Senior Manager, Enterprise AI Platform & Deployments

Accenture; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking Forward Deployed AI Engineers who will embed inside client enterprises to make complex AI platforms work in real-world environments. You own outcomes—time-to-value, adoption, reliability, and scalability—across multiple workstreams, not just milestones.

You will design, build, and run agentic AI solutions that translate platform capability into measurable business value, partnering with CTOs, CFOs, and CISOs to drive multi-year adoption roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years engineering experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containerization, serverless).
• Minimum of 1 year of deep expertise in designing and deploying agentic solutions in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise AI platform deployments across complex client environments, owning full program from architecture through adoption.
• Own program-level delivery outcomes: time-to-value, reliability, adoption velocity, scalability with commercial metrics.
• Lead rapid experimentation to deliver working production systems in days or weeks across enterprise environments.
• Architect and govern enterprise AI solutions across the full tech stack: identity, data, security, governance, platform layer, multi-system integration.

Skills

Enterprise AI

Production engineering

Python/Java

AI platform design

Client workshops

Ambiguity handling

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

OpenAI

Anthropic

Vertex AI

Terraform

Helm

CI/CD

Job description

Accenture is seeking Forward Deployed AI Engineers who will embed inside client enterprises to make complex AI platforms work in real-world environments. You own outcomes—time-to-value, adoption, reliability, and scalability—across multiple workstreams, not just milestones.

You will design, build, and run agentic AI solutions that translate platform capability into measurable business value, partnering with CTOs, CFOs, and CISOs to drive multi-year adoption roadmaps.