Remote AI SDLC Forward-Deployed Engineer

Accenture PLC; London Borough of Southwark; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is expanding its Forward Deployed Engineering capability to deliver hands-on AI at enterprise scale across client accounts. As a Consultant-level FDE, you will embed within client teams to design, build, and ship production AI products and platforms, owning delivery end-to-end from PoV to production.

You will work with senior FDEs to shape repeatable patterns, stay ahead on LLM capabilities, and champion safe AI usage while leveraging SDLC processes and agentic frameworks.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of experience in a technical engineering role with client-facing or consulting exposure.
• Experience delivering production applications with real business impact in enterprise environments.
• Hands-on experience with large language models (prompt engineering, loop engineering, skill creation, agent development and use, evaluation frameworks, workflows, and deployment).

Responsibilities

• Deliver production-quality work - Build and ship applications inside client systems, using AI SDLC workflows and processes ensuring solutions meet enterprise requirements for performance, security, and reliability.
• Develop technical assets - Create reusable, production-ready artefacts or tools including MCP servers, sub-agents, agent orchestration frameworks, and evaluation tooling that can be deployed across client workflows.
• Support enterprise deployments - Play a key technical role in rollouts of frontier AI capabilities, in particular AI in the SDLC processes, ensuring smooth integration with existing IT infrastructure, workflows applications.
• Accelerate adoption - Work shoulder-to-shoulder with client engineering and product teams to drive meaningful AI adoption, removing blockers and closing skill gaps in real time. This will include up-skilling people at Accenture and our clients.

Skills

Programming (TS/JS)

Python/Java

Go/Rust

AI agents & workflows

Cloud platforms & CI/CD

Tools

MCP servers

Sub-agents

Agent orchestration

Evaluation tooling

Job description

Accenture is expanding its Forward Deployed Engineering capability to deliver hands-on AI at enterprise scale across client accounts. As a Consultant-level FDE, you will embed within client teams to design, build, and ship production AI products and platforms, owning delivery end-to-end from PoV to production.

You will work with senior FDEs to shape repeatable patterns, stay ahead on LLM capabilities, and champion safe AI usage while leveraging SDLC processes and agentic frameworks.