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Key Responsibilities

Are you ready to design and implement cutting-edge security solutions for complex systems and networks? As an Enterprise Security Architect at Accenture, you’ll play a pivotal role in safeguarding businesses while addressing regulatory compliance and industry best practices.

The Enterprise Security Architect is responsible for designing, developing, and governing end‑to‑end security architecture across the enterprise. This includes defining security standards, reference architectures, and ensuring that security requirements are embedded into technology, cloud, data, and business solutions. The architect acts as a strategic advisor across IT and business teams, ensuring the organization maintains a strong and adaptive security posture aligned with business goals.

Architecture & Design

• Design, develop, review, and implement enterprise security architectures for new or existing systems, applications, cloud environments, and platforms.
• Define and maintain security policies, standards, security patterns, and reference architectures across IT & OT environments.
• Conduct security architectural assessments, identify gaps, and propose solutions that align with enterprise governance and strategy.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards and manage architectural exceptions as part of change governance.

Security Governance & Integration

• Collaborate with engineering, cloud, data, and application teams to ensure secure design and configuration across solutions.
• Integrate security architecture into initiative planning, innovation programs, and emerging technologies oversight.
• Lead or participate in Architecture Review Boards, ensuring compliance with security design guidelines.

Risk Management & Assurance

• Perform security reviews, risk assessments, and vulnerability impact analyses across systems and solutions.
• Establish and track security architecture metrics, ensuring continuous improvement and maturity.
• Define target-state security architectures and roadmap security capabilities across domains.

Cloud & Emerging Tech

• Create and maintain cloud security architecture, including responsibilities mapping across IaaS/PaaS/SaaS.
• Analyses and guide integration of emerging tech (AI, IoT, quantum) while managing associated risks.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Act as a strategic advisor and security thought leader to business, engineering, and executive stakeholders.
• Build strong partnerships with cross‑functional teams and serve as the primary liaison between enterprise and solution architecture teams.
• Contribute to capability building, mentoring, and internal community development.

Qualifications & Skills

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, IT, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in information security, including at least 5 years as a Security Architect.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders and guide secure design decisions across complex environments.
• Familiarity with industry standards/frameworks (e.g., ISO 27001, NIST 800-53 or CSF, CIS Controls, GDPR).
• Security qualifications including at least one of the following: CISSP, CISM, GIAC, CCSK
• Security architecture qualifications preferrable: SABSA or TOGAF
• Strong knowledge of:

Security Architecture & Design:

• Cloud security (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Identity & Access Management, Network Security, Application Security
• SIEM/SOAR, endpoint security, and secure SDLC

Soft Skills

• Executive communication, stakeholder engagement, and leadership.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, colour, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as applicable by law.

Please advise if you have any particular requirements, so we can look into arranging reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process. You can contact us at accessIErecruitment@accenture.com.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
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