Secure AI Architect Senior Manager/Assoc Director

We Are

We are a global collective of innovators applying the New every day to improve the way the world works and lives. Help us show the world what’s possible as you partner with clients to unlock hidden value and deliver innovative solutions. Empowered with innovative tools, continuous learning, and a global community of diverse talent and perspectives, we drive success in a new business architecture that disrupts conventional practices. Our expertise spans 40+ industries across 120+ countries and impacts millions of lives every day. We turn ideas into reality.

We are Secure, Responsible AI & Data Protection professionals who enable trust, resilience, and compliance across the AI lifecycle and data estate; including securing AI systems and agents against emerging threats like prompt injection, model manipulation, and unauthorized agent actions, applying AI to strengthen cyber defense through faster detection, triage, and response, and protecting sensitive data through classification, data loss prevention, and governed access, so that enterprises can adopt AI and agentic capabilities confidently while safeguarding data and meeting their regulatory obligations.

Accenture Cybersecurity helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond and recover along all points of the security lifecycle. Cybersecurity challenges are different for every business in every industry. Leveraging our global resources and advanced technologies, we create integrated, turnkey solutions tailored to our clients’ needs across their entire value chain. Whether we’re defending against known cyberattacks, detecting and responding to the unknown, or running an entire security operations center, we will help companies build cyber resilience to grow with confidence.

You Are:

You are the delivery and client leadership layer of the Secure AI practice. You own workstreams or full engagement programs, bring specialized depth in one or more Secure AI domains, and operate as trusted advisors to senior client stakeholders. Each Senior Manager is expected to engage credibly across adjacent AI areas and should be able to drive sales opportunities from RFP/RFI to proposals and Statements of Work / staffing plans. Experienced leading client-facing engagements from scoping through delivery, develop and coach manager-level teams, contribute to pursuit activity, and maintain frontier expertise that keeps Accenture's methods current and differentiated. They translate complex AI security concepts into clear, business-relevant narratives for director and C-suite audiences. Contribute to the offering development of Secure AI services and asset / accelerator development to differentiate Accenture Cyber Security.

The Work (Key Responsibilities):

Cybersecurity Secure AI solutions that transform clients’ Enterprise AI adoption and secure their AI-enabled operations

Design, set-up, and test prototype and production secure AI deployment solutions and ensure that all the pieces work together seamlessly

Work with the project team, team leaders, project delivery leads, and client stakeholders to create stand-out [ AI Security and Governance ] offerings powered by [LLM platforms, frontier grade models, agentic frameworks, and AI/MCP gateways (Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Azure OpenAI as representative examples]

Develop strong relationships with clients and gain the trust of key advisors

Make the business case for the [ most effective and appropriate secure AI] solution recommended to the client

Pitch in on Accenture sales efforts when needed

Continue to learn and develop your technical [foundational AI, AI security, emerging technology] and related business expertise

Deliver services that meet Accenture Project quality specifications

Ability to take initiative to communicate, interact, and collaborate with others to ensure that all aspects of a task are addressed

Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 75% to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

Here’s What You Need

• •Minimum 8 years of experience in Cybersecurity with domain expertise in at least one discipline (AppSec, SecOps, IAM, cloud, GRC, or offensive security)
• •Minimum 1 year of experience in at least one Secure AI domain: AI security architecture, adversarial AI, or cloud/infrastructure security for AI
• •Minimum 1 year of experience in Agentic coding fluency: Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or Codex — used in daily delivery practice
• •Minimum 1 year of experience in AI architecture: LLM deployment patterns, agentic/multi-agent systems, RAG pipelines, MLOps, A2A, AI Gateways, MCP Gateways
• •Minimum 1 year of experience in AI-specific security: OWASP LLM Top 10, prompt injection, model extraction, supply chain attacks
• •Minimum 1 year of experience with AI governance frameworks: EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, model risk management
• •Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)

Bonus Points If You Have

• •Build strong client relationships and partner with organizations to reimagine their business through innovation
• •Collaborate across diverse communities—including domain experts, engineers, and designers
• •Proposal and SOW development, solution shaping, and client commercial engagement
• •Executive workshop facilitation and C-suite / CISO-level communication
• •Structured analytical thinking and hypothesis-driven problem decomposition
• •Team leadership: developing and coaching managers and consultants through delivery

• Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
• We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 10/07/2026.

Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here: U.S. Employee Benefits | Accenture

Role Location Annual Salary Range

California $132,500 to $338,300

Colorado $132,500 to $292,200

Connecticut $132,500 to $292,200

District of Columbia $141,100 to $311,200

Illinois $122,700 to $292,200

Maine $112,900 to $249,000

Maryland $132,500 to $292,200

Massachusetts $132,500 to $311,200

Minnesota $132,500 to $292,200

New York $122,700 to $338,300

New Jersey $141,100 to $338,300

Ohio $122,700 to $270,600

Virginia $122,700 to $311,200

Washington $141,100 to $311,200

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com

What We Believe

We have an unwavering commitment to diversity