Forward Deployed Engineer Manager

Accenture Italia is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer who will embed with client teams to deploy AI platforms into real enterprise environments. You will own outcomes such as time-to-value, reliability, adoption velocity, and scalability, working across multi-stakeholder settings and across provider stacks.

The role emphasizes translating platform capabilities into measurable business value, leading architecture sessions, and shaping reinvention roadmaps.

Lead enterprise AI platform deployments across complex client environments, owning the full programme from architecture through adoption. Own programme-level delivery outcomes: time-to-value, reliability, adoption velocity, and scalability across multiple workstreams. Lead rapid experimentation to produce production systems within days/weeks across enterprise contexts. Architect and govern enterprise AI solutions across the full stack: identity, data, security, governance, platform, and integrations. Shape AI reinvention strategy for client executives: value architecture, ROI backlogs, and roadmaps. Define and publish reusable reinvention blueprints and accelerators for multiple engagements. Lead architecture design sessions, executive workshops, and code-with sessions with client teams. Codify delivery learnings and engineering standards to guide future FDE practice. Extensive engineering experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containerization). Deep expertise deploying agentic AI solutions in production. Experience with AI platforms (OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI) and multi-provider pipelines. Previous end-to-end delivery ownership in client-embedded environments.