Lead AI Security Architect & FDE Engineering Leader

Accenture

Houston (TX)

On-site

USD 130,000 - 260,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Accenture Security seeks an experienced Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with client teams and secure AI systems in real environments. You will own outcomes, reduce attack surfaces, and deliver production-safe AI deployments using Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot as the main tooling.

Travel between 0% and 100% may be required. Qualified candidates have deep cybersecurity expertise, hands-on AI security design experience, and strong leadership to drive governance, risk

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in a relevant field.
Minimum 10 years of engineering experience with a cybersecurity discipline.
Hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in production.
Experience with cloud security across AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Responsibilities

Lead AI security architecture and threat modeling for production agentic deployments across complex client environments.
Deliver hands-on security engineering using agentic coding tools as the primary build environment.
Own AI-specific threat surface management at programme scale.
Architect and govern AI security controls across the enterprise stack.
Lead AI governance framework implementation and model risk management.

Skills

AI security

Threat modeling

Security architecture

Agentic coding

Cloud security

IAM

GRC

Offensive security

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Travel between 0% and 100% may be required. Qualified candidates have deep cybersecurity expertise, hands-on AI security design experience, and strong leadership to drive governance, risk

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