Senior AI-Driven Sourcing & Procurement Leader

Accenture; Beaverton (OR); On-site; USD 120,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Bonus opportunities

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to join our team in client environments, delivering production-grade AI platforms. You will own outcomes including time-to-value, adoption, reliability, and scalability while embedding with client teams.

Travel up to 75% is required; role focuses on architecting and deploying AI-enabled procurement solutions and related workflows across enterprise systems.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of engineering experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containers, serverless).
• Minimum of 1 year designing and deploying agentic solutions (agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, workflows) in production environments.
• Minimum of 3 years of deep expertise with AI platforms (OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, or open-source models), including building abstraction layers for multi-provider pipelines.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience leading software engineering teams, including delivery oversight, resource allocation, and professional development of direct reports.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience (minimum 12 years; if associate, minimum 6 years).

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise AI platform deployments across complex multi-stakeholder client environments — Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, SAP, or Palantir.
• Own programme-level delivery outcomes: time-to-value, reliability, adoption velocity, and scalability across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Lead rapid experimentation at pace to move problems to production in days or weeks.
• Architect and govern enterprise AI solutions across identity, data, security, governance, platform layer, and integrations.
• Shape AI reinvention strategy for client executives and connect cost-out objectives to scalable AI architectures.
• Define and publish reusable reinvention blueprints and accelerators for multiple engagements.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Cloud-native systems

AI platforms

Agentic solutions

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to join our team in client environments, delivering production-grade AI platforms. You will own outcomes including time-to-value, adoption, reliability, and scalability while embedding with client teams.

Travel up to 75% is required; role focuses on architecting and deploying AI-enabled procurement solutions and related workflows across enterprise systems.