Federal AI Strategy & Governance Leader

Accenture Federal Services Careers Marketplace; Washington; On-site; USD 115,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services is seeking a strategic leader to drive AI and data strategy for confidential federal programs, focusing on architecture, governance, and responsible AI across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments.

You will partner with CXOs, legal/compliance, security, and product teams to implement standards, controls, and scalable platforms that are safe, auditable, and mission-ready.

Responsibilities

• Translate mission goals into portfolio roadmaps, target architectures, and adoption plans; pick the right patterns (LLM, RAG, agents, analytics) for each use case.
• Define reference architectures (cloud/hybrid/on-prem), data access patterns, metadata/lineage, and integration points that respect Zero Trust and privacy constraints.
• Operationalize policy-as-code, approval workflows, audit trails, red-team & safety checks, and model/data lifecycle controls aligned to federal standards.
• Stand up evaluation harnesses (quality, safety, latency, cost), model selection criteria, and guardrails (prompt management, filtering, attribution/citations).
• Author playbooks, templates, SDKs, and governance blueprints that scale across multiple mission teams driving consistency and speed.
• Partner with product, security/compliance, data, and engineering to deliver outcomes; facilitate decision forums and executive storytelling with measurable KPIs.
• Ensure programs meet SLOs (reliability, latency, safety, cost), pass audits, and ship in weeks not quarters with progressive delivery in regulated environments.
• Contribute to proposals, briefings, and internal capability building; mentor teams on responsible AI and governed data practices.

Job description

Accenture Federal Services is seeking a strategic leader to drive AI and data strategy for confidential federal programs, focusing on architecture, governance, and responsible AI across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments.

You will partner with CXOs, legal/compliance, security, and product teams to implement standards, controls, and scalable platforms that are safe, auditable, and mission-ready.