Senior Identity Security Architect & Platform Leader

Accenture; Walnut Creek (CA); On-site; USD 94,000 - 294,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Security is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer specializing in Identity Platform leadership. You will guide design decisions, review implementations, and shape architectures in client environments, often in environments with evolving standards.

This role emphasizes deep engineering expertise over pure delivery management and involves meaningful collaboration with client principal engineers. Travel may be required; you will work closely with Fortune 100 clients, prototyping against

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 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

Python

Go

Rust

TypeScript

Java

C++

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Accenture Security is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer specializing in Identity Platform leadership. You will guide design decisions, review implementations, and shape architectures in client environments, often in environments with evolving standards.

This role emphasizes deep engineering expertise over pure delivery management and involves meaningful collaboration with client principal engineers. Travel may be required; you will work closely with Fortune 100 clients, prototyping against