Senior AI-Driven Sourcing & Procurement Leader

Accenture PLC; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking Forward Deployed AI Engineers to join our Sourcing & Procurement practice. You will be embedded inside client environments, owning AI platform deployments from architecture through adoption, and delivering time-to-value, reliability, and scalable outcomes across complex, multi-stakeholder settings.

The role requires deep expertise in AI platforms, cloud-native engineering, and leadership of software teams, plus travel up to 75% as projects span multiple industries.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of engineering experience with cloud-native systems, including APIs, microservices, containerization, and serverless architectures.
• Minimum of 1 year of experience designing and deploying agentic solutions in production environments.
• Minimum of 3 years of deep expertise with AI platforms (OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, or open-source models).
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise AI platform deployments across complex multi-stakeholder client environments — Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, SAP, or Palantir — owning the full programme from architecture through adoption, including Sourcing & Procurement platforms such as SAP Ariba, Coupa, Ivalua, or Jaggaer
• Own programme-level delivery outcomes: time-to-value, reliability, adoption velocity, and scalability across multiple concurrent workstreams, with commercial metrics attached
• Lead rapid experimentation at pace: drive ambiguous business problems to working production systems in days or weeks across complex enterprise environments
• 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; engage CPOs and Chief Procurement Officers on AI-enabled procurement transformation strategies, connecting cost-out objectives to scalable AI architectures
• 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 and enable the next generation of forward deployed engineers
• Design and deploy AI-powered procurement solutions including autonomous sourcing agents, intelligent supplier risk monitoring, predictive spend analytics, and contract lifecycle automation within enterprise environments
• Translate S&P functional requirements — strategic sourcing, category management, procure-to-pay, supplier performance — into scalable AI architectures and production-ready agentic workflows

Skills

Engineering leadership

AI platforms

Cloud-native

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Accenture is seeking Forward Deployed AI Engineers to join our Sourcing & Procurement practice. You will be embedded inside client environments, owning AI platform deployments from architecture through adoption, and delivering time-to-value, reliability, and scalable outcomes across complex, multi-stakeholder settings.

The role requires deep expertise in AI platforms, cloud-native engineering, and leadership of software teams, plus travel up to 75% as projects span multiple industries.