Senior Data Scientist

We Are:

Accenture’s Global Responsible AI team within the Global Data & AI Practice. AI is becoming more pervasive, more powerful and more accessible. With these new opportunities come increased risks. We work with leading organizations to ensure AI is designed, built and deployed in a manner that engenders trust and adheres to laws, regulations and ethical norms. Our Responsible AI strategy will enable us to embed responsibility into all of Accenture’s data and AI activities. We’re developing and deploying differentiated IP and Responsible AI solutions with our ecosystem partners. We’ll be engaging regulators to help shape the policy agenda, conducting pioneering research with academia and offer training and resources to our clients through the Responsible AI Academy. The risks of AI are real and well- known . Let’s help our clients turn those risks into opportunities.

You are:

We are seeking an experienced to design, develop, operationalize, and govern enterprise-scale artificial intelligence solutions.

You will bring broad expertise across advanced analytics, statistical modelling, machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, computer vision, generative AI, and agentic AI, combined with a strong understanding of Responsible AI, AI governance, policy, standards, regulation, and risk management.

You will work with clients to translate emerging AI technologies, regulatory requirements, and Responsible AI principles into practical business outcomes. This includes helping organizations establish and implement AI principles, policies, governance structures, operating models, risk-management frameworks, controls, assurance mechanisms, and technology-enabled Responsible Senior Data Scientist AI capabilities.

The ideal candidate combines technical depth, business acumen, consulting experience, experimentation discipline, regulatory awareness, and strong stakeholder leadership. You will be comfortable moving between hands-on technical problem solving, executive-level advisory, client delivery, business development, and thought leadership.

You will work across industries and functional areas, helping clients take AI initiatives from strategy and discovery through experimentation, engineering, deployment, governance, monitoring, and continuous improvement. You will also contribute to Accenture’s perspectives on emerging AI technologies, governance practices, standards, policy, and regulation.

The work:

• Partner with business, product, data, engineering, architecture, cybersecurity, legal, privacy, risk, compliance, and operations teams to identify, assess, and prioritize high-value AI opportunities.

• Translate complex business challenges into clearly defined analytics, machine learning, generative AI, agentic AI, and decision-science problem statements.

• Perform exploratory data analysis, statistical analysis, hypothesis testing, experimental design, feature engineering, predictive modelling, and optimization.

• Develop supervised and unsupervised machine learning solutions, including classification, regression, clustering, forecasting, recommendation, anomaly detection, optimization, and related techniques.

• Design and implement deep-learning solutions using neural networks, transformers, convolutional architectures, sequence models, representation-learning techniques, and multimodal approaches.

• Build natural language processing and computer vision solutions for document intelligence, information extraction, semantic search, knowledge discovery, image analysis, and multimodal understanding.

• Develop generative AI applications using large language models and foundation models, including prompt engineering, embeddings, vector search, retrieval-augmented generation, fine-tuning, model adaptation, guardrails, and evaluation.

• Design agentic AI solutions that combine reasoning, planning, memory, tools, workflows, human oversight, and single- or multi-agent orchestration to execute complex business processes.

• Evaluate commercial, open-source, and internally developed AI models and platforms based on performance, accuracy, robustness, cost, latency, scalability, security, privacy, explainability, maintainability, and operational fit.

• Design experimentation frameworks, evaluation methodologies, benchmarks, test datasets, acceptance criteria, and performance metrics for traditional, generative, and agentic AI systems.

• Collaborate with data engineers, software engineers, machine learning engineers, architects, cybersecurity specialists, and platform teams to operationalize scalable AI solutions using MLOps, GenAIOps, and LLMOps practices.

• Establish monitoring and observability for model performance, drift, bias, fairness, hallucination, toxicity, safety, latency, cost, resilience, and overall system reliability.

• Assess AI use cases and systems for risk across areas including fairness, transparency, explainability, privacy, security, robustness, human oversight, accountability, and regulatory compliance.

• Design and implement Responsible AI operating models, governance structures, policies, standards, controls, risk-assessment methodologies, assurance processes, and supporting technology capabilities.

• Advise clients on the implications of emerging AI legislation, regulation, standards, regulatory guidance, and industry practices.

• Maintain awareness of major developments in AI policy, regulation, technical standards, assurance, and governance and translate these developments into actionable guidance for clients.

• Support organizations in establishing AI inventories, classification and risk-tiering approaches, governance workflows, control libraries, documentation standards, testing frameworks, and ongoing monitoring.

• Act as a subject matter expert in Responsible AI within broader data, AI, cloud, digital, and enterprise-transformation programs.

• Shape and lead Responsible AI and AI-governance engagements, from initial assessment and strategy through design, implementation, operationalization, and continuous improvement.

• Engage with prospective clients to identify opportunities, shape solutions, develop proposals, and support sales conversations related to AI, Generative AI, Agentic AI, and Responsible AI.

• Lead client workstreams and multidisciplinary delivery teams, managing scope, outcomes, risks, dependencies, stakeholders, and delivery quality.

• Communicate analytical findings, AI-system behavior, limitations, risks, trade-offs, and business implications to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Provide guidance to senior Accenture leaders and client executives on AI strategy, adoption, governance, risk, regulation, and emerging technology.

• Engage with relevant industry, policy, standards, regulatory, academic, and ecosystem stakeholders where appropriate.

• Develop and present Accenture perspectives, methodologies, accelerators, research, and thought leadership on AI and Responsible AI.

• Mentor data scientists and other practitioners and contribute to reusable frameworks, standards, assets, accelerators, and communities of practice.

• Support clients with AI strategy, capability development, technology selection, organizational change, workforce adoption, and responsible scaling of AI.

Travel may be required for this role.  The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

Here’s what you need:

A minimum of 6 years of relevant professional experience across data science, artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, Responsible AI, technology consulting, AI governance, or related disciplines.

You should have:

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in data science, statistics, mathematics, computer science, engineering, economics, operations research, or another quantitative or technical discipline.

• Significant experience applying data science, machine learning, advanced analytics, or artificial intelligence to real-world business problems.

• Strong understanding of probability, statistics, experimental design, optimization, machine learning theory, and quantitative problem solving.

• Proficiency in Python and commonly used data science and machine learning libraries such as pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, XGBoost, or equivalent technologies.

• Experience designing, developing, validating, deploying, and monitoring machine learning models in production environments.

• Practical experience with generative AI, including large language models, foundation models, prompt engineering, embeddings, semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation, and model evaluation.

• Experience working with structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, including textual, image, multimodal, transactional, or time-series datasets.

• Strong SQL skills and experience working with modern data platforms, distributed-processing technologies, cloud platforms, and enterprise data environments.

• Understanding of software engineering practices including APIs, version control, automated testing, containerization, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and production observability.

• Experience with AI governance, Responsible AI, model risk, data ethics, privacy, security, compliance, or related risk-management disciplines.

• Working knowledge of AI-related policy, standards, regulation, regulatory guidance, or assurance approaches.

• Experience translating regulatory, ethical, policy, or risk requirements into practical governance processes, operating models, controls, and technology requirements.

• Strong client-facing consulting skills, including structured problem solving, executive communication, stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, and storytelling.

• Experience shaping and delivering complex projects or workstreams involving multidisciplinary teams.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical, regulatory, and risk topics to senior stakeholders.

In addition, you should bring meaningful experience in one or more of the following environments:

• Management or technology consulting involving AI, data, Responsible AI, governance, risk, or regulatory transformation.

• Government, legislative bodies, regulators, standards-development organizations, policy institutions, or multilateral organizations.

• Corporate Responsible AI, AI governance, model risk, compliance, legal, privacy, technology-risk, or AI assurance teams.

• Designing and implementing governance operating models, organizational structures, policies, standards, processes, risk frameworks, and controls.

• Academic or applied research focused on Responsible AI, AI governance, AI ethics, AI safety, AI policy, or related disciplines, with demonstrated practical application.

Priority skills/knowledge:

• Responsible AI and AI governance

• AI regulation, policy, standards, and compliance

• Generative AI and Agentic AI

• Data and AI ethics

• AI risk assessment and assurance

• AI governance operating models

• Governance structures, policies, standards, and controls

• Model and AI-system evaluation

• Stakeholder and executive management

• Management consulting

• Project and workstream leadership

• Technology strategy and transformation

Bonus points if you have:

• A doctorate in a quantitative, technical, or closely related discipline.

• Experience designing or deploying agentic AI systems, including tool-using models, orchestration frameworks, workflow automation, reasoning systems, or multi-agent architectures.

• Experience with knowledge graphs, graph analytics, causal inference, reinforcement learning, simulation, operations research, or mathematical optimization.

• Familiarity with vector databases, model gateways, model registries, feature stores, evaluation platforms, AI observability tools, and AI-control technologies.

• Experience with major cloud and AI platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.

• Deep knowledge of AI governance, data privacy, cybersecurity, model risk management, algorithmic accountability, or emerging AI regulation and standards.

• Experience developing AI risk-taxonomy, AI inventory, impact-assessment, control-testing, assurance, or monitoring frameworks.

• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams or delivering enterprise-wide AI, data, governance, risk, or technology-transformation programs.

• Published academic research, industry papers, white papers, standards contributions, patents, or other recognized thought leadership in Responsible AI, AI governance, AI policy, AI ethics, or related fields.

• Experience engaging with regulators, standards bodies, policymakers, industry associations, or academic institutions.

• Ability to independently lead complex client workstreams from problem definition through implementation.

• Experience managing resources and stakeholders within a matrixed global organization.

Success in this role will be measured by:

• Business value generated by AI and data-science solutions.

• Quality, accuracy, reliability, robustness, adoption, and production performance of deployed AI systems.

• Effective identification and mitigation of AI-related risks.

• Compliance with applicable Responsible AI policies, governance requirements, standards, and regulatory obligations.

• Successful implementation and adoption of AI-governance operating models, processes, controls, and assurance mechanisms.

• Reduction in operational cost, cycle time, risk exposure, or manual effort.

• Improvement in customer, employee, citizen, or broader business outcomes.

• Scalability and reusability of AI architectures, methodologies, governance frameworks, and accelerators.

• Successful delivery of client engagements and workstreams against agreed outcomes.

• Contribution to client relationships, proposals, business development, and market-facing thought leadership.

• Ability to influence senior client and Accenture stakeholders on AI strategy, Responsible AI, risk, and governance.

• Development, mentoring, and growth of data science and AI talent.

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 09/30/2026.

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:

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New York                                           $87,400 to $293,800

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Virginia                                             $87,400 to $270,300

Washington                                      $100,500 to $270,300

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