Senior Cybersecurity Strategy & Risk Advisor

Arctiq: Intelligent Architecture; Brentwood (TN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Arctiq is seeking a seasoned Senior Security Advisor to join our Security Advisory Services team. You will lead advisory engagements, build trusted client relationships, and translate security considerations into business risk insights for executives.

You will work with leaders, technology teams, and stakeholders to assess current capabilities, define pragmatic improvement plans, and guide security program decisions across governance, cloud, and data protection domains.

Qualifications

• Progressive experience in cybersecurity, risk management, or related consulting fields.
• Lead security assessments and develop strategic, risk-based recommendations for varied client environments.
• Broad knowledge of governance, risk management, security operations, incident response, IAM, cloud security, data protection, vulnerability management, and security architecture.

Responsibilities

• Serve as trusted advisor to executives on cybersecurity strategy, governance, risk, resilience, and investment priorities.
• Lead discovery sessions, stakeholder interviews, and executive workshops to clarify business context and desired outcomes.
• Translate security concerns into concise business risk narratives, decisions, and roadmaps.
• Present findings and recommendations to senior leaders, steering committees, and technical teams.
• Maintain knowledge of advanced cyber attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures and the tools they use.
• Lead multi-competency cybersecurity maturity assessments, gap assessments, risk assessments, and control evaluations.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Client-facing

Executive communication

Workshop facilitation

Risk assessment

Security architecture

Cloud security

Azure

Defender

Tools

Azure

Microsoft 365

Entra ID

Defender

Sentinel

Purview

Intune

Job description

Arctiq is seeking a seasoned Senior Security Advisor to join our Security Advisory Services team. You will lead advisory engagements, build trusted client relationships, and translate security considerations into business risk insights for executives.

You will work with leaders, technology teams, and stakeholders to assess current capabilities, define pragmatic improvement plans, and guide security program decisions across governance, cloud, and data protection domains.