Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer - FDE Senior Manager

Accenture offers comprehensive benefits and a collaborative, onsite opportunity in Philadelphia to work directly with client teams on production cybersecurity for AI deployments. This role embeds inside client environments to design, build, and govern secure AI deployments using agentic coding and AI governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI security architecture and threat modeling for production agentic deployments across complex multi-stakeholder client environments, including LLM systems, multi-agent pipelines, RAG architectures, and MLOps infrastructure, owning the full security design from assessment through hardened deployment
• Deliver hands-on security engineering using agentic coding tools as the primary build environment: build AI powered detection systems, automated threat response tooling, security assessment frameworks, and governance automation using Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot in daily delivery practice
• Own AI specific threat surface management at programme scale: OWASP LLM Top 10 controls, prompt injection hardening, model extraction prevention, adversarial input defences, and AI supply chain security across concurrent client workstreams
• Architect and govern AI security controls across the enterprise stack: identity and access for AI systems, data pipeline security, model serving security, and multi-system integration risk across cloud platforms (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 that scale across multiple 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
• Demonstrate cybersecurity domain expertise in at least one discipline: AppSec, SecOps, IAM, cloud, GRC, or offensive security
• Contribute to 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
• Lead teams by developing and coaching managers and consultants through delivery
• Travel may be required for this role, with the amount of travel varying from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of engineering experience in production environments with depth in at least one cybersecurity discipline (AppSec, SecOps / detection engineering, cloud security, IAM, offensive security / penetration testing, or GRC)
• Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in production; theoretical familiarity does not qualify
• Minimum 8 years of end-to-end security delivery ownership in a client embedded or production environment; internal advisory or compliance-only roles do not qualify
• Minimum 8 years working with cloud platform security fundamentals across at least one provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP): IAM, network security, secrets management, and AI service security configurations
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience (minimum 12 years). 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

Benefits

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

Professional Skills Requirements

• Proven ability to communicate security risk in business terms, translating threat exposure into risk-adjusted investment rationale that a CISO or CFO would act on
• People leadership experience: managing, developing, and performance-managing a team of engineers; setting individual development plans and conducting career conversations

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