description

Role Title: Data Engineering Senior Manager (Palantir)

Location: London, UK

Salary: Competitive salary and package dependent on experience

Level: Senior Manager

About Decho (part Of Accenture)

Accenture Palantir Business Group (APBG) is a deep data and AI group founded on an innate desire to create real-world change. We are consulting engineers with a purpose, offering a ‘boots on the ground’ approach to complex public and private sector challenges. As a trusted Palantir partner we help our clients to extract the most value from their technology.

We are working at the cutting edge of Palantir technology and harnessing its capabilities with purpose. Our teams are united in their mission to be drivers of positive change in the world’s most influential organisations. This includes strengthening our advantage in the defence, infrastructure and public safety - empowering more public and private institutions to unlock their full potential.

The Role

As a Senior Managing Engineer - Forward Deployed / Data Engineering Senior Manager, you will operate with high individual, team and client ownership. You will be accountable for the strategy across your deployed client engagement. Leading a team of engineers, who design solutions that unify complex data landscapes, build workflows that drive smarter decisions, and partner with organisations to deliver sustainable transformation. Working directly with your clients, you will be the face of AOBG, requiring a unique blend of high emotional intelligence (EQ) and technical mastery to navigate complex environments and drive programme outcomes. You and your team will have creative freedom to architect solutions, working iteratively to build fast, demonstrate your work to clients and refine it based on real-time feedback.

What You’ll Do

• Strategic Delivery: Take full ownership of client problem set discovery and business analysis. Accountable for strategic advisory, programme design, horizon mapping and change management. Significant ownership of enduring and successful relationships with clients
• End-to-End Delivery: Lead your deployment team to drive significant overarching ownership of client problems, handling everything from deep data engineering knowing that may require low/no code Palantir Foundry tooling, or Python and PySpark code repos - to building user-facing front-end applications and widgets in TypeScript or REACT
• Lead Client Advisory: Sit directly alongside clients, goals and requirements and translate complex technical language into stakeholder appropriate communication
• AI Integration: Actively embed AI workflows into existing applications using cutting-edge tools like AIP Logic Functions, AIP Analysts, and AIFDE
• APBG/Decho Labs Innovation: Contribute to APBG/Decho Labs to build tangible internal products. Feed your deployment learnings back into the company so our teams learn from your success and we create compounding assets of value for internally and for our clients
• Innate Collaboration: Manage project team, driving self-assignment of taskings, actively participate in our "show and tell" culture through teachbacks and tech reviews and uplift your peers and wider APBG/Decho community through our highly active internal support channels

What We Are Looking For

• Strategic mindset: Demonstrate an exceptional level of client relationship management alignment to high level decision making individuals, alongside your technical understanding and natural leadership
• Problem Solvers: We highly value individuals who can navigate nuanced client environments. We care more about your ability to decompose complex use cases and architect solutions than rote memorising of coding syntax
• Fluency in core languages (Python, SQL, TypeScript and/or REACT) and the capability to pick up others quickly. You should understand data engineering principles, ETL pipelines, and application development
• Familiarity with Palantir (Foundry, Gotham, or similar) is preferred but not mandatory provided you have a strong willingness to learn
• High EQ & Curiosity: The emotional intelligence to manage client expectations, a proactive self‑starting nature, and the humility to know you don't know everything and search for and accept help
• Impact‑Driven Communication: The ability to drive a team to present impressive demos, simplify complexity for non‑technical users and focus on delivering genuine client impact

We foster an open, low‑ego culture built on merit, where professional strides are formalised through weekly all company sessions. All levels of our business are highly visible and accessible to everyone. We have a vibrant engineering community that connects through regular socials and interest‑based Slack communities, creating opportunities to learn from one another and share what we love outside of work.

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first‑class services we are known for.

Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.

Please Note: Any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory BPSS, SC and /or DV security clearance which requires 5 years continuous UK address history (typically including no periods of 30 consecutive days or more spent outside of the UK) and declaration of being a British passport holder with no dual nationalism at the point of application.

Note: The above information relates to a specific client requirement