Senior Agentic Identity Security Manager

Accenture•St. Louis, MO

4d•$80,400 - $293,800•Hybrid

About The Position

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. This Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Identity Platform is a technical leadership role. You will not necessarily be writing code day to day, and on many engagements you won't be. What you will do is read it, review it, and make design calls that depend on understanding how the system actually works rather than how it was described in a deck. When a service fails or a design is wrong, you should be able to go look for yourself. We are not hiring a delivery manager who signs off on technical work. We are hiring someone with real engineering depth who is senior enough to set direction. Enterprises are deploying AI agents faster than anyone has figured out how to secure them. An agent authenticates to twelve systems, spawns subagents, calls tools on behalf of a user who left the company last month, and holds credentials nobody inventoried. The identity primitives that industry spent twenty years building for humans and service accounts don't cleanly extend to actors that are autonomous, ephemeral, and delegating authority to each other. We're building the platforms that solve this: agent registries, delegated authorization models, runtime attribution, and policy engines that make decisions in single-digit milliseconds. Some of it ships to Fortune 100 clients. Some of it becomes the reference architecture the industry copies. There's no vendor product to install because in several of these areas the product doesn't exist yet. You'd be a Forward Deployed Engineer, which means you're in the room with the client while the system runs in their environment. At this level you're the person a client's principal engineers argue with, and the person who decides what we build versus what we buy.

Requirements

Minimum of 8 years of professional experience building and shipping production software
Hands-on technical work within the last 24 months, counting development, prototyping, code review, or technical design review
Minimum of 4 years of professional development in at least one of Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, Java, or C++
Minimum of 4 years designing and building concurrent or distributed systems that ran in production
Minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience deploying and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including containers and CI/CD pipelines
Minimum of 2 years of technical leadership of at least 2 engineers, including code review and design review responsibility
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) OR (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)
At least 2 production systems you owned end to end, covering design, implementation, deployment, and ongoing operation

Nice To Haves

Experience with OAuth 2.0, OIDC, token exchange, SAML, SPIFFE, PKI, or mTLS
Experience with MCP, agent frameworks, or LLM application development
Experience in identity and access management, IGA, PAM, secrets management, or non-human identity
Applied cryptography experience, including enough to know what you don't know
Participation in a production on-call rotation
Client-facing or consulting experience, including work with executive stakeholders
Experience making and documenting build-versus-buy decisions
Ability to explain a hard technical idea to a CISO and hold your own in a design review with engineers who know their piece better than you do

Responsibilities

Own the technical design for an engagement, including the decisions you'll be held to when they're wrong
Stay close enough to the agentic identity stack to review the implementation critically and prototype in it when that's the fastest way to settle a question
Set the technical direction the engineers on your engagement follow, and review their code
Reverse-engineer how identity actually works in a client environment, then design what it should be
Make the build-versus-buy calls and document why, in a form that survives your leaving the project
Prototype against emerging standards and vendor betas, often before documentation exists
Build the reference implementations and technical content that become how the practice does this work
Grow the engineers around you, primarily by working alongside them rather than reviewing from a distance