Senior Sourcing & Procurement Data & AI Leader

Accenture; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 141,000 - 311,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture seeks a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to work embedded with client teams in the Sourcing & Procurement practice. You will own outcomes, drive AI platform deployments, and translate platform capabilities into measurable business value within enterprise environments.

You will collaborate with CTOs/CFOs/CISOs, shape AI adoption roadmaps, and deliver scalable AI architectures across the full technology stack. Travel up to 75% is typical for this role.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of engineering experience with cloud-native systems, including APIs, microservices, containerization, and serverless architectures.
• Minimum of 1 year designing and deploying agentic solutions in production environments.
• Minimum of 3 years of deep expertise with AI platforms (Anthropic, OpenAI, Vertex AI, or open-source models).
• Minimum of 8 years of experience leading software engineering teams, including delivery oversight.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise AI platform deployments across complex client environments, owning architecture through adoption and platform integrations.
• Own programme-level delivery outcomes: time-to-value, reliability, adoption velocity, and scalability.
• Lead rapid experimentation to production systems across complex environments.
• Architect and govern enterprise AI solutions across identity, data, security, governance, and multi-system integrations.
• Shape AI reinvention strategy for client leadership; develop value architectures and AI adoption roadmaps.
• Define and publish reusable reinvention blueprints and accelerators for multiple client engagements.

Skills

Cloud-native engineering

AI platforms experience

Leadership of software teams

Agentic solutions design

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

APIs

Microservices

Containerization

Serverless architectures

OpenAI

Anthropic

Vertex AI

Job description

Accenture seeks a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to work embedded with client teams in the Sourcing & Procurement practice. You will own outcomes, drive AI platform deployments, and translate platform capabilities into measurable business value within enterprise environments.

You will collaborate with CTOs/CFOs/CISOs, shape AI adoption roadmaps, and deliver scalable AI architectures across the full technology stack. Travel up to 75% is typical for this role.