Senior AI Platform & Deployment Leader

Accenture; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 133,000 - 366,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking Forward Deployed AI Engineers to embed with enterprise clients, delivering production-grade AI platforms and scalable agentic workflows. You will own outcomes—time-to-value, adoption, reliability and scalability—across complex multi-stakeholder environments.

Travel may be required as needs vary by client engagement. This role offers exposure to leading AI tools (OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI) and cloud-native architectures, with a focus on building scalable, measurable business

Qualifications

• 10+ years engineering experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containerization, serverless).
• 1+ year of deep expertise in designing and deploying agentic solutions in production environments.
• 2+ years of experience with AI platforms (OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, and open-source models).
• 10+ years of experience programming in Python, Java, or equivalent; familiarity with evaluation tooling, logging, monitoring, and agent observability.
• 10+ years of experience deploying to production—CI/CD, infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm), monitoring, and debugging.
• 10+ years of experience in client communication, including leading technical workshops in ambiguous contexts.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent; AI certifications or agentic tool experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise AI platform deployments across complex client environments, owning architecture through adoption.
• Own program-level delivery outcomes: time-to-value, reliability, adoption velocity, scalability with KPI alignment.
• Lead rapid experimentation to produce production systems in days or weeks across enterprise settings.
• Architect and govern enterprise AI solutions across identity, data, security, governance, and integration at program scale.
• Shape AI reinvention strategy for client execs with value architecture and ROI backlogs.
• Define reusable reinvention blueprints and accelerators to scale the FDE practice.
• Lead architecture design sessions and executive workshops with client teams.
• Codify delivery learnings and engineering standards to elevate the FDE practice.

Skills

Cloud-native systems

Agentic solutions

AI platforms

Python/Java

Production deployment

Client communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Helm

CI/CD pipelines

Observability tools

Job description

Accenture is seeking Forward Deployed AI Engineers to embed with enterprise clients, delivering production-grade AI platforms and scalable agentic workflows. You will own outcomes—time-to-value, adoption, reliability and scalability—across complex multi-stakeholder environments.

Travel may be required as needs vary by client engagement. This role offers exposure to leading AI tools (OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI) and cloud-native architectures, with a focus on building scalable, measurable business