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# Forward Deployed Engineer

- **Company:** Accenture
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Abstraction Layers, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Open Source Technology, Software Engineering, Containerization, AI Platforms, Serverless Computing, Microservices
- **Published:** June 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.apply4u.co.uk/jobs/x/40150228/

## About the Role

Basic Qualifications 8-10 years engineering experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containerization, serverless).Minimum of 1 years of deep expertise in designing and deploying agentic solutions (agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, workflows) in production environments.Minimum of 7 years of experience with AI platforms - OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, plus open-source models - including building abstraction layers to manage multi-provider pipelines.8-10 years of experience leading software engineering teams: overseeing delivery, allocating resources across workstreams, and owning the professional development of direct reports\"Demonstrated end-to-end delivery ownership in a client-embedded environment, internal projects, vendor labs, or team-only deployments do not qualifyProven ability to articulate business value: can quantify the impact of deployments in terms a CFO would recognize and act onExperience presenting to and building
trust with senior client stakeholders, CTO, CFO, or CISO levelNon-linear profiles are expected and welcomed, assessment is based on demonstrated deployment experience and outcome ownership, not CV pattern matchingPeople lead responsibilities: experience managing, developing, and performance-managing a team of engineers; setting individual development plans and conducting career conversations

## Description

patterns, and accelerators that scale across multiple client engagements and grow the FDE practiceLead architecture design sessions, executive workshops, and code-with sessions with client engineering and C-suite leadership teamsCodify delivery learnings, failure patterns, and engineering standards that shape the FDE practice and enable the next generation of forward deployed engineers


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