Senior AI-Driven Sourcing & Procurement Leader

Accenture; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 141,000 - 311,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) plan

Paid holidays & time off

Job summary

Accenture in Seattle, WA is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to own outcomes for production AI platforms inside client environments. You will lead architecture, adoption, and scale across diverse stakeholder groups, including procurement platforms like SAP Ariba, Coupa, and Jaggaer, while driving time-to-value and reliability.

The role requires deep expertise in cloud-native systems, agentic workflows, and AI platforms, with a track record of leading distributed engineering teams and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of engineering experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containerization, serverless)
• 1+ year designing and deploying agentic solutions (agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, workflows) in production
• 3+ years of deep expertise with AI platforms (OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, or open-source models)
• 8+ years of experience leading software engineering teams with delivery oversight and growth of direct reports
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience (minimum 12 years) or 6 years if associate degree

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise AI platform deployments across complex client environments, including major vendors, and own programme-level delivery outcomes
• Architect and govern AI solutions across identity, data, security, governance, and multi-system integration at programme scale
• Shape AI reinvention strategy for client leadership and connect cost-out objectives to scalable AI architectures
• Define reusable reinvention blueprints and accelerators that scale across client engagements

Skills

Cloud-native systems

Agentic solutions

AI platforms

Engineering leadership

OpenAI/Anthropic experience

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

APIs

Microservices

Containerization

Serverless architectures

Job description

Accenture in Seattle, WA is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to own outcomes for production AI platforms inside client environments. You will lead architecture, adoption, and scale across diverse stakeholder groups, including procurement platforms like SAP Ariba, Coupa, and Jaggaer, while driving time-to-value and reliability.

The role requires deep expertise in cloud-native systems, agentic workflows, and AI platforms, with a track record of leading distributed engineering teams and