Senior Forward-Deployed AI Engineering Lead

Accenture; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an experienced Forward Deployed AI Engineer to lead enterprise AI platform deployments across complex client environments and own programme delivery from architecture to adoption.

You will guide rapid experimentation, design scalable AI solutions, and set governance across identity, data, security, and workflows while shaping multi-year AI adoption roadmaps for major enterprises.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years engineering experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containerization, serverless).
• Minimum of 1 year of deep expertise in designing and deploying agentic solutions (agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, workflows) in production environments.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience with AI platforms — OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, plus open-source models — including building abstraction layers to manage multi-provider pipelines.
• 8-10 years of 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

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise AI platform deployments across complex multi-stakeholder client environments — Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, SAP, or Palantir — 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 attached
• Lead rapid experimentation at pace: drive ambiguous business problems to working production systems in days or weeks across complex enterprise environments
• 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 prioritization 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 experience

AI deployment experience

Leadership of software teams

Tools

OpenAI/Claude/Vertex AI

Open-source models

Job description

Accenture is seeking an experienced Forward Deployed AI Engineer to lead enterprise AI platform deployments across complex client environments and own programme delivery from architecture to adoption.

You will guide rapid experimentation, design scalable AI solutions, and set governance across identity, data, security, and workflows while shaping multi-year AI adoption roadmaps for major enterprises.