AI Infrastructure Lead

📋 Job Overview

At Accenture Federal Services, nothing matters more than helping the US federal government make the nation stronger and safer and life better for people. Our 13,000+ people are united in a shared purpose to pursue the limitless potential of technology and ingenuity for clients across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations. Join Accenture Federal Services, a technology company within global Accenture. Recognized as a Glassdoor Top 100 Best Place to Work, we offer a collaborative and caring community where you feel like you belong and are empowered to grow, learn and thrive through hands-on experience, certifications, industry training and more. Join us to drive positive, lasting change that moves missions and the government forward!

🏢 About Accenture Federal Services

Accenture Federal Services is a technology company within global Accenture, recognized as a Glassdoor Top 100 Best Place to Work. We are united in a shared purpose to pursue the limitless potential of technology and ingenuity for clients across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations. We offer a collaborative and caring community where you feel like you belong and are empowered to grow, learn and thrive through hands-on experience, certifications, industry training and more.

🎯 The Role

The AI Infrastructure Lead is a senior technical strategist and hands‑on engineering leader responsible for designing, securing, modernizing, and operating the advanced AI infrastructure environments required to power mission‑critical Defense capabilities. This role drives infrastructure strategy, accelerates modernization across hybrid cloud and high‑performance computing (HPC) environments, and ensures secure, compliant, end‑to‑end orchestration of AI workloads from onboarding tools and datasets to operating compute clusters to deploying models into classified inference environments.

This individual will shape and lead growth across major AI infrastructure opportunities including SUNet 2.0 modernization, HITS‑U, and JTSO JEDAI while supporting delivery excellence once pursuits are won. Their work directly enables the creation of modern digital cores, hybrid cloud ecosystems, high‑assurance AI pipelines, and enterprise‑scale secure environments aligned with AFS cloud modernization patterns and DoD AI‑first mission priorities.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Lead AI Infrastructure Strategy for Major Defense Modernization Efforts
• Drive AI Infrastructure Growth & Pursuit Strategy
• Support Delivery Excellence Once Pursuits Are Won

📌 Required Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of hybrid and multi‑cloud architectures, cloud‑native platforms, and secure infrastructure modernization patterns.
• Experience with high‑performance computing, distributed training, and GPU‑accelerated workloads.
• Expertise in secure data onboarding, cross‑domain operations, and AI pipeline orchestration.
• Strong understanding of zero‑trust architectures, data governance, and compliant secure environments.
• Proven ability to operate at the intersection of mission needs, infrastructure engineering, and AI strategy.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience with SUNet 2.0, HITS‑U, and JTSO JEDAI infrastructure projects.
• Strong leadership and team management skills.
• Experience working with federal government clients.

🎁 Benefits

Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. The base pay range for this position in the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia, and the city of Cleveland is $148,800 - $306,500 USD. You can find more information on benefits here.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States. Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture Federal Services or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.