Security Compliance, Audit & Technical Architecture Manager

Accenture; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 87,000 - 294,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Bonus opportunities

Job summary

Accenture Security is seeking seasoned professionals to lead controls testing and audit readiness initiatives for clients across multiple industries. The role focuses on ITGCs, application controls, and regulatory controls within frameworks such as SOX, SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, GDPR, HIPAA, and more.

You will own IAM compliance and contribute to risk-based GRC programs. Travel may be required based on client needs; a strong technical and communication skill set is essential to translate

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of total experience in cybersecurity, IT audit, compliance, or GRC consulting.
• Minimum 5 years focused on controls testing and audit readiness.
• Minimum 5 years of technical architecture experience across multiple platforms.
• Minimum 5 years of experience with evidence management and audit artifacts.

Responsibilities

• Lead and execute control testing cycles (design and operating effectiveness) across ITGCs, application controls, and regulatory controls.
• Manage remediation roadmaps, build evidence libraries, and prepare clients for internal and external audits.
• Deliver security architecture assessments across cloud, enterprise apps, data platforms, and hybrid infrastructure.
• Own IAM compliance testing including RBAC, PAM, MFA, access certification, and joiner/mover/leaver processes.
• Support GRC program delivery including policy development, risk assessments, and third-party risk management.

Skills

Cybersecurity

IT audit

GRC consulting

Risk management

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

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.

The Work

Controls Testing & Audit Readiness

• Lead and execute
• Plan and execute control testing cycles (design effectiveness and operating effectiveness) across IT general controls (ITGCs), application controls, and regulatory controls for frameworks including SOX, SOC 1/2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, CMMC, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and others.

Audit Readiness Programs

Manage

• Assess control gaps, define remediation roadmaps, build evidence libraries, and prepare clients for internal and external audits — including Big 4 and regulatory examinations.

Technical Architecture Assessments

Deliver

• Evaluate and advise on the security and compliance posture of multi-platform architectures spanning cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), enterprise applications (SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow), data platforms, and hybrid infrastructure.

Identity & Access Management (IAM) Compliance

Own

• Review and test IAM controls including role-based access control (RBAC), privileged access management (PAM), MFA enforcement, access certification cycles, and joiner/mover/leaver processes against regulatory and audit requirements.

GRC Program Delivery

Support

• Contribute to integrated risk and compliance programs, including policy development, risk assessments, control mapping, and evidence collection. Support Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) assessments for Tier 1 vendors.
• Translate regulatory requirements into actionable technical controls and architecture recommendations for client engineering and security teams.
• Produce high-quality audit workpapers, findings reports, gap analyses, and management presentations.
• Mentor junior analysts and consultants; contribute to proposals, client relationships, and internal practice development.

Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

Here's What You Need

• Minimum of 8 years of total experience in cybersecurity, IT audit, compliance, or GRC consulting — with at least 5 years focused on controls testing and audit readiness.
• Minimum 5 of years of demonstrated hands‑on experience testing ITGCs, application controls, and regulatory controls across at least two major frameworks (SOX, SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, CMMC, HIPAA, GDPR, or similar).
• Minimum 5 of years of technical architecture experience across multiple platforms — cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP), enterprise applications, data governance platforms, and identity/access management systems.
• Minimum 5 of years of experience with evidence management, audit artifact preparation, and facilitating walkthroughs with internal and external auditors.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate's Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)

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We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 08/08/2026.

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Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here: U.S. Employee Benefits | Accenture

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