Practice Lead - Operational Technology Security

Accenture; Calgary; On-site; CAD 161,000 - 319,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a senior leader to define, grow, and lead the OT Security Consulting business in Canada. The role will own market development, strategic client relationships, large-scale delivery, talent growth, and evolving OT cybersecurity offerings.

This executive will drive business development, maintain VP/C-suite relationships, and lead multi‑region delivery teams to deliver secure OT solutions for clients across industries.

Qualifications

• Senior leadership role focusing on OT security consulting across Canada.
• Responsible for market development and large-scale delivery.
• Leads talent growth and evolves OT cybersecurity offerings.

Responsibilities

• Drive business development including origination and client relationships.
• Maintain relationships with senior client stakeholders (VP/C-suite).
• Lead development of written and oral client proposals.
• Drive security practice growth and OT delivery programs.
• Lead multi-discipline, multi-region teams on projects.

Skills

OT security

Business development

Executive leadership

Strategic relations

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.

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

This senior leadership role will be responsible for defining, growing, and leading Accenture's Operational Technology (OT) Security Consulting business in Canada. The successful candidate will own market development, strategic client relationships, large‑scale delivery execution, talent growth, and the evolution of Accenture's OT cybersecurity offerings. As a recognized industry leader, they will help clients secure critical infrastructure environments while driving profitable growth and differentiation for Accenture.

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
• Assist in driving overall security practice growth
• Develop, plan and lead large‑scale solution delivery efforts for OT across a broad range of industries
• Lead, attract and retain multi‑discipline, and multi‑region teams

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.

Information on benefits is here.

Role Location Annual Salary Range

British Columbia/Ontario/New Brunswick $161,050 to $319,300