Senior AI Platform & Deployment Lead

Accenture; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 366,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture seeks Forward Deployed AI Engineers to join our team in Austin, Texas, embedding inside client enterprises to make complex AI platforms work in real-world settings. You own outcomes—time-to-value, adoption, reliability, and scalability—across multi-stakeholder environments.

Travel may be required (0–100%). You will lead architecture design sessions, executive workshops, and code-with sessions with client leadership, shaping the FDE practice and playbooks for AI reinvention.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years engineering experience with cloud-native systems.
• Minimum of 1 year of deep expertise in designing and deploying agentic solutions in production.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with AI platforms — OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, plus open-source models.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience programming in Python, Java, or equivalent; familiarity with evaluation tooling, logging, monitoring, and agent observability.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience deploying to production — CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and debugging.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in client communication and collaboration, including leading technical workshops.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise AI platform deployments across complex client environments — owning the full program from architecture through adoption.
• Own program-level delivery outcomes: time-to-value, reliability, adoption velocity, and scalability across multiple workstreams.
• Lead rapid experimentation at pace: drive ambiguous business problems to working production systems within days or weeks.
• Architect and govern enterprise AI solutions across the full technology stack: identity, data, security, governance, platform layer, and workflow integration.

Skills

Cloud-native systems

Agentic solutions design

AI platforms

Python/Java programming

CI/CD / IaC

Client communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Job description

Accenture seeks Forward Deployed AI Engineers to join our team in Austin, Texas, embedding inside client enterprises to make complex AI platforms work in real-world settings. You own outcomes—time-to-value, adoption, reliability, and scalability—across multi-stakeholder environments.

Travel may be required (0–100%). You will lead architecture design sessions, executive workshops, and code-with sessions with client leadership, shaping the FDE practice and playbooks for AI reinvention.