Secure AI Governance Lead — GenAI & ML

Accenture Global; Canberra; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave (18 weeks)

Career development program

Global career opportunities

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Senior Consultant to deliver AI governance, risk and control design services for clients in Australia. You will translate technical AI architectures into practical risk models that span models, data, inference and outputs, collaborating with client security, risk, engineering and data teams.

You will lead security risk assessments, define controls, and support operationalising governance frameworks across GenAI and ML workloads, with a focus on delivering measurable

Qualifications

• 3+ years in tech risk, cyber security or technical consulting delivering client-facing engagements.
• Strong understanding of AI/ML and Generative AI architectures.
• Experience mapping technical security controls, not just process controls.
• Ability to communicate complex risk across models, data and infrastructure to customers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including visual outputs.

Responsibilities

• Deliver Secure AI strategy and risk consulting projects for clients.
• Lead complex projects and educate clients on AI use cases with ROI.
• Conduct high-level workshops to identify security risks and concerns.
• Perform AI and model risk assessments across GenAI and ML workloads.
• Map technical controls across AI models, platforms, and pipelines.
• Define controls for data ingestion, training, inference, and outputs.
• Assess security across AI infra, MLOps and GenAIOps pipelines.
• Translate AI architectures into actionable risk, control and assurance artefacts.
• Align technical controls to security, risk and regulatory frameworks.
• Support clients in operationalising AI governance and control models.
• Contribute to repeatable Secure AI risk frameworks and templates.

Skills

AI governance

Risk consulting

Security controls

Communication skills

GenAI/ML concepts

Tools

Visio

PowerPoint

Word

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Senior Consultant to deliver AI governance, risk and control design services for clients in Australia. You will translate technical AI architectures into practical risk models that span models, data, inference and outputs, collaborating with client security, risk, engineering and data teams.

You will lead security risk assessments, define controls, and support operationalising governance frameworks across GenAI and ML workloads, with a focus on delivering measurable