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AICC Senior Technical Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering (Senior Manager)

Huron Consulting · Chicago, IL · $165,000–$190,000 a year · Full time

Posted Sep 24, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Tell me about a time you led engineers embedded with business teams. How did you keep their work aligned with what the business needed?

What they are checking: Forward deployed work means serving business teams directly, so they want proof the candidate stays close to users.

How do you coach an engineer who is technically strong but struggles to talk with non-technical users?

What they are checking: Coaching and evaluation are named duties, and this skill gap is common in forward deployed roles.

How do you grow a small engineering team without losing quality or culture?

What they are checking: The role includes growing the team, so they want concrete hiring and onboarding practices.

What would you do

A business team asks for an AI tool, but the real problem looks like bad data or process. What do you do?

What they are checking: Whether they can redirect a request toward what will actually work without losing the team's trust.

Two engagements both need your best engineer next week. How do you decide?

What they are checking: Whether they weigh business impact, commitments and the engineer's growth when making tradeoffs.

How do you keep delivery on track when business teams keep changing what they want?

What they are checking: Whether they can manage scope and expectations in fast-moving internal engagements.

About the work

How do you match engineers to engagements based on skills, availability and growth?

What they are checking: Staffing decisions are part of the role, and they want thoughtful judgment beyond filling slots.

Walk me through an AI solution you built yourself recently. What was the hardest technical part?

What they are checking: The posting expects the lead to stay technical enough to build on the hardest projects.

How do you evaluate whether an LLM-based tool is accurate enough to put in front of consultants?

What they are checking: Whether they use real evaluation methods rather than demos to judge AI quality.

How do you handle data security and confidentiality when building AI tools that touch client information?

What they are checking: Consulting firms hold sensitive client data, so they want secure design to be a habit.

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The full job description

As published by Huron Consulting.

Huron is redefining what a global consulting organization can be. Advancing new ideas every day to build even stronger clients, individuals and communities. We’re helping our clients find new ways to drive growth, enhance business performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. And, we’re developing strategies and implementing solutions that enable the transformative change they need to own their future. As a member of the Huron corporate team, you’ll help to evolve our business model to stay ahead of market forces, industry trends and client needs. Our accounting, finance, human resources, IT, legal, marketing and facilities management professionals work collaboratively to support Huron’s collective strategies and enable real transformation to produce sustainable business results. Join our team and create your future. This person leads the AICC engineers who work inside Huron's business teams during US and Canada hours. They run and grow the engineering team, own delivery on their engagements, stay close to the business teams they serve, and stay technical enough to build on the hardest projects themselves. Key Responsibilities • Lead the team. Independently lead the assigned engineers in the US and Canada window. Match people to engagements with the AICC Lead, assign work to fit availability, motivation, and growth, coach and evaluate the team, and own its delivery quality, its culture, and keeping good people. • Run the work in sprints. Lead sprint planning, agree a clear Definition of Ready and Definition of Done with the business and product owners, run the review demo, and hand the finished work to production. • Own engagement delivery. Be accountable for the solution end to end: the architecture and its quality, meeting the goals set, defining who does what, and resolving technical risks as they arise. • Stay hands-on where it counts. On the hardest projects, build alongside the engineer, and uphold and improve the team's technical standard. • Own the business relationship. Own the relationship with business stakeholders up to executive level on your engagements. Before a build starts, agree what success looks like and how it will be measured. Make sure each team sets one clear priority and names who owns the result afterward. Present the value case to executive leadership. • Reuse what works. Turn good builds into reusable tools, standards, and methods the next project starts from. • Grow the bench. Help recruit and select talent, and plan and run technical training across the team. • Show the value in plain numbers. Measure before and after: hours saved, less rework, more capacity, faster answers. Preferred Qualifications • Current and credible with agentic engineering tools and IDEs (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, or similar). • Solid full-stack background: React and JavaScript / TypeScript on the front end, and Python (FastAPI, Django, Flask) on the back end. • Has built and shipped AI solutions (LLMs and agents) into real systems, and knows how to test that work so the team can stand behind its quality. • Cloud (Azure, AWS) and containers (Docker, Kubernetes), with sound CI/CD, testing, and secure development practices. • Agile and Scrum delivery, including sprint planning and working in sprints. • Depth across several technical areas, and a track record of mentoring others in them. • Comfortable in fast-paced, changing environments with shifting priorities and unclear problems. • Senior people trust you. You'll push back on a badly framed problem and defer on what you don't know. • Can translate business workflows into working solutions. Required Skills • 8 to 10+ years building or delivering technical work, including 2+ years leading engineers. • Comfortable estimating, planning, and running several engagements of different scale at once. • Clear writer and speaker who builds trust fast inside a team, and is credible presenting to executive leadership. • Can train and grow Huron staff, including the engineers you lead, and contribute to recruiting and hiring. • Aware of budget and capacity, with a practice-level eye for where cost and hours can come down on future work. • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience. Flexible living locations across the US, with travel as needed. The estimated base salary for this job is $165,000 - $190,000 USD. The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron’s pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range for this job is $189,750 - $237,500 USD. The job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs. The salary range information provided is in accordance with applicable state and local laws regarding salary transparency that are currently in effect and may be implemented in the future. #LI-CL1 #LI-Remote Position Level Senior Manager Country United States of America

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