Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer Manager

We Are

Accenture Security helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond, and recover along with all points of the security lifecycle. Cybersecurity challenges are different for every business in every industry. Leveraging our global resources and advanced technologies, we create integrated, turnkey solutions tailored to our client's needs across their entire value chain. Whether we’re defending against known cyberattacks, detecting and responding to the unknown, or running an entire security operations center, we will help companies build cyber resilience to grow with confidence. Our team of the security sector’s brightest people uses the coolest tech to out-hack the hackers and help clients build resilience from within. We blend risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security, and managed service solutions to rethink the entire security lifecycle. 

You Are

This is not a security consulting role. It is not a compliance advisory position. It is not a pen test engagement. A Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer is a production engineer who works embedded inside a client’s enterprise—shoulder to shoulder with their security and engineering teams—to make AI systems secure, governed, and resilient in real, complex organizational environments. You own outcomes: reduced attack surface, production-safe AI deployments, measurable security posture improvement.

Agentic coding is not a supporting skill for this role—it is the primary method of delivery. You use Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot as your standard operating environment. You build security tooling, detection systems, threat models, and governance frameworks with AI co-authoring the code alongside you. Engineers who treat AI tools as optional accelerators are not the profile. Engineers who cannot deliver without them are.

The Work

Cybersecurity FDEs operate as part of Accenture’s Reinvention Delivery Engine (RDE) Pod: a small, persistent, outcome-oriented team aligned to a client’s business domain or AI program. The pod operates in 90-day delivery cycles, owns end-to-end outcomes across build, deploy, and optimize, and embeds directly inside the client’s technology organization.

This opportunity is open to candidates based in Poland or the Czech Republic.

Key Responsibilities

AI Security Architecture & Engineering

• Lead the design and implementation of security architectures for production AI systems, including LLMs, multi-agent workflows, RAG solutions, and MLOps infrastructure.
• Develop AI-powered security solutions, including threat detection systems, automated response tools, security assessment frameworks, and governance automation, using tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot.

AI Threat Management & Cloud Security

• Lead threat modeling and implement security controls to address AI-specific risks, including prompt injection, model extraction, adversarial attacks, and AI supply chain vulnerabilities, aligned with OWASP LLM Top 10.
• Design and oversee enterprise AI security controls covering identity and access management, data pipelines, model deployment, and system integrations across AWS, Azure, or GCP.

AI Governance & Compliance

• Lead the implementation of AI governance and risk management frameworks, including the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and model risk management practices for production AI environments.

Client Advisory & Strategy

• Advise senior client stakeholders, including CISOs and CTOs, on AI security strategies, architecture roadmaps, governance operating models, and risk-based investment decisions.
• Lead architecture design sessions, threat modeling workshops, and hands-on coding sessions with client engineering and security leadership teams.

Practice Development

• Develop reusable security frameworks, playbooks, and accelerators to support consistent delivery across multiple client engagements and contribute to the growth of the Secure AI practice.

Travel may be required for this role.  The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

Here's what you need

• Extensive engineering experience in production environments with cybersecurity expertise in at least one area: AppSec, SecOps / detection engineering, cloud security, IAM, offensive security / penetration testing, or GRC.
• Hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in production environments. Practical implementation experience is essential; theoretical familiarity alone is not sufficient.
• Strong experience owning end-to-end security delivery in client-embedded or production environments. Experience limited to internal advisory or compliance activities is not sufficient.
• Solid experience with cloud platform security across at least one provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including IAM, network security, secrets management, and AI service security configurations.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience, with an Associate's degree also considered alongside relevant work experience.

Professional Skills Requirements

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

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.

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About Accenture

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