Security Consultant – Architect – Financial Services

Overview

As a Financial Services Cybersecurity Architect at Accenture, you will shape secure technology solutions for banks, payments, capital markets, and insurance clients. You’ll work across strategy to implementation, embedding security-by-design and enabling risk-reduced delivery. You’ll engage with cross-functional teams to translate regulations and business needs into practical security controls. This role offers exposure to cutting-edge technology and a global network, with opportunities to grow in a dynamic, inclusive environment.

Pay / Benefits

• 25 days annual leave
• Private medical insurance
• Volunteer leave
• Learning and certifications programmes
• Work with leading financial institutions and global organisations
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements

Responsibilities

• Help reduce cyber risk across technology programmes by defining and assuring security requirements, controls, and risk treatments throughout the project lifecycle
• Conduct threat modelling using MITRE ATT&CK to identify threats and recommend controls
• Design and advise on functional and technical security requirements aligning with business objectives and regulatory obligations
• Support solution design, development, and deployment to implement security requirements effectively
• Define monitoring, logging, and security assurance requirements to detect control failures and incidents
• Support procurement and third-party risk by detailing security requirements and reviewing supplier security controls
• Maintain traceability between threats, risks, requirements, controls, testing outcomes, and risk decisions
• Produce security assurance evidence for risk acceptance, go-live, and operational readiness reviews
• Interpret laws, regulations, standards, and policies to produce practical delivery requirements
• Partner with architects, engineers, and stakeholders to embed security-by-design across solutions
• Contribute to governance, risk management, and compliance across client engagements

Key requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Cyber Security, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline
• Experience in cyber security, security architecture, or technology risk
• Experience delivering security requirements and controls in transformation or delivery programmes
• Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries
• Understanding of core security principles: Zero Trust, defence-in-depth, least privilege, secure-by-design, resilience-by-design
• Familiarity with Cloud security (Azure, AWS, GCP), IAM, Application security/DevSecOps, and related domains
• Ability to analyze technical risks and communicate to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to use AI-enabled tools to improve productivity, delivery quality, or security outcomes

• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills
• Clear communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Collaborative and client-facing mindset
• Cloud security (Azure, AWS, GCP)
• Network security
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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