Infrastructure & Capital Projects - Data Center Senior Risk Manager, ANS

Accenture Infrastructure & Capital Projects helps develop and deliver major infrastructure, capital projects, and data centers using real-world expertise, digital innovation, and AI. The Senior Risk Manager will establish and manage risk programs for owner-furnished equipment and general contractors, facilitate risk assessments, track mitigation actions, support cost and schedule risk analysis, and advise project leadership on high-impact risks.

Responsibilities:

• You'll identifying, capturing, and maintaining project risks, issues, and opportunities in the risk register
• You'll be facilitating risk workshops with project teams, contractors, and SMEs to gather inputs and validate assumptions
• You'll be performing qualitative assessments and contributing data for quantitative cost/schedule risk analysis
• You'll be tracking mitigation actions, owners, and due dates to ensure accountability and closure
• You'll be preparing risk reports, dashboards, and executive summaries to inform project controls and leadership reviews
• You'll be monitoring emerging risks, early warning indicators, and changes in project scope or conditions
• You'll be supporting schedule risk reviews
• You'll be coordinating with planning, cost, estimating, engineering, and construction delivery teams to embed risk into decision-making
• You'll be escalating high-impact risks and recommending mitigation options for leadership approval
• You'll be ensuring adherence to the enterprise risk framework, tools, and governance standards
• Based on feedback collected from stakeholders, refine the existing OFE risk taxonomy and risk framework to categorize risks
• Conduct risk identification workshops and calibrate risks to finalize potential risks associated with OFE and document the identified cost and schedules risks into an OFE risk register in e-Builder
• Design / recommend specific controls to prevent or reduce the impact of identified OFE risks
• Outline a schedule for periodically reviewing the OFE risk register and make adjustments as required. Track the progress of outstanding mitigation actions and provide updates to leadership
• Identify and compile a comprehensive inventory of all GCs utilized in data center construction projects by conducting a thorough review of contracts, bid documents, project plans and interviews with project stakeholders, assess their criticality based on their impact on the overall functionality and performance of the data center
• Based on feedback collected from stakeholders, refine the existing GC risk taxonomy to categorize risks
• Conduct risk identification workshops and calibrate risks to finalize top GC risks for O&M and Construction projects into a GC risk register in e-Builder
• Design / recommend specific controls to prevent or reduce the impact of identified GC risks
• Outline a schedule for periodically reviewing the GC risk register and make adjustments as required. Track the progress of outstanding mitigation actions and provide updates to leadership
• Provide support to any risk mitigation strategies for Machine Learning (ML) ramp. This includes coordinating operational tasks and execution of risk-related activities associated with ML builds

Requirements:

• Owner Furnished Equipment (OFE) Supply Chain Risk Program Establishment
• Based on feedback collected from stakeholders, refine the existing OFE risk taxonomy and risk framework to categorize risks
• Conduct risk identification workshops and calibrate risks to finalize potential risks associated with OFE and document the identified cost and schedules risks into an OFE risk register in e-Builder
• Design / recommend specific controls to prevent or reduce the impact of identified OFE risks
• Outline a schedule for periodically reviewing the OFE risk register and make adjustments as required. Track the progress of outstanding mitigation actions and provide updates to leadership
• General Contractor (GC) Risk Program Establishment
• Identify and compile a comprehensive inventory of all GCs utilized in data center construction projects by conducting a thorough review of contracts, bid documents, project plans and interviews with project stakeholders, assess their criticality based on their impact on the overall functionality and performance of the data center
• Based on feedback collected from stakeholders, refine the existing GC risk taxonomy to categorize risks
• Conduct risk identification workshops and calibrate risks to finalize top GC risks for O&M and Construction projects into a GC risk register in e-Builder
• Design / recommend specific controls to prevent or reduce the impact of identified GC risks
• Outline a schedule for periodically reviewing the GC risk register and make adjustments as required. Track the progress of outstanding mitigation actions and provide updates to leadership
• Equipment Capacity Schedule Risk Support
• Provide support to any risk mitigation strategies for Machine Learning (ML) ramp. This includes coordinating operational tasks and execution of risk-related activities associated with ML builds
• Membership with a relevant risk domain area association including: Project Management Institute (PMP, RMP); American Association Cost Engineers (PRMP, DRMP), RICS full membership (MRICS or FRICS) or equivalent
• Safran, @risk, PRA, Deltek, Omega application knowledge