Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer - FDE Senior Manager

Accenture offers a comprehensive benefits package and a culture focused on practical cybersecurity leadership in AI. This onsite role in Albany, NY places you inside client environments to secure AI systems, shape governance, and drive resilient deployments.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability insurance
• 401(k) plan
• Bonus opportunities
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off

Responsibilities

• Lead AI security architecture and threat modeling for production deployments across complex client environments including LLMs, multi-agent pipelines, RAG architectures, and MLOps infrastructure, owning the security design from assessment to hardened deployment
• Provide hands-on security engineering using agentic coding tools as the primary build environment; develop AI-powered detection, automated threat response tooling, security assessment frameworks, and governance automation using Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot
• Manage AI threat surface at program scale: implement OWASP LLM Top 10 controls, prompt hardening, model extraction prevention, adversarial input defenses, and AI supply chain security across concurrent client workstreams
• Architect and govern AI security controls across the enterprise stack: IAM for AI systems, data pipeline security, model serving security, and cross-system integration risk across AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Lead AI governance framework implementation: EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and model risk management applied to live production systems
• Shape AI reinvention security strategy for client CISO and CTO: build risk-adjusted investment cases, security architecture roadmaps, and AI governance operating models aligned to commercial outcomes
• Define and publish reusable security patterns, playbooks, and accelerators to scale across client engagements and grow the Secure AI practice
• Lead architecture design sessions, threat modeling workshops, and code-with sessions with client engineering and security leadership teams
• Contribute cybersecurity domain expertise in at least one discipline (AppSec, SecOps, IAM, cloud, GRC, or offensive security)
• Support proposal and SOW development, solution shaping, and client commercial engagement
• Facilitate executive workshops and communicate with C-suite and CISO level stakeholders
• Apply structured analytical thinking and hypothesis-driven problem decomposition
• Provide team leadership by developing and coaching managers and consultants through delivery

Requirements

• At least 10 years of engineering experience in production with depth in a cybersecurity discipline (AppSec, SecOps, cloud security, IAM, offensive security / penetration testing, or GRC)
• At least 2 years of hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in production
• At least 8 years of end-to-end security delivery ownership in a client-embedded or production environment
• At least 8 years working with cloud platform security fundamentals across AWS, Azure, or GCP, including IAM, network security, secrets management, and AI service security configurations
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience; if holding an Associate’s Degree, a minimum of 6 years of work experience is required

Technologies

• Claude Code
• Cursor
• GitHub Copilot
• AWS
• Azure
• GCP

Compensation

Salary range: USD 122,700 - 366,300 per year. Compensation varies by location, role, skill set, and experience. The posting is expected to remain open through 08/10/2026.