Senior Forward-Deployed Identity Security Engineer

Accenture; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 87,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

401(k) plan

Bonus opportunities

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer, Identity Platform, to partner with clients in shaping and delivering secure identity solutions. The role emphasizes technical depth, design leadership, and hands-on prototyping, with potential travel and close client engagement.

You will be in the room with client engineers, making design calls, reviewing code, and deciding what to build versus buy, often before documentation exists.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of professional experience building and shipping production software.
• Hands-on technical work within the last 24 months, counting development, prototyping, code review, or technical design review.
• Minimum of 4 years of professional development in at least one of Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, Java, or C+.
• Minimum of 4 years designing and building concurrent or distributed systems that ran in production.
• Minimum of 3 years of hands‑on experience deploying and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including containers and CI/CD pipelines.
• Minimum of 2 years of technical leadership of at least 2 engineers, including code review and design review responsibility.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) OR (minimum 12 years) work experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical design for an engagement, including the decisions you'll be held to when they're wrong.
• Stay close enough to the agentic identity stack to review the implementation critically and prototype in it when that's the fastest way to settle a question.
• Set the technical direction the engineers on your engagement follow, and review their code.
• Reverse-engineer how identity actually works in a client environment, then design what it should be.
• Make the build-versus-buy calls and document why, in a form that survives your leaving the project.
• Prototype against emerging standards and vendor betas, often before documentation exists.
• Build the reference implementations and technical content that become how the practice does this work.
• Grow the engineers around you, primarily by working alongside them rather than reviewing from a distance.

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer, Identity Platform, to partner with clients in shaping and delivering secure identity solutions. The role emphasizes technical depth, design leadership, and hands-on prototyping, with potential travel and close client engagement.

You will be in the room with client engineers, making design calls, reviewing code, and deciding what to build versus buy, often before documentation exists.