Strategic Threat-Informed Defense Leader

Accenture; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Threat Informed Defense Senior Manager to lead the core of a global cyber threat intelligence program for mission-critical environments. You will own the capability that turns intelligence into defensive outcomes, structuring, normalizing, and operationalizing threat data to drive detection, hunting, and response across Accenture's security stacks and client environments.

Ideal candidates will have extensive experience guiding threat-informed defense programs, governance

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years across cyber threat intelligence, threat-informed defense, detection engineering, threat hunting, or security operations.
• Minimum of 5 years leading technical teams, including second-line leadership.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience with TIP, SIEM, SOAR, and EDR and how intelligence is operationalized across them.
• Minimum of 5 years with structured threat data and MITRE ATT&CK framework including modeling threat actors, campaigns, and malware.
• Minimum of 5 years defining data structures or normalization standards that span multiple tools or teams.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience (12 years) or 6 years with Associate's degree

Skills

Threat-informed defense

Leadership

Threat intelligence

MITRE ATT&CK

Detection engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Threat Informed Defense Senior Manager to lead the core of a global cyber threat intelligence program for mission-critical environments. You will own the capability that turns intelligence into defensive outcomes, structuring, normalizing, and operationalizing threat data to drive detection, hunting, and response across Accenture's security stacks and client environments.

Ideal candidates will have extensive experience guiding threat-informed defense programs, governance