Federal AI Strategy & Governance Leader

Accenture Federal Services; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 115,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services seeks a leader to shape enterprise AI & data strategy for confidential federal programs, defining architecture, governance, and responsible AI to operate safely at scale.

You’ll partner with CXOs, legal/compliance, security, and product teams to set standards, implement controls, and accelerate mission outcomes, moving from policy to production in regulated environments.

Qualifications

• Experience developing AI or data strategy or platform governance within government or multi-stakeholder environments.
• Strong understanding of federal policies related to data, AI, privacy, cybersecurity, and digital modernization.
• Expertise in enterprise architecture concepts and AI governance frameworks.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Proven track record turning strategy into operational systems with measurable outcomes.
• Experience assessing AI readiness, risks, and ethical considerations.
• Must be a US Citizen

Responsibilities

• Translate mission goals into portfolio roadmaps, target architectures, and adoption plans.
• Define reference architectures (cloud/hybrid/on-prem), data access patterns, metadata/lineage, and integration points.
• 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 seeks a leader to shape enterprise AI & data strategy for confidential federal programs, defining architecture, governance, and responsible AI to operate safely at scale.

You’ll partner with CXOs, legal/compliance, security, and product teams to set standards, implement controls, and accelerate mission outcomes, moving from policy to production in regulated environments.