Strategic Forward-Deployed AI Engineer Manager

Accenture Italia; Lombardia; On-site; EUR 50,000 - 87,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Italia is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to embed with client teams and deliver production AI platforms at scale. You will own time-to-value, adoption, reliability, and scalability, not just milestones, across complex enterprise environments.

This role requires leading multi-stakeholder deployments, shaping value architectures, and driving durable AI adoption. Compensation ranges from 50,000 to 86,700 EUR annually, with a focus on outcomes over traditional delivery metrics.

Qualifications

• Extensive engineering experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containerization, serverless).
• Deep expertise in designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in production.
• Experience leading software engineering teams and multi-workstream delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise AI platform deployments across complex client environments, owning architecture through adoption.
• Own programme-level delivery outcomes: time-to-value, reliability, adoption velocity, and scalability with metrics.
• Lead rapid experimentation to production systems within days or weeks in enterprise settings.

Skills

Cloud-native systems

Agentic AI solutions

AI platforms

Team leadership

Job description

Accenture Italia is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to embed with client teams and deliver production AI platforms at scale. You will own time-to-value, adoption, reliability, and scalability, not just milestones, across complex enterprise environments.

This role requires leading multi-stakeholder deployments, shaping value architectures, and driving durable AI adoption. Compensation ranges from 50,000 to 86,700 EUR annually, with a focus on outcomes over traditional delivery metrics.