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Senior Healthcare Forward Deployed Engineer

$80,400–$316,300annualizedChicago, IL · Milwaukee, WI · +40 moreChicago, IL +41Senior

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About the job

Senior forward-deployed engineering role leading end-to-end AI programs inside health plans, PBMs, and payer operations, from architecture and interoperability through adoption.

Summary written from the posting.

What you’ll do

  • Lead concurrent AI workstreams across health plans, PBMs, and payer operations from architecture through adoption.
  • Define and govern multi-system AI architectures spanning administrative, claims, and clinical platforms.
  • Design safe, compliant, fair solutions with human oversight, transparency, and PHI safeguards.
  • Partner with payer executives on AI strategy, ROI backlogs, use-case prioritization, and adoption roadmaps.

What you’ll bring

  • 8+ years of hands-on cloud-native engineering and production deployment experience.
  • 8+ years coding in a general-purpose language such as Python or Java.
  • 1+ year designing and deploying agentic solutions in production.
  • 3+ years delivering AI or technology programs inside payer organizations.

Technologies

Claude · OpenAI · Vertex AI · Python · Terraform · Helm · FHIR · X12 · RAG · Kubernetes

About Accenture

Accenture helps enterprises and governments reinvent strategy, technology, operations and customer growth through global consulting, managed services, AI/data, cloud and ecosystem partnerships.

Public · 5000+ people

Pay and conditions

Posted pay
$80,400–$316,300Annualized in US dollars
Pay details

California $94,400 to $316,300 Colorado $94,400 to $273,200 Connecticut $94,400 to $273,200 District of Columbia $100,500 to $291,000 Illinois $87,400 to $273,200 Maine $80,400 to $232,800 Maryland $94,400 to $273,200 Massachusetts $94,400 to $291,000 Minnesota $94,400 to $273,200 New York $87,400 to $316,300 New Jersey $100,500 to $316,300 Ohio $87,400 to $253,000 Virginia $87,400 to $291,000 Washington $100,500 to $291,000

Location
Chicago, IL · Milwaukee, WI · +40 more
Visa sponsorship
Not available
Experience requirements
8+ years

The work, as we read it

Kind of work
Production engineering

Our reading of the posting, not the employer’s words.

How this compares

The middle of this range is $198,000, close to the $198,000 median for the 1,733 US FDE postings that state one. Half of those sit between $162,000 and $230,000.