Senior Manager, Responsible AI Engineering & Governance

Accenture PLC; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Long-term disability coverage

401(k) plan

Bonus opportunities

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture plc is seeking a Responsible AI Senior Manager to lead the design, delivery, and governance of production-grade AI and agentic AI solutions in a global, distributed team. You will embed fairness, transparency, safety, and compliance into architectures, pipelines, and operations across onshore and offshore delivery.

You will guide architecture reviews, governance committees, and cross-functional teams to build scalable, secure AI systems while advancing Responsible AI playbooks,

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).
• Minimum of 1 year of hands-on experience designing and building agentic AI architectures, including multi-agent orchestration, tool use, and autonomous workflow design
• 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.
• 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 and cloud ecosystems, 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

Distributed teams

Architectural design

Governance & risk

LLMOps/MLOps

Cloud platforms

Responsible AI

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

OpenAI

Anthropic

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Job description

Accenture plc is seeking a Responsible AI Senior Manager to lead the design, delivery, and governance of production-grade AI and agentic AI solutions in a global, distributed team. You will embed fairness, transparency, safety, and compliance into architectures, pipelines, and operations across onshore and offshore delivery.

You will guide architecture reviews, governance committees, and cross-functional teams to build scalable, secure AI systems while advancing Responsible AI playbooks,