Trustworthy/Ethical AI Senior Consultant

AI & Analytics | Regulatory & Legal Support
Same job available in 12 locations

Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Arlington, Virginia, United States

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Falls Church, Virginia, United States

Lexington Park, Maryland, United States

McLean, Virginia, United States

Rockville, Maryland, United States

Rosslyn, Virginia, United States

Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Suitland, Maryland, United States

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Position Summary

Are you looking to make an impact by helping agencies meet their mission goals through successful implementation and operation of their regulatory, mission or compliance programs? Are you ready to help our clients mitigate risks that arise from transformational core business operational change or ongoing operations? Are you interested in helping clients transform how they operate their business to be more effective? If so, Deloitte’s Regulatory Compliance team could be the place for you! Our team brings professionals with diverse skillsets including deep experience in industry, AI-enabled data analytics, statistical modeling, and cloud technologies to help our clients preserve their reputation and public trust of their agencies while managing regulatory demands.

Work you’ll do 

  • From a technical perspective this is a cross-functional role where you will collaborate with platform engineers, data engineers, system designers, architects, database administrators, and cyber security risk professionals to assist in the overall design of production modeling systems
  • Develop, deploy, and manage AI technologies in a manner that complies with regulatory and ethical principles. This involves considering the potential consequences of AI systems and ensuring that they are designed and used in ways that minimize harm while maximizing the value of providing modeling insights delivered to our clients
  • Drive the development, ongoing maintenance, and governance of advanced machine learning models and AI pipelines in a growing AI environment
  • You will be working with a team of data scientists, engineers, and model validation professionals in designing and releasing new capabilities to advance data science techniques and improve the trust and transparency in the AI modeling lifecycleinterpret and translate model results, metadata, trends, and takeaways to team members, clients, and executive leadership with varying levels of subject matter knowledge.
  • You will be supporting thought leadership on the evolving agenda of AI model governance of overseeing the execution and effectiveness of key modeling governance activities around performance monitoring, testing, and change management in alignment with industry best practices.

The team 

Deloitte’s Government and Public Services (GPS) practice – our people, ideas, technology and outcomes—is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of over 15,000+ professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

We bring a diverse set of forward thinking capabilities to help agencies proactively manage risks they face in their dynamically changing environments. Our team assesses and transforms the process, controls, and/or infrastructure needed to help our clients address a wide variety of regulatory and compliance risks. We leverage solutions that align to the end-to-end regulatory lifecycle through leveraging AI technology and innovative solutions that incorporate industry as well as domain knowledge.

Qualifications 

Required:

  • Bachelor’s degree required 
  • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain the required clearance for this role
  • 4+ years of experience managing and analyzing big data
  • Hands-on development experience of AI/ML models, open-source software packages, or cloud AI software
  • Experience across the entire model development lifecycle, including interacting with model risk management teams and executing model governance best practices to support trust in AI
  • Deep technical understanding, including proficiency in an analytical programming language, such as SAS, Python, or R
  • Genuine passion for AI and interest in using machine learning techniques to solve practical business problems and ethical concerns
  • A driven self-starter and leader with strong project management skills and proven instances of successfully delivering AI projects and systems
  • A team player who can mentor and grow the team around you
  • Attentive to detail and quick to adapt to new challenges
  • Strong executive presentation skills to effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders across business units, technology, and policy teams

Preferred:

  • Master’s degree or Ph.D. in a quantitative field, such as computer science, mathematics, statistics, economics, or physics
  • Experience with advanced machine learning techniques and packages (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, Scikit-Learn, Pandas, NumPy, Seaborn, Orange3, SciPy, Matplotlib, Theano)
  • Development experience of explainable AI algorithms and frameworks (LIME, SHAP)
  • Project Management certification (PMP, PRINCE) and/or Agile (e.g., APM, CSM, PMI-ACP, SAFe SM, CSPO)
  • Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
  • Experience orchestrating MLOps pipelines (MLflow, Kubeflow)
  • Experience with designing controls for adversarial machine learning threats
  • Published research in the field of AI ethics or AI trust
  • Development of AI audit or governance frameworks

Our people and culture

Our diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture empowers our people to be who they are, contribute their unique perspectives, and make a difference individually and collectively. It enables us to leverage different ideas and perspectives, and bring more creativity and innovation to help solve our clients' most complex challenges. This makes Deloitte one of the most rewarding places to work. Learn more about our inclusive culture.

Our purpose

Deloitte’s purpose is to make an impact that matters for our clients, our people, and in our communities. We are creating trust and confidence in a more equitable society. At Deloitte, purpose is synonymous with how we work every day. It defines who we are. We are focusing our collective efforts to advance sustainability, equity, and trust that come to life through our core commitments. Learn more about Deloitte's purpose, commitments, and impact.

Professional development

From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there’s always room to learn. We offer opportunities to build new skills, take on leadership opportunities and connect and grow through mentorship. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their career.


As used in this posting, "Deloitte Advisory" means Deloitte & Touche LLP, which provides audit and enterprise risk services; Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP, which provides forensic, dispute, and other consulting services; and its affiliate, Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP, which provides a wide range of advisory and analytics services. Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP is not a certified public accounting firm. Please see www.deloitte.com/us/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries. These entities are separate subsidiaries of Deloitte LLP.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.

Requisition code: 139544

SCAM ALERT

Caution against fraudulent job offers!

We have been informed of instances where jobseekers are led to believe of fictitious job opportunities with Deloitte US (“Deloitte”). In one or more such cases, false promises of actual or potential selection, or initiation or completion of the recruitment formalities appear to have been or are being made. Some jobseekers appear to have been asked to pay money to specified bank accounts of individuals or entities as a condition of their selection for a ‘job’ with Deloitte. These individuals or entities are in no way connected with Deloitte and do not represent or otherwise act on behalf of Deloitte.

We would like to clarify that:

  • At Deloitte, ethics and integrity are fundamental and not negotiable.
  • We are against corruption and neither offer bribes nor accept them, nor induce or permit any other party to make or receive bribes on our behalf.
  • We have not authorized any party or person to collect any money from jobseekers in any form whatsoever for promises of getting jobs in Deloitte.
  • We consider candidates on merit and that we provide an equal opportunity to eligible applicants.
  • No one other than designated Deloitte personnel (e.g., a Deloitte recruiter or Deloitte hiring partner) is permitted to extend any job offer from Deloitte.

Anyone who at any time has made or makes any payment to any party in exchange for promises of job or selection for a job with Deloitte or any matter related to this (including those for ‘registration’, ‘verification’ or ‘security deposit’) or otherwise engages with any such person who has made or makes fraudulent promises or offers, does so (or has done so) entirely at their own risk. Deloitte takes no responsibility or liability for any such unauthorized or fraudulent actions or engagements. We encourage jobseekers to exercise caution.