Senior Agentic Identity Security Architect

Accenture; Walnut Creek (CA); On-site; USD 94,000 - 294,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer for the Identity Platform, a technical leadership role. You will read, review, and make design calls that depend on understanding how the system actually works rather than just a deck. In many engagements you may not be writing code daily, but you will influence architecture and outcomes.

Travel may be required. You will own designs, review implementations, set direction, and prototype against evolving standards.

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.
• 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 in it 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

Python

Go

Rust

TypeScript

Java

C++

OAuth 2.0

OIDC

SAML

PKI

mTLS

IAM

GAAP

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer for the Identity Platform, a technical leadership role. You will read, review, and make design calls that depend on understanding how the system actually works rather than just a deck. In many engagements you may not be writing code daily, but you will influence architecture and outcomes.

Travel may be required. You will own designs, review implementations, set direction, and prototype against evolving standards.