Senior Security Strategist & Risk Advisor

Arctiq; Brentwood (TN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Arctiq is seeking a seasoned Senior Security Advisor to join the Security Advisory Services team. This role leads complex advisory engagements, builds trusted client relationships, and connects technical security considerations to business risk and priorities.

You will work with executives, technology teams, security practitioners, and business stakeholders to assess capabilities, define pragmatic improvement plans, and guide clients through security program decisions.

Qualifications

• Progressive experience in cybersecurity or information security, risk management, or related consulting.
• Ability to lead security assessments and develop strategic, risk-based recommendations for varied client environments.
• Broad knowledge of governance, risk management, security operations, incident response, identity and access management, cloud security, data protection, vulnerability management, and security architecture.
• Experience facilitating workshops and communicating with both executives and technical practitioners.
• Excellent business writing skills with ability to create clear executive summaries, findings, and roadmaps.
• Strong engagement-management skills with the ability to manage scope, priorities, stakeholders, dependencies, and multiple commitments.

Responsibilities

• Serve as trusted advisor to executive and technical stakeholders on cybersecurity strategy, governance, risk, resilience, and investment priorities.
• Lead discovery sessions, stakeholder interviews, executive workshops, and working sessions to clarify business context and desired outcomes.
• Translate complex security concerns into concise business-risk narratives, prioritized decisions, and practical improvement roadmaps.
• Present findings and recommendations to senior leaders, steering committees, and technical teams.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of advanced cyber attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures and tools used.
• Lead multi-competency cybersecurity maturity assessments, gap assessments, risk assessments, and control-effectiveness evaluations.
• Assess capabilities across governance, identity, cloud, security operations, vulnerability management, incident response, data protection, third-party risk, and cyber resilience.
• Develop risk-based remediation plans balancing threat exposure, regulatory expectations, operational constraints, cost, and readiness.
• Produce polished executive reports, technical observations, roadmaps, scorecards, and presentation materials.
• Advise clients on governance, policies, standards, roles, metrics, and oversight processes.
• Apply frameworks such as NIST CSF, CIS Controls, ISO 27001, SOC 2, CMMC, and PCI DSS where relevant.
• Mentor consultants, review deliverables, and promote high-quality client experiences.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Security advisory

Risk-based recommendations

Executive communication

Workshop facilitation

Client-facing

Business writing

Engagement management

Education

CISSP / CISM / CRISC / CCSP certification

ISO 27001 Lead Implementer or Lead Auditor

Tools

Azure

Microsoft 365

Entra ID

Defender

Sentinel

Purview

Intune

Job description

Arctiq is seeking a seasoned Senior Security Advisor to join the Security Advisory Services team. This role leads complex advisory engagements, builds trusted client relationships, and connects technical security considerations to business risk and priorities.

You will work with executives, technology teams, security practitioners, and business stakeholders to assess capabilities, define pragmatic improvement plans, and guide clients through security program decisions.