Senior Sourcing & Procurement AI/Data Leader

Accenture PLC; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 133,000 - 311,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) plan

Bonus opportunities

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture plc is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer within its Sourcing & Procurement practice in Massachusetts. This role embeds inside client environments to drive AI platform deployments, time-to-value, adoption, and scalable solutions across complex processes.

You will own architectural design, governance, and integration across identity, data, security, and multi-system workflows, working with premier AI platforms and procurement tech stacks.

Qualifications

• Eight+ years of engineering experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containerization, serverless).
• At least 1 year designing and deploying agentic solutions in production.
• Three+ years of deep expertise with AI platforms (OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, or open-source models).
• Eight+ years of experience leading software engineering teams.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience (12 years total).

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise AI platform deployments across complex client environments.
• Own programme-level delivery outcomes: time-to-value, reliability, adoption velocity, scalability.
• Architect and govern enterprise AI solutions across the full technology stack.
• Define and publish reusable reinvention blueprints and accelerators.

Skills

Engineering experience

Cloud-native systems

Agentic solutions

AI platforms

Leadership

Bachelor’s degree

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

OpenAI

Anthropic

Claude

Vertex AI

SAP Ariba

Coupa

Ivalua

Jaggaer

Job description

Accenture plc is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer within its Sourcing & Procurement practice in Massachusetts. This role embeds inside client environments to drive AI platform deployments, time-to-value, adoption, and scalable solutions across complex processes.

You will own architectural design, governance, and integration across identity, data, security, and multi-system workflows, working with premier AI platforms and procurement tech stacks.