Senior Forward-Deployed Identity Security Engineer

Accenture; Morristown (NJ); On-site; USD 101,000 - 294,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Security is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Identity Platform, to provide technical leadership in security design and implementation there of. The role emphasizes reading, reviewing, and making design calls based on real system behavior rather than slides.

The position is not merely a delivery manager role; it requires deep engineering expertise, ability to set direction, and strong client-facing skills. Travel may be required.

Qualifications

• Minimum 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.

Skills

Production software

Hands-on development

Python

Go

Rust

TypeScript

Java

C++

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Containers

CI/CD pipelines

Technical leadership

Build-vs-buy decisions

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

OAuth 2.0

OIDC

SAML

SPIFFE

PKI

mTLS

Job description

Accenture Security is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Identity Platform, to provide technical leadership in security design and implementation there of. The role emphasizes reading, reviewing, and making design calls based on real system behavior rather than slides.

The position is not merely a delivery manager role; it requires deep engineering expertise, ability to set direction, and strong client-facing skills. Travel may be required.