Senior Sourcing & Procurement Data & AI Lead

Accenture; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture seeks Forward Deployed AI Engineers to embed within client environments and drive real AI value at scale. You will own deployments from architecture to adoption, delivering production-grade AI platforms that improve time-to-value, reliability, and procurement outcomes.

The role demands deep AI platform experience, strong leadership, and hands-on engineering across cloud-native stacks. You will work with clients to translate strategic sourcing, procure-to-pay, and supplier management

Qualifications

• 8+ years of engineering experience with cloud-native systems, APIs, microservices, containerization, and serverless architectures.
• 1 year of designing and deploying agentic solutions (agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, workflows) in production environments.
• 3+ years of deep expertise with AI platforms (OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, or open-source models), including building abstraction layers for multi-provider pipelines.
• 8+ years of experience leading software engineering teams, including delivery oversight and mentoring.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience required.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise AI platform deployments across complex multi-stakeholder client environments, owning architecture through adoption.
• Own programme-level delivery outcomes: time-to-value, reliability, adoption velocity, and scalability across multiple workstreams.
• Lead rapid experimentation at pace to deliver working production systems quickly.
• Architect and govern enterprise AI solutions across identity, data, security, governance, and platform layers.
• Shape AI reinvention strategy for client executives; build value architectures and AI adoption roadmaps.
• Define and publish reusable reinvention blueprints, patterns, and accelerators for scale.
• Lead architecture design sessions and executive workshops with client leadership.
• Codify delivery learnings and engineering standards to grow the FDE practice.
• Design and deploy AI-powered procurement solutions including autonomous sourcing agents and predictive spend analytics.
• Translate S&P requirements into scalable AI architectures and production-ready agentic workflows.

Skills

AI platform expertise

Leadership experience

Production engineering

Cloud/native systems

Agentic solutions design

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

OpenAI

Anthropic

Vertex AI

Job description

Accenture seeks Forward Deployed AI Engineers to embed within client environments and drive real AI value at scale. You will own deployments from architecture to adoption, delivering production-grade AI platforms that improve time-to-value, reliability, and procurement outcomes.

The role demands deep AI platform experience, strong leadership, and hands-on engineering across cloud-native stacks. You will work with clients to translate strategic sourcing, procure-to-pay, and supplier management