Senior Manager, Responsible AI Engineering & Governance

Archer; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a senior leader to operationalize Responsible AI across our lifecycle, embedding fairness, explainability, governance, and safety into engineering and MLOps pipelines. You will oversee large onshore and offshore teams delivering production‑grade AI and agentic AI solutions, spanning AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, with strict risk and compliance standards.

You will define technical standards, guide architecture across model providers, drive FinOps for AI, and partner with

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in software, AI/ML engineering, or data science, including architecture and technical leadership.
• Minimum of 6 years of experience architecting and delivering enterprise AI, agentic AI, or data science platforms in production, across major cloud and model providers.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience leading large, distributed teams, including direct experience managing both onshore and offshore delivery teams.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience delivering production‑grade AI use cases end to end, from prototype through deployment and operations, with governance and risk controls built in.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience with Responsible AI, AI governance, model risk management, or AI ethics, including hands‑on work on fairness, explainability, privacy, or safety evaluation.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience with LLMOps/MLOps at scale and multi‑cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, Google).
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years' work experience). If Associate's Degree, must have equivalent minimum 6-year work experience

Responsibilities

• Embed Responsible AI across the lifecycle — define and operationalize Responsible AI standards, including fairness and bias testing, explainability, model and data governance, privacy, safety evaluations, and human oversight, and build these controls directly into engineering and MLOps/LLMOps pipelines rather than bolting them on after the fact.
• Own AI risk and governance — serve as the senior technical authority on responsible use of generative and agentic AI, running model risk assessments, red‑teaming and safety evaluations, and advising clients and internal leadership on regulatory, ethical, and reputational AI risk.
• Lead large‑scale, global delivery teams responsibly — manage and mentor large onshore and offshore AI, data science, and engineering teams delivering production‑grade AI and agentic AI solutions, owning staffing, technical direction, quality, and delivery outcomes across geographies and time zones, with Responsible AI checkpoints built into every stage of delivery.
• Architect and build production AI and agentic systems with guardrails in place — personally guide the architecture, design, and delivery of enterprise AI, agentic AI, and data science platforms spanning multiple model providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, and others) and cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, Google), ensuring solutions are production‑grade, scalable, maintainable, and governed.
• Set technical standards and reference architectures grounded in Responsible AI — define reference architectures and technical standards for LLMOps, agentic AI orchestration, data science workflows, security, reliability, and cost governance across the AI estate, and hold engineering teams accountable to them.
• Drive cost and security governance — establish FinOps‑for‑AI cost optimization practices and embed AI security and governance controls into platform design and delivery.
• Shape responsible AI solutions and grow the business — partner with clients and pursuit teams to shape solutions, architectures, and delivery models for major AI and Responsible AI programs, and contribute to Accenture sales and proposal efforts when needed.
• Build organizational capability in Responsible AI — develop playbooks, training, and governance frameworks that raise the Responsible AI and technical delivery maturity of teams across the practice, and continue to deepen your own expertise in AI engineering, agentic AI, data science, and Responsible AI.

Skills

AI/ML leadership

Production AI

Governance

Risk management

MLOps

Cloud architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

LLMOps

Job description

Accenture is seeking a senior leader to operationalize Responsible AI across our lifecycle, embedding fairness, explainability, governance, and safety into engineering and MLOps pipelines. You will oversee large onshore and offshore teams delivering production‑grade AI and agentic AI solutions, spanning AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, with strict risk and compliance standards.

You will define technical standards, guide architecture across model providers, drive FinOps for AI, and partner with