Security Senior Manager

As a Security Senior Manager, you will play a key leadership role in growing and delivering Accenture's security business with Microsoft.

You will work closely with Accenture leadership and Microsoft Security product and engineering teams to identify opportunities, shape innovative solutions, and lead complex security engagements.

The Work

This role requires a combination of cybersecurity expertise, strong consulting and delivery leadership, business development capabilities, and an understanding of emerging AI-driven security technologies.

The ideal candidate is comfortable engaging senior Microsoft stakeholders, translating product priorities into actionable consulting and engineering opportunities, and leading globally distributed teams to deliver measurable outcomes.

What You'll Do

• Microsoft Security Portfolio Leadership: Support the growth and execution of Accenture's Microsoft Security portfolio, working across multiple security product groups, engineering organizations, and business stakeholders.
• Strategic Client Relationships: Build trusted relationships with Microsoft Directors, General Managers, Partner-level leaders, and senior engineering and product executives. Understand their priorities, challenges, and product roadmaps.
• Business Development: Identify, qualify, shape, and pursue new opportunities across Microsoft's security organization, including product engineering support, security research, testing, operations, and transformation initiatives.
• AI and Agentic Security: Drive opportunities involving agentic SOC, AI security, agent governance, securing agentic software development, and AI-enabled security operations.
• Security Product Engineering and Assurance: Support Microsoft product teams with security validation, adversarial testing, red teaming, product assurance, engineering process improvements, and accelerated product delivery.
• Exposure Management and Security Operations: Shape engagements involving vulnerability management, exposure management, threat detection, incident response, XDR, SIEM, and automated remediation.
• Microsoft Security Ecosystem: Develop a working understanding of Microsoft's security portfolio, including Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, Entra, Purview, Security Copilot, and emerging security platforms.
• Program and Delivery Leadership: Lead complex, multi-workstream engagements, ensuring delivery excellence, stakeholder satisfaction, financial performance, and effective risk management.
• Global Team Leadership: Manage and mentor geographically distributed consulting, engineering, and cybersecurity teams, fostering accountability, technical excellence, and professional development.
• Innovation and Thought Leadership: Collaborate with Accenture's security practices, AI teams, research organizations, and technology partners to bring innovative solutions and reusable accelerators to Microsoft.
• Commercial Management: Own engagement economics, staffing plans, forecasting, profitability, and account-level operational performance.
• Executive Communications: Develop compelling proposals, executive presentations, business cases, and strategic recommendations for Microsoft and Accenture leadership.

Travel may be required for this role.  The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

Here's What You Need

• Minimum 10 years of experience in cybersecurity, technology consulting, security engineering, or related fields.
• Minimum 7 years of consulting or technology services experience, preferably supporting large enterprise technology clients.
• Minimum 5 years of experience leading complex cybersecurity or technology programs involving multiple workstreams and geographically distributed teams.
• Minimum 5 years of experience managing client relationships and engaging senior technology, engineering, or security stakeholders.
• Minimum 8 years of demonstrated experience in one or more cybersecurity domains, including security operations, threat detection, vulnerability management, identity security, data protection, cloud security, application security, or AI security.
• Minimum 8 years of experience managing project financials, staffing, delivery quality, and client satisfaction.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)

Professional Skills Requirement

• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills.

Bonus Points if You Have

• Microsoft Ecosystem Experience: Experience working with Microsoft Security product groups or delivering services involving Defender, Sentinel, Entra, Purview, Security Copilot, or Azure security technologies.
• AI Security: Familiarity with generative AI, agentic AI, AI red teaming, agent security, LLM security, and emerging AI security frameworks.
• Business Development: Experience identifying opportunities, shaping solutions, developing proposals, and contributing to sales pursuits and account growth.
• Security Engineering: Experience supporting cybersecurity product engineering organizations, product validation, security testing, automation, or engineering transformation.
• Security Operations: Understanding of SOC modernization, XDR, SIEM, threat intelligence, incident response, and security automation.
• Exposure Management: Experience with vulnerability management, attack surface management, continuous threat exposure management, and risk-based remediation.
• Red Teaming and Security Assurance: Familiarity with adversarial testing, penetration testing, AI red teaming, and continuous security validation.
• Large-Scale Program Leadership: Experience managing $2M+ engagements and coordinating multiple concurrent delivery teams.
• Technology Industry Experience: Prior experience supporting major technology companies, hyperscalers, cloud providers, or cybersecurity product organizations.
• Certifications: CISSP, CISM, CISA, CCSP, Azure Security Engineer, or equivalent.
• Education: Master's degree in cybersecurity, computer science, engineering, business, or a related discipline.

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 11/30/2026.

Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here:

Role Location Annual Salary Range
California $132,500 to $338,300
Colorado $132,500 to $292,200
Connecticut $132,500 to $292,200
District of Columbia $141,100 to $311,200
Illinois $122,700 to $292,200
Maine $112,900 to $249,000
Maryland $132,500 to $292,200
Massachusetts $132,500 to $311,200
Minnesota $132,500 to $292,200
New York $122,700 to $338,300
New Jersey $141,100 to $338,300
Ohio $122,700 to $270,600
Virginia $122,700 to $311,200
Washington $141,100 to $311,200