Forward-Deployed Identity Platform Engineer

Accenture; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer for the Agentic Identity Platform. This hands-on role requires deep systems understanding and the ability to implement in production. You will work directly with clients to translate identity requirements into reliable software.

You’ll collaborate across teams, prototype against emerging standards, and own components end-to-end from design to deployment. The role includes travel and a mix of coding, debugging at 3am, and conveying complex concepts

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.

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

Production software

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Multi-language programming

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) OR (minimum 12 years) work experience

Tools

OAuth 2.0

OIDC

SAML

SPIFFE

PKI

mTLS

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer for the Agentic Identity Platform. This hands-on role requires deep systems understanding and the ability to implement in production. You will work directly with clients to translate identity requirements into reliable software.

You’ll collaborate across teams, prototype against emerging standards, and own components end-to-end from design to deployment. The role includes travel and a mix of coding, debugging at 3am, and conveying complex concepts