Senior Sourcing & Procurement AI Engineer

Accenture; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 130,000 - 338,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture in the United States is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer who is a production-focused practitioner embedded with client teams. You will own AI platform deployments, drive outcomes like time-to-value and reliability, and shape multi-year AI adoption roadmaps across complex enterprise environments.

You will lead architecture discussions, implement scalable AI architectures, and collaborate with CTOs, CFOs, and CISOs to translate business needs into concrete, production-ready AI

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years of engineering experience with cloud-native systems.
• 1+ year designing and deploying agentic solutions in production.
• 3+ years of deep experience with AI platforms (OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI).
• 8+ years of experience leading software engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise AI platform deployments across complex multi-stakeholder client environments—Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, SAP, or Palantir—owning the full programme from architecture through adoption.
• Own programme-level delivery outcomes: time-to-value, reliability, adoption velocity, and scalability across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Lead rapid experimentation at pace: drive ambiguous business problems to working production systems in days or weeks across complex enterprise environments.
• Architect and govern enterprise AI solutions across the full technology stack: identity, data, security, governance, platform layer, and multi-system workflow integration at programme scale.
• Shape AI reinvention strategy for client CTO, CFO, and CISO: build value architecture, ROI backlogs, use case prioritisation frameworks, and multi-year AI adoption roadmaps; engage CPOs and Chief Procurement Officers on AI-enabled procurement transformation strategies.
• Define and publish reusable reinvention blueprints, patterns, and accelerators that scale across multiple client engagements and grow the FDE practice.
• Lead architecture design sessions, executive workshops, and code-with sessions with client engineering and C-suite leadership teams.
• Codify delivery learnings, failure patterns, and engineering standards that shape the FDE practice and enable the next generation of forward deployed engineers.
• Design and deploy AI-powered procurement solutions including autonomous sourcing agents, intelligent supplier risk monitoring, predictive spend analytics, and contract lifecycle automation within enterprise environments.
• Translate S&P functional requirements — strategic sourcing, category management, procure-to-pay, supplier performance — into scalable AI architectures and production-ready agentic workflows

Skills

AI platforms

Engineering leadership

Agentic solutions

Production deployments

Cross-functional

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

OpenAI

Claude

Vertex AI

Job description

Accenture in the United States is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer who is a production-focused practitioner embedded with client teams. You will own AI platform deployments, drive outcomes like time-to-value and reliability, and shape multi-year AI adoption roadmaps across complex enterprise environments.

You will lead architecture discussions, implement scalable AI architectures, and collaborate with CTOs, CFOs, and CISOs to translate business needs into concrete, production-ready AI