Security Senior Manager

Accenture•Seattle, WA

17h•Hybrid

About The Position

We Are Accenture Security helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond to, and recover across the cybersecurity lifecycle. We work with leading technology companies to accelerate security innovation, strengthen product capabilities, and deliver AI-enabled cybersecurity solutions at scale. Our Microsoft Security portfolio brings together deep cybersecurity expertise, engineering capabilities, industry experience, and strategic partnerships to help Microsoft advance its security products, platforms, and services. You Are 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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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