Senior Enterprise Cyber Recovery Architect

Accenture; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel opportunities

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Accenture’s CIFR Cyber Recovery practice seeks an enterprise architecture leader to direct recovery after major cyber incidents. You will map complex environments, design recovery sequences, and guide executive stakeholders through high-stakes decisions.

You will own playbooks, automation, and tools to ensure rapid, secure restoration. The role requires deep experience across servers, storage, networking, and cloud, with travel 25%–75%.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of experience in enterprise architecture, infrastructure design, or a closely related discipline spanning servers, storage, networking, and cloud environments
• Minimum 1 year of demonstrated experience mapping application dependencies and infrastructure relationships across large, complex enterprise environments
• Minimum 1 year demonstrated experience with enterprise backup and restoration tools in large-scale environments
• Minimum 3 years of experience engaging directly with senior or executive stakeholders, communicating complex technical concepts with clarity and confidence in high-stakes situations
• Minimum 4 years of client-facing consulting experience in infrastructure, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, or a closely related discipline
• Minimum 2 years of experience leading teams or workstreams in a consulting or advisory environment
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise recovery engagements during active cyber incidents, directing recovery sequencing and strategy across complex, multi-tier environments from initial triage through full restoration
• Map client environment architecture, application dependencies, and infrastructure relationships to develop and execute a structured recovery plan that brings the right systems back in the right order
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to senior client stakeholders throughout the recovery lifecycle, communicating complex infrastructure and recovery decisions with clarity and composure under pressure
• Develop, refine, and maintain technical recovery playbooks, workflows, and runbooks tailored to enterprise environments that enable consistent and secure restoration
• Own the deployment, configuration, and ongoing validation of recovery tools and technologies so they are optimized and ready when needed
• Translate lessons learned from recovery engagements into strategic and tactical transformation roadmaps that enable organizations to build a more secure and resilient enterprise environment post-incident
• Assess team technical capabilities, identify gaps, and design and deliver training programs that elevate recovery expertise across the practice
• Represent the practice with professionalism and adaptability in high-stakes, client-facing situations
• Drive capability development within the recovery practice by building and maturing the tools, methodologies, and frameworks that define how the team delivers at scale — serving as a technical leader and subject matter expert within the practice, not just on engagements

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Infrastructure design

Cloud environments

Executive stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

SAN

NAS

AWS

Azure

GCP

Hypervisor

Container platforms

Job description

Accenture’s CIFR Cyber Recovery practice seeks an enterprise architecture leader to direct recovery after major cyber incidents. You will map complex environments, design recovery sequences, and guide executive stakeholders through high-stakes decisions.

You will own playbooks, automation, and tools to ensure rapid, secure restoration. The role requires deep experience across servers, storage, networking, and cloud, with travel 25%–75%.