Senior AI-Powered Sourcing & Procurement Leader

Accenture; Walnut Creek (CA); On-site; USD 133,000 - 338,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement plan

Job summary

Accenture in California is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to work embedded with a client’s teams, delivering production AI platforms and driving time-to-value, reliability, and adoption. You will own outcomes, not milestones, and collaborate with procurement and engineering leadership.

The role requires deep cloud engineering, AI platform experience, and ability to operate in complex, multi-stakeholder environments, including shaping ROI-focused strategies and defining scalable AI

Qualifications

• 8+ years engineering experience with cloud-native systems
• 1 year designing and deploying agentic solutions in production
• 3+ years of AI platform experience (OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI)

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise AI platform deployments across client environments, owning architecture through adoption.
• Own programme-level delivery outcomes: time-to-value, reliability, adoption velocity, and scalability.
• Architect and govern AI solutions across identity, data, security, governance, and integration at programme scale.
• Shape AI reinvention strategy for client leaders and publish reusable blueprints and accelerators.
• Lead architecture design sessions, workshops, and code-with sessions with client leadership.
• Codify delivery learnings and engineering standards to grow the FDE practice.

Skills

Cloud-native systems

APIs & microservices

Containerization

Serverless architectures

AI platforms experience

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

OpenAI

Anthropic

Vertex AI

Job description

Accenture in California is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to work embedded with a client’s teams, delivering production AI platforms and driving time-to-value, reliability, and adoption. You will own outcomes, not milestones, and collaborate with procurement and engineering leadership.

The role requires deep cloud engineering, AI platform experience, and ability to operate in complex, multi-stakeholder environments, including shaping ROI-focused strategies and defining scalable AI