Senior AI-Driven Sourcing & Procurement Leader

Accenture PLC; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 123,000 - 292,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer in Illinois to embed within client teams and make AI platforms work in real enterprise environments. You own outcomes—time-to-value, adoption, reliability, and scalability—across procurement and sourcing transformations.

The role requires 8+ years in engineering, 1 year in agentic solutions, and 3+ years with AI platforms, plus experience leading software teams. Travel up to 75% is expected.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of engineering experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containers, serverless).
• 1 year designing and deploying agentic solutions (agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, workflows) in production.
• 3+ years of deep experience with AI platforms (OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, or open-source models).
• 8+ years of experience leading software engineering teams, with delivery oversight.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise AI platform deployments across complex multi-stakeholder client environments, owning the full programme from architecture through adoption.
• Own programme-level delivery outcomes: time-to-value, reliability, adoption velocity, and scalability across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Lead rapid experimentation at pace: drive ambiguous business problems to working production systems in days or weeks.
• Architect and govern enterprise AI solutions across the full technology stack: identity, data, security, governance, platform layer, and multi-system workflow integration at programme scale.
• Shape AI reinvention strategy for client CTO, CFO, and CISO: build value architecture, ROI backlogs, use case prioritisation frameworks, and multi-year AI adoption roadmaps.
• Define and publish reusable reinvention blueprints, patterns, and accelerators that scale across multiple client engagements and grow the FDE practice.
• Lead architecture design sessions, executive workshops, and code-with sessions with client engineering and C-suite leadership teams.
• Codify delivery learnings, failure patterns, and engineering standards that shape the FDE practice.
• Design and deploy AI-powered procurement solutions including autonomous sourcing agents and predictive spend analytics.
• Translate S&P functional requirements into scalable AI architectures and production-ready agentic workflows.

Skills

Cloud-native engineering

Agentic AI deployments

AI platforms experience

Engineering leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer in Illinois to embed within client teams and make AI platforms work in real enterprise environments. You own outcomes—time-to-value, adoption, reliability, and scalability—across procurement and sourcing transformations.

The role requires 8+ years in engineering, 1 year in agentic solutions, and 3+ years with AI platforms, plus experience leading software teams. Travel up to 75% is expected.