Forward Deployed Engineer Associate Manager | Mid-Level | Full time
Job No. R00343073 | Multiple Locations
We are:
The Advanced Technology Centers (ATCs) is the engine for reinvention in our clients’ transformation journey. Powered by more than 255,000* people across 24 countries, ATCs will provide our clients with seamless access to industry insights and innovative technology solutions.
Stronger together!
The Advanced Technology Centers (ATCs) make tremendous impact in solving our clients’ business problems leveraging Innovation, Intelligence, Industry insights, new IT and new technology skills. Now, with the global environment changing at a faster pace, our clients are facing unprecedented challenges, and they need us more than ever before. As a Network, ATCs are positioned to unlock greater opportunities and exponential value for our clients.
The value for our clients and our people
For our clients, the Network provides the strength of our geographic diversity, greater resilience, and seamless access to the deepest industry knowledge, the latest in Gen AI solutions, and tech expertise from around the world.
For our people, it brings an opportunity to shape truly boundaryless career paths in a highly collaborative team of experts where they can learn from each other and solve the world’s most complex client challenges
You are:
An AI Native Engineer with experience building cloud-native solutions, and deep expertise in designing and deploying agentic systems, especially for enterprise environments. You are a critical thinker that thrives in ambiguity, delivering concrete results by designing, building, and running custom AI agents that augment workflows and scale across modern infrastructure. You’ll help shape the playbook for how enterprises adopt and scale AI-native engineering globally.
The Work:
You’ll embed directly with clients — acting as both technologist and trusted advisor. You’ll partner with stakeholders to define use cases, rapidly prototype, and deploy agentic workflows that are robust, secure, and operational in complex enterprise domains. Often, these will be completely net new platforms and systems that need to be stitched together in our clients' environments alongside our Ecosystem partners.
Responsibilities:
Design and engineer enterprise-ready AI agents encompassing retrieval, orchestration, policy-based routing, tool invocation, evaluation harnesses, and lifecycle observability.
AI Platform Integration: Develop abstraction layers across AI providers (Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, etc. ) to enable seamless integration and enablement.
Cloud-Native Engineering: Leverage containerization (Kubernetes, Docker), microservices, serverless, event-driven architectures, CI/CD, and observability to deliver scalable AI-native systems.
Domain-Specific Workflows: Tailor and deploy agentic applications across verticals — e.g., finance, healthcare, retail — addressing domain-specific processes via intelligent automation.
Client Engagement: Conduct design workshops, POCs, and code-with sessions to shape data-driven agent workflows with stakeholders, fostering trust and adoption.
Measure & Improve: Define and use key metrics, test harnesses, and evaluation plans to measure agent accuracy, latency, safety, and cost effectiveness.
Knowledge Sharing: Craft reusable patterns, documentation, and best practices to influence internal assets and client roadmaps
This is a hybrid role in Columbus, OH and requires 3 days per week in the office. May consider qualified applicants in Tampa, FL; Atlanta, GA; or Dallas, TX.
Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 25% to 75% depending on business need and client requirements.
Minimum of 3 years engineering experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containerization, serverless).
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Minimum of 1 year expertise in designing and deploying agentic solutions (agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, workflows) in production environments.
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Minimum of 3 years experience with AI platforms — OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, plus open-source models — including building abstraction layers to manage multi-provider pipelines.
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Minimum of 5 years experience programming in Python, Java, or equivalent; familiarity with evaluation tooling, logging, monitoring, and agent observability.
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Minimum of 5 years experience deploying to production — CI/CD, infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm), monitoring, and debugging.
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Minimum of 5 years experience with client communication and collaboration, including being capable of leading technical workshops and delivering under ambiguity.
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Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)
Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 08/28/2026.
Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here:
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Role Location Annual Salary Range
California $73,800 to $261,500
Cleveland $68,300 to $209,200
Colorado $73,800 to $225,900
District of Columbia $78,500 to $240,600
Illinois $68,300 to $225,900
Maine $62,800 to $192,500
Maryland $73,800 to $225,900
Massachusetts $73,800 to $240,600
Minnesota $73,800 to $225,900
New York $68,300 to $261,500
New Jersey $78,500 to $261,500
Virginia $68,300 to $240,600
Washington $80,200 to $240,600
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