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With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.\nWe believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.\n“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” - Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO\nWe are growing our Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) capability to meet our clients' need and demand for hands-on, outcome-oriented AI delivery from PoV to Production. If you are energised by building real things with real clients and by the responsibility that comes with using AI in the reinvented SDLC at enterprise scale, this is the role for you.\nThe Role\nAs 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.\nYou will be an early member of our Industry & Enterprise FDE capability, working alongside senior FDEs to help shape the model, learn and apply repeatable patterns, and contribute to raising the bar for what enterprise AI deployment looks like in practice.\nWhat You'll Do\nDeliver 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.\nDevelop 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.\nSupport 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.\nAccelerate 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.\nMaintain 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.\nBuild 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.\nRepresent Accenture in the field - Champion responsible, safe AI usage and uphold Accenture's standards in every client interaction.\nWhat We're Looking For\nExperience\n2-4 years of experience in a technical engineering role with client-facing or consulting exposure - Software Engineer, Solutions Engineer, technical consultant, or equivalent.\nExperience delivering production applications with real business impact, ideally in enterprise environments.\nPractical experience working with large language models (ideally in a enterprise or start-up setting): prompt engineering, loop engineering, skill creation, agent development and use, evaluation frameworks, workflows, and deployment.\nTechnical Skills\nSolid programming proficiency (we are open to any experience but primary languages include: TypeScript and the JavaScript ecosystem, Python and Java). However, flexibility with languages and tools is important with our clients wanting to move to tech stacks including Go, Rust etc. A willingness to go deep into unfamiliar tech stacks is preferred.\nHands-on experience building and deploying with AI agents and workflows.\nWorking familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and system integration patterns and CI/CD.\nConsulting & Client Skills\nHigh agency; comfortable navigating ambiguity, working across complex organisations, and contributing without a well-defined playbook.\nStrong communication skills; able to participate in technical discovery, support stakeholder alignment, and translate AI concepts for non-technical audiences.\nTechnically minded and curious. You pick up new tools and methods quickly, understand how systems fit together, and can test an idea by building a small working version.\nPreferred\nDomain exposure in media, or another enterprise vertical.\nFamiliarity with AI safety, responsible AI frameworks, or enterprise AI governance.\nFamiliarity with AI deployment infrastructure and MLOps tooling.\nAbout Accenture\nAccenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services-creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.Visit us atwww.accenture.com\nEqual Employment Opportunity Statement\nWe believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences. 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