GenAI Security Strategy Consultant

Accenture PLC; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave (18 weeks)

Career breaks

Career development

Global opportunities

Family Inclusive Workplace

Flexible work arrangements

Diversity & Inclusion

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Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Senior Consultant to deliver AI governance, risk and control design services to clients. You will translate complex GenAI/ML architectures into practical risk and control models and work with security, risk, engineering, and data teams to ensure end-to-end coverage.

Based in Sydney, you will lead projects, conduct AI and model risk assessments, map technical controls, and help clients operationalize governance across data, training, inference, and outputs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in technology risk, cyber security, or technical consulting delivering client-facing engagements.
• Strong understanding of AI/ML and Generative AI architectures.
• Experience mapping technical security controls, not just process controls.
• Ability to assess and clearly communicate complex risk across models, data, and infrastructure to customers.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including visualising consulting outputs in Visio, PowerPoint, Word.

Responsibilities

• Deliver Secure AI strategy and risk consulting projects
• Lead complex projects where scope may be unclear, educate clients on AI use cases and ensure well defined business case ROI is documented
• Conduct high level business analysis workshops and deep dives to identify security risks and concerns
• Conduct AI and model risk assessments across GenAI and ML workloads
• Map technical controls across AI models, platforms, and deployment pipelines
• Assess and define controls covering data ingestion, training, inference, and outputs
• Evaluate security and risk across AI infrastructure, MLOps, and GenAIOps pipelines
• Translate AI architectures into actionable risk, control, and assurance artefacts
• Align technical controls to security, risk, and regulatory frameworks
• Support clients in operationalising AI governance and control models
• Contribute to repeatable Secure AI risk frameworks, templates, and documentation
• Actively collaborate across CyberCX and continuously look for ways to add value.

Skills

Tech risk

Cyber security

AI/ML

GenAI architectures

Security controls mapping

Communication

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Senior Consultant to deliver AI governance, risk and control design services to clients. You will translate complex GenAI/ML architectures into practical risk and control models and work with security, risk, engineering, and data teams to ensure end-to-end coverage.

Based in Sydney, you will lead projects, conduct AI and model risk assessments, map technical controls, and help clients operationalize governance across data, training, inference, and outputs.