Associate Director Identity Security

Accenture PLC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 132,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Canada Identity and Trust practice seeks an executive leader to own revenue across identity pillars and oversee large, complex delivery. Reporting to the Canada Identity and Trust Leader, this role drives growth and client impact across industries.

You will lead business development, maintain relationships with VP and C-suite stakeholders, and guide multi-discipline teams across regions to deliver secure, integrated identity solutions.

Qualifications

• Design and deliver large, complex security services focusing on Identity: PAM, IGA, CIAM, AI.
• Experience leading business development and sales capture efforts.
• Extensive leadership relationships with senior executives including C-suite.
• Experience leading and growing a security or Identity practice.

Responsibilities

• Drive business development activities including origination, qualification, capture and relationship development.
• Maintain relationships with VP and C-suite-level stakeholders.
• Lead development of written and oral client proposals.
• Develop, plan and lead large-scale Identity delivery across industries.
• Assist in driving overall Security practice growth.
• Lead, attract and retain multi-discipline, multi-region teams.

Skills

Business development

C-suite relationships

Leadership

Practice growth

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field

Job description

We Are

Accenture Security helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond, and recover along all points of the security lifecycle. Cybersecurity challenges are different for every business in every industry. Leveraging our global resources and advanced technologies, we create integrated, turnkey solutions tailored to our clients’ needs across their entire value chain. Whether we’re defending against known cyberattacks, detecting and responding to the unknown, or running an entire security operations center, we will help companies build cyber resilience to grow with confidence. Our team of the security sector’s brightest people use the coolest tech to out-hack the hackers and help clients build resilience from within. We blend risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security and managed service solutions to rethink the entire security lifecycle.

You Are

Passionate about security, love what you do and have a genuine desire to outsmart the bad guys. You have the experience to analyze a clients’ security posture, anticipate security requirements and help find right-sized solutions based on industry leading practices. You have a proven track record working successfully in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment. You’re a creative, analytical problem solver with above average documentation skills who can speak to both technical and non-technical audiences. Can apply deep security skills to design, build and protect enterprise systems, applications, data, assets and people for Accenture and our clients. You are eager to put your skills to use by helping us help our clients inject security at every level of their organization.

Job Description

Reporting to the Canada Identity and Trust Leader, this is a critical role within Accenture’s Identity and Trust consulting practice and will provide executive leadership, take ownership for revenue generation across identity pillars as well as oversee large, complex delivery.

This leader will:

• Drive business development activities including origination, qualification, capture and relationship development
• Maintain relationships with key client stakeholders at the VP and C-suite level
• Lead development of written and oral client proposals
• Develop, plan and lead large-scale solution delivery efforts for Identity across a broad range of industries
• Assist in driving overall Security practice growth
• Lead, attract and retain multi-discipline, and multi-region teams

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of 15 years of experience designing and delivering large, complex security services to clients with a heavy focus across Identity: PAM, IGA, CIAM, AI.
• Experience leading business development and sales capture efforts
• Deep network with extensive leadership relationships including at the C-suite level
• Experience leading and growing practice

Preferred Skills:

• Industry-adopted security certifications (e.g. CISSP)
• Bachelor or higher degree in a technical field (e.g. Computer Science, CIS, MIS, Engineering)

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, based on full-time

employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below.

The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a backfill position.

The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role.

It does not represent a maximum limit — in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.

Information on benefits is here.

Role Location Annual Salary Range

British Columbia/Ontario/New Brunswick $131,700 to $278,100