Agentic Identity Security Consultant

Accenture; Scottsdale (AZ); On-site; USD 110,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Security is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer for the Identity Platform. This hands-on role requires deep system understanding, design, and building in production environments for MCP servers and credential services.

You will prototype against emerging standards, own end-to-end components, and collaborate with client engineers to defend designs while delivering robust security solutions.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of professional experience building and shipping production software.
• Hands-on technical work within the last 18 months, counting production development, prototyping, or code review.
• Minimum of 2 years of professional development in at least one of Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, Java, or C++
• Minimum of 2 years building concurrent or distributed systems that ran in production
• Minimum of 2 years of hands-on experience deploying and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including containers and CI/CD pipelines
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) OR (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)

Responsibilities

• Build and ship services in the agentic identity stack: authorization engines, agent registries, credential brokers, and authentication layers for MCP servers
• Own a component end to end: design, implementation, deployment, and what happens when it fails at 3am
• Reverse‑engineer how identity actually works in a client environment, then design what it should be
• Prototype against emerging standards and vendor betas, often before documentation exists
• Build the internal tooling and reference implementations the rest of the practice reuses
• Explain your design to a client's engineers and defend the parts they push back on

Skills

Python

Go

Rust

TypeScript

Java

C++

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

On-call experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent)

12 years work experience alternative

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

We Are

Accenture Security helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond, and recover along with all points of the security lifecycle. Cybersecurity challenges are different for every business in every industry. Leveraging our global resources and advanced technologies, we create integrated, turnkey solutions tailored to our client's needs across their entire value chain. Whether we’re defending against known cyberattacks, detecting and responding to the unknown, or running an entire security operations center, we will help companies build cyber resilience to grow with confidence. Our team of the security sector’s brightest people uses the coolest tech to out-hack the hackers and help clients build resilience from within. We blend risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security, and managed service solutions to rethink the entire security lifecycle.

We Are

Accenture Security helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond, and recover along with all points of the security lifecycle. Cybersecurity challenges are different for every business in every industry. Leveraging our global resources and advanced technologies, we create integrated, turnkey solutions tailored to our client's needs across their entire value chain. Whether we’re defending against known cyberattacks, detecting and responding to the unknown, or running an entire security operations center, we will help companies build cyber resilience to grow with confidence. Our team of the security sector’s brightest people uses the coolest tech to out-hack the hackers and help clients build resilience from within. We blend risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security, and managed service solutions to rethink the entire security lifecycle.

Do you have the deep functional and technical experience to help implement security solutions that align with our clients’ business objectives?

Do you have the expertise to design and deliver solutions for establishing system user's credentials, and processes for applying those credentials to access enterprise systems and applications?

If so, read on and apply. Accenture’s more than 2,000 security professionals deliver holistic and proactive security solutions in 47 countries, and we’d love to discuss our open Identity and Access Management (I&AM) Security role with you

You Are

An engineer who has stayed an engineer. You came up building things, and you have no interest in a career track that takes that away. You're resourceful about how you get there. You know which problems call for a library, which call for a vendor product, and which call for writing the thing yourself. You read the spec instead of guessing what it says. You've debugged something at 2am because you wanted to know why it broke, not because anyone asked.

You've shipped code that other people depended on and that you were on the hook for when it broke. You go one layer deeper than the assignment required. You can explain a hard technical idea to someone who doesn't share your background without either condescending or hiding behind jargon.

You almost certainly haven't done this specific work before. Very few people have, which is most of why it's interesting.

The Work

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Identity Platform is a hands‑on technical role. How much of any given week you spend writing code will vary by engagement, but you'll be expected to understand the systems you work on at implementation depth, and to be able to build in them when the work calls for it. If your recent experience is limited to producing architecture decks, running vendor implementations, or coordinating offshore delivery, this is probably not the right fit, and we would rather tell you now than in the third interview.

Specifically

• Build and ship services in the agentic identity stack: authorization engines, agent registries, credential brokers, and authentication layers for MCP servers
• Own a component end to end: design, implementation, deployment, and what happens when it fails at 3am
• Reverse‑engineer how identity actually works in a client environment, then design what it should be
• Prototype against emerging standards and vendor betas, often before documentation exists
• Build the internal tooling and reference implementations the rest of the practice reuses
• Explain your design to a client's engineers and defend the parts they push back on

Most people arrive without the identity background, including people who are strong at all of it now. If you have some of it, tell us. If not, we'll teach you, and you'll learn it faster here than anywhere else because you'll be implementing the specs rather than reading about them.

What We'd Like to See

Optional, and not part of how we evaluate candidates. If you'd like to include a link to code you've written, an open‑source contribution, or a technical writeup, we enjoy reading them. If your work is under NDA and you'd rather describe in prose what you built, what was hard about it, and what you'd change, that's equally welcome. Applications without either are considered on exactly the same basis.

Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

Here's What You Need

• Minimum of 3 years of professional experience building and shipping production software
• Hands‑on technical work within the last 18 months, counting production development, prototyping, or code review
• Minimum of 2 years of professional development in at least one of Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, Java, or C++
• Minimum of 2 years building concurrent or distributed systems that ran in production
• Minimum of 2 years of hands‑on experience deploying and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including containers and CI/CD pipelines
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) OR (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)

Professional Skills Requirements

• At least 1 production service or component you owned end to end, covering design, implementation, deployment, and ongoing operation

Bonus points if you have

• Experience with OAuth 2.0, OIDC, token exchange, SAML, SPIFFE, PKI, or mTLS
• Experience with MCP, agent frameworks, or LLM application development
• Experience in identity and access management, IGA, PAM, secrets management, or non‑human identity
• Applied cryptography experience, including enough to know what you don't know
• Participation in a production on‑call rotation
• Judgment about which problems call for a library, which call for a vendor product, and which call for writing the thing yourself
• Comfort explaining a design to a client's engineers and defending the parts they push back on

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.

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• New York $66,300 to $205,800
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• Virginia $59,100 to $189,300
• Washington $80,200 to $189,300

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