Administrative Operations Specialist - Senior

Accenture Federal Services; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services, headquartered in Chantilly, VA, is seeking a senior operations professional to shape program administration, prepare executive-ready documents, and mentor teams across defense and civilian missions.

You will analyze processes, drive workflow optimization, and deliver high-quality client deliverables, reporting to program leadership, with a strong emphasis on security, governance, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in administrative operations.
• Strong background in documentation and process analysis.
• Proven ability to optimize workflows and secure operational practices.
• Experience preparing high-quality management plans and customer deliverables.
• Excellent communication skills including briefing leadership.
• Mentor and guide team members.

Responsibilities

• Prepare management plans, executive ready reports, and customer facing documentation.
• Analyze, develop, and refine program administrative operating plans and procedures.
• Present insights, findings, and recommendations to program and executive leadership.
• Provide direction and technical mentorship to team members.
• Drive system and workflow optimization to improve operational efficiency.
• Support secure and standardized administrative practices across teams.

Skills

Administrative operations

Documentation

Process analysis

Mentorship

Executive briefing

Team leadership

Education

Degree required

Tools

Workflow tools

Reporting platforms

Process automation

Job description

At Accenture Federal Services, nothing matters more than helping the US federal government make the nation stronger and safer and life better for people.Our 13,000+ people are united in a shared purpose to pursue the limitless potential of technology and ingenuity for clients across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations.

Join Accenture Federal Services, a technology company within global Accenture. Recognized as a Glassdoor Top 100 Best Place to Work, we offer a collaborative and caring community where you feel like you belong and are empowered to grow, learn and thrive through hands-on experience, certifications, industry training and more.

Join us to drive positive, lasting change that moves missions and the government forward!

What You’ll Do

• Prepare management plans, executive ready reports, and customer facing documentation.
• Analyze, develop, and refine program administrative operating plans and procedures.
• Present insights, findings, and recommendations to program and executive leadership.
• Provide direction and technical mentorship to team members.
• Drive system and workflow optimization to improve operational efficiency.
• Support secure and standardized administrative practices across teams.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Strong background in administrative operations, documentation, and process analysis.
• Proven ability to optimize workflows and support secure operational practices.
• Experience preparing high-quality management plans and customer deliverables.
• Excellent communication skills, including briefing leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and guide team members.
• Degree required

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in federal, defense, or highly regulated environments.
• Familiarity with administrative governance, compliance, and standardization frameworks.
• Proficiency with workflow tools, reporting platforms, or process automation technologies.
• Strong analytical and continuous improvement mindset.

Preferred Skills

• In-house custom developed application
• Advanced AI, GenAI & Multi-Model Engineering o Multi-model and multi-modality orchestration (reasoning, perception, memory, tool execution)
• Temporal, spatial, geographic, quantitative, and computer vision AI implementation
• Named Entity Recognition (NER), contextual entity extraction, and resolution
• Multi-step retrieval and structured output generation
• Complex data parsing and streamlined ingestion
• Deep source citation and traceable analytic outputs
• Data Architecture & ETL
• Vector, graph, and multi database orchestration
• Automated ETL pipeline creation, scheduling, and optimization
• Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) at the data layer
• Provenance and end to end data lineage tracking
• Schema aligned ingestion and normalization of diverse structured and unstructured data
• Enterprise Infrastructure & CrossDomain Solutions
• Air gapped, hybrid, and on premise operational environments
• Container orchestration and distributed systems management (Kubernetes)
• Locally hosted GPU servers and hyperconverged nodes
• Multitenant CrossDomain Solutions (CDS)
• Application Development & Integration
• UI, backend, and middleware engineering (TypeScript, React, Python, FastAPI, LanceDB, lance graph, PostgreSQL, Temporal.io, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Integration of reasoning components, retrieval systems, databases, and AI / GenAI services
• Use of modern programming languages and frameworks

Eligibility Requirements

• US Citizen
• Active TS or higher clearance

As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides reasonable ranges of compensation for hired roles based on labor costs in the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia, and the city of Cleveland. The base pay range for this position in these locations is shown below. Compensation for roles at Accenture Federal Services varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. You can find more information on benefits here. We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.

The pay range for the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia, and the city of Cleveland is:

$135,200—$278,500 USD

What We Believe

As a company wholly dedicated to serving the US federal government, we bring together the best talent to help reinvent how federal agencies operate and deliver greater value for their mission and the American people. We have an unwavering commitment to creating a culture in which all our people are respected, feel a sense of belonging, and have equal opportunity. As a business imperative, every person at Accenture Federal Services has the responsibility to create and sustain a culture where everyone feels welcomed and included. This is grounded in our core values and our experience that hiring and developing great people who reflect different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds is key to driving innovation and delivering the results that our clients and the country count on.

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Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States.

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture Federal Services or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process.

The Company will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. Additionally, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the Company’s legal duty to furnish information.

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