Senior AI-Driven Sourcing & Procurement Architect

Accenture PLC; Detroit (MI); Hybrid; USD 133,000 - 292,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) plan with company match

Paid holidays and paid time off

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer within its Sourcing & Procurement practice in the United States. You will embed with client teams to deploy AI-powered procurement platforms and drive time-to-value, adoption, reliability, and scalability across complex environments.

The role emphasizes designing scalable AI architectures, publishing reusable blueprints, and guiding executive stakeholders on AI-enabled procurement transformation. Travel up to 75% is required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of engineering experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containers, serverless)
• 1 year designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in production environments
• 3+ years leading software engineering teams and managing deliverables

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise AI platform deployments across complex client environments and ownership of adoption and scalability
• Own programme-level delivery outcomes with time-to-value and reliability metrics
• Lead rapid experimentation to turn business problems into production systems
• Architect and govern enterprise AI solutions across identity, data, security, and platform layers

Skills

Cloud-native engineering

AI platforms

Team leadership

OpenAI/Anthropic experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

APIs

Microservices

Containerization

Serverless

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer within its Sourcing & Procurement practice in the United States. You will embed with client teams to deploy AI-powered procurement platforms and drive time-to-value, adoption, reliability, and scalability across complex environments.

The role emphasizes designing scalable AI architectures, publishing reusable blueprints, and guiding executive stakeholders on AI-enabled procurement transformation. Travel up to 75% is required.