Infrastructure & Capital Projects - Data Center Risk Manager, ANS

Accenture is a leading company in Infrastructure & Capital Projects, focused on transforming how capital projects are planned, managed, and executed. The Data Center Risk Manager will identify, capture, and maintain project risks while facilitating workshops and preparing risk reports to inform project controls and leadership reviews.

Responsibilities:

• Identifying, capturing, and maintaining project risks, issues, and opportunities in the risk register
• Facilitating risk workshops with project teams, contractors, and SMEs to gather inputs and validate assumptions
• Performing qualitative assessments and contributing data for quantitative cost/schedule risk analysis
• Tracking mitigation actions, owners, and due dates to ensure accountability and closure
• Preparing risk reports, dashboards, and executive summaries to inform project controls and leadership reviews
• Monitoring emerging risks, early warning indicators, and changes in project scope or conditions
• Supporting schedule risk reviews
• Coordinating with planning, cost, estimating, engineering, and construction delivery teams to embed risk into decision-making
• Escalating high-impact risks and recommending mitigation options for leadership approval
• Ensuring adherence to the enterprise risk framework, tools, and governance standards
• 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

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