Cloud Security Strategy Lead

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 784,000 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. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

Accenture Security

Join Accenture Security to pioneer security solutions that blend risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security and managed services. Using the coolest next-gen tech, you’ll have every chance to stay one step ahead of cybercrime and out-hack the hackers.

Accenture Security provides comprehensive security services – from security strategy development to business transformation, to managed security services – on demand and at a global scale to help mitigate risks and take full advantage of advanced technologies and proven risk management models. Our experienced team of global security professionals helps businesses understand their risks and build resilience from the inside out, giving them the confidence to focus on what matters most: innovation and business growth.

Responsibilities:

• Define and maintain the organization’s cloud security strategy, roadmap, and target state architecture

• Design security reference architectures for AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid environments

• Establish cloud security standards, policies, and guardrails aligned with business risk appetite

• Lead threat modeling, risk assessments, and security design reviews for cloud initiatives

• Translate regulatory and compliance requirements (ISO 27001, NIST, SOC 2, PCI, etc.) into practical cloud controls

• Partner with cloud engineering, DevOps, and platform teams to embed security into CI/CD pipelines

• Drive Zero Trust, identity-first security, and least-privilege access models in the cloud

• Define security requirements for cloud-native services, containers, Kubernetes, and serverless

• Evaluate and select cloud security tools (CSPM, CNAPP, CIEM, CWPP, SIEM integrations)

• Provide executive-level guidance on cloud risk, security posture, and investment priorities

• Act as the escalation point for complex cloud security design and risk decisions