AI Security Architect

WeAreTechWomen; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an AI Security Architect to join its Secure AI practice in London or Manchester, with travel to client sites across the UK. You will design security architectures for AI systems, embed security by design, and advise on IAM within AI environments.

The role blends cyber security with AI, and involves shaping opportunities, proposals, and governance frameworks. Ideal candidates have deep security architecture experience, IAM expertise, and familiarity with SIEM/SOAR platforms.

Qualifications

• Deep security architecture experience across cyber defence and AI/cloud platforms.
• Knowledge of AI/ML security, AI pipelines, data security, and model governance.
• Experience with IAM and identity governance including PAM, IGA, ITDR.

Responsibilities

• Engage with clients to identify and shape AI-driven security opportunities.
• Architect AI-powered security solutions across threat detection and response.
• Define security architectures for AI pipelines and inference environments.
• Advise on applying AI to IAM and governance of identities within AI systems.
• Support bids, proposals, and thought leadership in AI security.

Skills

Security architecture

IAM

SIEM

SOAR

AI security

Threat detection

Governance frameworks

Education

CISSP

SABSA

TOGAF

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Splunk

SOAR tooling

Job description

Job Description

Job Title: AI Security Architect

Salary: Competitive salary and package (Depending on level of experience)

Locations: London/ Manchester (must be willing to travel to client sites throughout the UK on an ad hoc basis)

Please Note: Any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance which requires 5 years continuous UK address history (typically including no periods of 30 consecutive days or more spent outside of the UK) at the point of application.

We are looking for a AI Security Architect to join Accenture's Secure AI practice, working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and cyber security. In this role, you will help clients both harness AI to transform their security operations and ensure that the AI systems they build and deploy are themselves secure, trustworthy, and resilient by design.

You will work directly with clients to shape opportunities, architect solutions, and bring Accenture's market-leading capabilities to bear on their most complex challenges - whether that means deploying AI to strengthen cyber defence, or embedding security into AI pipelines, infrastructure, and governance frameworks from the ground up.

A key dimension of this role is Identity and Access Management. You will advise clients on applying AI to modernise IAM - including intelligent access governance, anomalous behaviour detection, AI-driven privileged access controls, and identity threat detection and response (ITDR) - and on securing the identities within AI systems themselves, including machine identities, non-human principals, and access to models, training data, and inference endpoints.

You will combine deep security architecture expertise with a strong commercial mindset, contributing to pursuits, bids, and thought leadership that differentiate Accenture in the market.

As a team:

• Work within Accenture's Secure AI practice at the cutting edge of AI and cyber security, shaping how clients defend with AI and secure their AI investments
• Collaborate with cyber strategy, AI engineering, data science, and delivery teams to win and deliver security transformation programmes
• Contribute to Accenture's Secure AI propositions, go-to-market strategy, and thought leadership across both AI for Security and Security for AI

Qualification

As an AI Security Architect you will:

• Engage directly with clients to identify, shape, and qualify opportunities across AI-driven security and the security of AI systems
• Architect AI-powered security solutions spanning threat detection, SIEM/SOAR modernisation, anomaly detection, automated incident response, and predictive risk modelling
• Define security architectures for AI pipelines, data platforms, model registries, and inference environments, embedding security from design through to deployment
• Advise clients on applying AI to Identity and Access Management - including intelligent access governance, AI-driven PAM, anomalous behaviour detection, and ITDR - and on governing identities within AI systems including machine and non-human identities
• Assess and help mitigate AI-specific risks including adversarial attacks, data poisoning, model theft, and supply chain vulnerabilities
• Support clients in navigating the evolving AI regulatory landscape - including the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and ISO/IEC 42001 - and maturing their AI governance and control frameworks
• Develop compelling proposals, architectures, and business cases that articulate the value of Accenture's capabilities
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and act as a credible advisor across both security and AI domains
• Contribute to bids, pursuits, and practice-building activities including thought leadership and go-to-market initiatives

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

• Deep security architecture experience, ideally spanning security operations, cyber defence, and AI or cloud platform environments
• Understanding of AI/ML applications in security - threat detection, behavioural analytics, anomaly detection, and predictive risk modelling
• Knowledge of securing AI systems - including AI pipelines, MLOps practices, data platform security, model registries, and inference endpoints
• Experience with AI-specific threats and controls: adversarial robustness, data integrity, model theft, and supply chain security
• Solid grounding in Identity and Access Management, including PAM, IGA, ITDR, and machine/non-human identity governance
• Familiarity with SIEM platforms (e.g. Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk) and SOAR tooling
• Awareness of AI governance frameworks and standards (NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, EU AI Act)
• Strong commercial acumen with experience supporting bids, proposals, or client-facing opportunity development
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with confidence engaging senior technical and business stakeholders
• Relevant certifications (e.g. CISSP, SABSA, TOGAF, cloud security, or AI/ML security) are advantageous

Key focus: Positioning Accenture as the partner of choice for clients looking to harness AI for security and build trustworthy, secure AI at scale - with identity as a critical control plane across both.

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Locations

• London
• Manchester

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