Senior Cybersecurity Architect — Federal AI & Cloud

Accenture Federal Services; Washington; On-site; USD 135,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services in the United States is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Architect to lead strategy, architecture, and modernization across a large federal enterprise. You will shape security direction while guiding Security Operations, Engineering, AppSec, and Vulnerability Management, balancing long‑term vision with hands‑on leadership.

You will build high‑performing teams, enable secure adoption of new technologies, and align with federal mandates, cloud and AI governance, and

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive cybersecurity experience with leadership across multiple domains.
• Deep expertise in SOC operations, incident response, detection, vulnerability management, engineering, and AppSec.
• Experience implementing enterprise‑scale security programs and platforms.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate executive priorities into action.
• Experience working in federal or regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Cybersecurity Strategy & Architecture: Define and mature enterprise security architecture aligned with federal mandates, mission needs, and modernization priorities.
• Advise executives on threats, investments, cloud and hybrid security, AI governance, and technical standards.
• Security Operations Leadership: Improve SOC functions including detection engineering, incident response, threat hunting, and cyber intelligence.
• Strengthen visibility, detection, response workflows, and automation.
• Security Engineering & Modernization: Lead the adoption and optimization of security platforms across identity, endpoint, network, cloud, and data.
• Champion Zero Trust and automation.
• Application Security & SDLC: Build secure‑by‑design practices, integrate security into modern development pipelines, strengthen supply chain security, and drive scalable AppSec automation.
• Vulnerability Management: Oversee enterprise vulnerability strategy, integrating threat intelligence and business context for risk‑based prioritization.
• Advance automation and AI‑driven discovery, analysis, and remediation.
• AI Innovation & Cyber Transformation: Assess and guide responsible use of AI, ML, and agentic technologies to advance cyber defense, engineering productivity, and automation.
• Leadership & Workforce Development: Mentor cyber talent, build adaptable high‑performing teams, and foster collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Skills

SOC operations

Incident response

Detection

Vulnerability management

Engineering

AppSec

Executive communication

Federal environments

Job description

Accenture Federal Services in the United States is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Architect to lead strategy, architecture, and modernization across a large federal enterprise. You will shape security direction while guiding Security Operations, Engineering, AppSec, and Vulnerability Management, balancing long‑term vision with hands‑on leadership.

You will build high‑performing teams, enable secure adoption of new technologies, and align with federal mandates, cloud and AI governance, and