Forward Deployed Identity Platform Lead

Accenture; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 94,000 - 294,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) plan

Bonus opportunities

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer for the Agentic Identity Platform to provide technical leadership on client engagements. You will read, review, and make design calls based on real system behavior rather than decks, and you will not simply sign off on delivery.

You will be in the room with the client, setting direction and choosing between build or buy decisions. Travel may be required; you will lead architecture discussions, prototype when needed, and mentor engineers while

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience building and shipping production software.
• 4+ years of professional development in at least one of Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, Java, or C++.
• 4+ years designing and building concurrent or distributed systems that ran in production.
• 3+ years deploying and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including containers and CI/CD pipelines.
• 2+ years of technical leadership of at least 2 engineers, including code review and design review responsibility.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) OR (minimum 12 years) work experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical design for an engagement, including the decisions you'll be held to when they're wrong.
• Stay close enough to the agentic identity stack to review the implementation critically and prototype when that's the fastest way to settle a question.
• Set the technical direction the engineers on your engagement follow, and review their code.
• Reverse-engineer how identity actually works in a client environment, then design what it should be.
• Make the build-versus-buy calls and document why, in a form that survives your leaving the project.
• Prototype against emerging standards and vendor betas, often before documentation exists.
• Build the reference implementations and technical content that become how the practice does this work.
• Grow the engineers around you, primarily by working alongside them rather than reviewing from a distance.

Skills

Technical leadership

System design

Code review

Architecture decisions

Distributed systems

Mentoring engineers

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Python

Go

Rust

TypeScript

Java

C++

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer for the Agentic Identity Platform to provide technical leadership on client engagements. You will read, review, and make design calls based on real system behavior rather than decks, and you will not simply sign off on delivery.

You will be in the room with the client, setting direction and choosing between build or buy decisions. Travel may be required; you will lead architecture discussions, prototype when needed, and mentor engineers while