AI SDLC Forward Deployed Engineer - Consultant

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

As an FDE at the Consultant level, you will act as a hands-on technical contributor to Accenture's most strategic and emerging accounts. You will embed within client organisations to design, build, and ship advanced product, both traditional and agentic, owning delivery outcomes end-to-end across both proof-of-value and production products and platforms.

What you'll do:

• Deliver production-quality work — Build and ship applications inside client systems, using AI SDLC workflows and processes ensuring solutions meet enterprise requirements for performance, security, and reliability.
• Develop technical assets — Create reusable, production-ready artefacts or tools including MCP servers, sub-agents, agent orchestration frameworks, and evaluation tooling that can be deployed across client workflows.
• Support enterprise deployments — Play a key technical role in rollouts of frontier AI capabilities, in particular AI in the SDLC processes, ensuring smooth integration with existing IT infrastructure, workflows applications.
• Accelerate adoption — Work shoulder-to-shoulder with client engineering and product teams to drive meaningful AI adoption, removing blockers and closing skill gaps in real time. This will include up-skilling people at Accenture and our clients with AI centric engineering.
• Maintain cutting-edge expertise — Stay ahead of the curve on LLM capabilities, with a focus on the SDLC, agentic frameworks, evaluation methodologies, and the AI product development ecosystem.
• Build strong relationships — Develop trusted working relationships with client teams and AI ecosystem partners, proactively contributing to new opportunities for AI value creation throughout the engagement lifecycle.

Full details and application on the official Accenture careers page.