Forward Deployed Identity Security Engineer

Accenture; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer for the Identity Platform to work on hands-on coding in client environments and build scalable identity solutions. You will implement authorization engines, registries, and credential brokers while deeply understanding client systems and deploying in production.

This role emphasizes practical engineering, working with modern identity standards, and collaborating with client teams to realize secure, robust platforms.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of professional experience building and shipping production software.
• Hands-on technical work within the last 18 months, including production development or code review.
• 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.
• 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.
• Explain your design to a client's engineers and defend the parts they push back on.

Skills

Python

Go

Rust

TypeScript

Java

C++

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

CI/CD

Containers

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer for the Identity Platform to work on hands-on coding in client environments and build scalable identity solutions. You will implement authorization engines, registries, and credential brokers while deeply understanding client systems and deploying in production.

This role emphasizes practical engineering, working with modern identity standards, and collaborating with client teams to realize secure, robust platforms.