You Are:

A seasoned technology delivery leader who thrives at the intersection of enterprise platform deployment, program governance, and client engagement. You bring deep experience managing complex, multi-workstream technology implementations in cloud and client-hosted environments - and you are energized by the challenge of building scalable delivery practices in fast-moving, ambiguous contexts.

You are as comfortable presenting delivery health to a client CIO as you are in a detailed infrastructure architecture discussion with an engineering team. You take ownership naturally, communicate proactively, and build the kind of trust with clients and internal stakeholders that keeps complex programs on track. You think like a product team - building assets and practices that compound in value over time - and you care deeply about making every deployment better than the last.

The Work:

As Associate Director, Forward Deployment Engineering - North America, you will be the delivery and program management backbone of the NA FDE team, owning governance, planning, and operational rigor across all active RIAI client deployments. Key responsibilities include:

• Lead end-to-end delivery governance across active Reinvention AI client deployments in North America - from mobilization and environment setup through integration validation and operational handover
• Build and maintain integrated delivery plans, milestone tracking frameworks, dependency maps, and risk registers for each client engagement
• Establish and own operating rhythms - standups, deployment reviews, executive status reporting, escalation protocols - across the FDE team and with client counterparts
• Lead pre-engagement discovery with client IT, infrastructure, and architecture teams; own the client readiness assessment process covering AWS accounts, VPC and networking, identity and SSO, DNS, model access, and security posture
• Drive creation and continuous improvement of deployment runbooks, operational playbooks, and reusable delivery artifacts - capturing lessons learned from every engagement and feeding them back into the team's approach
• Identify manual steps and gaps across the deployment sequence; partner with Platform Engineering to drive automation and standardization
• Produce and deliver executive delivery health reports for Accenture and client leadership; facilitate high-stakes sessions including risk escalations, go/no-go decisions, and operational handover discussions
• Lead, coach, and mentor program managers and senior engineers on the FDE team; coordinate resource planning and capacity across concurrent client engagements
• Serve as the NA FDE team's primary escalation point for delivery risk, stakeholder alignment, and execution blockers requiring senior leadership engagement

Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 25% to 75% depending on business need and client requirements.

Here's What You Need:

• Minimum of 12 years of experience in technology delivery management, technical program management, or enterprise platform implementation, including cloud platform deployments, infrastructure provisioning, and cross-functional team leadership in a professional services or systems integration environment
• Minimum of 2 years of experience designing, deploying, or operationalizing Generative AI solutions, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) in enterprise environments
• Minimum of 1 year of experience implementing AI agent frameworks or agentic workflow integrations, including multi-agent orchestration, tool use, or LLM-based automation pipelines (e.g., LangGraph, LangChain, AutoGen, or equivalent)
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate's Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)

Bonus Points If You Have:

• Experience deploying platforms on AWS using Kubernetes (EKS), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or OpenTofu), and GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows
• Familiarity with enterprise identity and SSO configuration (Keycloak, Okta, or Microsoft Entra ID) in multi-tenant environments
• PMP, SAFe Practitioner, or equivalent program management certification
• AWS Cloud Practitioner certification or higher
• Experience with agentic AI platforms such as LangGraph, Temporal.io, or MCP-based tool orchestration
• Prior experience in a forward deployment engineering or specialist implementation team within a technology consulting or professional services firm

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 11/30/2026.

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 $163,000 to $434,000
Colorado $163,000 to $375,000
Connecticut $163,000 to $375,000
District of Columbia $173,500 to $399,300
Illinois $150,900 to $375,000
Maine $138,800 to $319,400
Maryland $163,000 to $375,000
Massachusetts $163,000 to $399,300
Minnesota $163,000 to $375,000
New York $150,900 to $434,000
New Jersey $173,500 to $434,000
Ohio $150,900 to $347,200
Virginia $150,900 to $399,300
Washington $173,500 to $399,300