Forward-Deployed Identity Security Architect

Accenture; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Life insurance

Long-term disability

401(k) plan

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer with deep technical leadership to work on Identity and Access Management solutions for enterprise clients. You will review architectures, design critical components, and guide engineering teams in complex deployments across client environments.

You will operate in a client-facing capacity, setting direction, making build-versus-buy decisions, and prototyping in the identity space.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of professional experience building and shipping production software.
• Hands-on technical work within the last 24 months, counting development, prototyping, code review, or technical design review.
• Minimum of 4 years of professional development in at least one of Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, Java, or C+.
• Minimum of 4 years designing and building concurrent or distributed systems that ran in production.
• Minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience deploying and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including containers and CI/CD pipelines.
• Minimum of 2 years of technical leadership of at least 2 engineers, including code review and design review responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical design for an engagement, including decisions you'll be held to when they're wrong.
• Stay close enough to the agentic identity stack to review implementation and prototype.
• 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 build-versus-buy calls and document why, for long-term maintainability.
• Prototype against emerging standards and vendor betas, often before documentation exists.
• Build the reference implementations and technical content that become the standard practice.
• Grow the engineers around you by working alongside them.

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer with deep technical leadership to work on Identity and Access Management solutions for enterprise clients. You will review architectures, design critical components, and guide engineering teams in complex deployments across client environments.

You will operate in a client-facing capacity, setting direction, making build-versus-buy decisions, and prototyping in the identity space.