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About the Role

As a Financial Service Cybersecurity Architect, you will be a pivotal member of a high-performing team working on complex security challenges in the financial sector. You will collaborate on innovative projects, utilize the latest technologies, and drive security from strategy through implementation.

Responsibilities

• Design secure technology solutions, reduce cyber risk, and embed security throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Identify, define, and assure appropriate security requirements, controls, and risk treatments throughout the project lifecycle.
• Conduct threat modeling exercises using industry frameworks to identify credible threats and recommend proportionate security controls.
• Design and advise on functional and technical security requirements that support business objectives and regulatory obligations.
• Support solution design, development, and deployment activities to ensure security requirements are implemented effectively.
• Define monitoring, logging, and security assurance requirements to identify control failures, security incidents, and potential compromises.
• Support procurement and third-party risk activities by developing security requirements and reviewing supplier security controls.
• Maintain clear traceability between threats, risks, requirements, controls, testing outcomes, and risk decisions.
• Produce security assurance evidence to support risk acceptance, go-live approvals, and operational readiness reviews.
• Interpret relevant laws, regulations, standards, and internal policies and translate them into practical requirements for delivery teams.
• Partner with architects, engineers, and business stakeholders to embed security-by-design principles into technology solutions.
• Contribute to security governance, risk management, and compliance activities across client engagements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Cyber Security, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience in cyber security, security architecture, solution architecture, technology risk, or a related field.
• Experience delivering security requirements and controls within technology transformation or application delivery programmes.
• Experience within financial services or other highly regulated industries.
• Understanding of core security principles, including Zero Trust, defence-in-depth, least privilege, secure-by-design, and resilience-by-design.
• Familiarity with Cloud security (Azure, AWS, GCP), Network security, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Application security / DevSecOps, Infrastructure and platform security, or Continuous Threat Exposure Management.
• Ability to analyse technical risks and communicate recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI-enabled tools to improve productivity, delivery quality, or security outcomes.
• Industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, SABSA, TOGAF, Security+, or equivalent.
• Knowledge of financial services regulations and frameworks, including PRA, FCA, DORA, NIS2, ISO 27001, and NIST.
• Understanding of emerging technologies such as quantum, agentic progression.
• Understanding of operational resilience, technology resilience, and risk management practices.
• Familiarity with banking, payments, capital markets, or insurance technology environments.
• Experience supporting security assessments, audits, or compliance reviews.
• Consulting experience and exposure to client-facing engagements.

Skills

• Cyber Security
• Security Architecture
• Solution Architecture
• Technology Risk
• Cloud security (Azure, AWS, GCP)
• Network security
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Application security / DevSecOps
• Infrastructure and platform security
• Continuous Threat Exposure Management
• AI-enabled tools
• CISSP
• CISM
• CCSP
• SABSA
• TOGAF
• Security+
• PRA
• FCA
• DORA
• NIS2
• ISO 27001
• NIST
• Quantum
• Agentic progression
• Operational resilience
• Technology resilience
• Risk management

Location

• UK (With Client Travel)

Work Type

• Flexible
• Hybrid
• Client Travel

Experience Level

• Consultant

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree in Cyber Security, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, SABSA, TOGAF, Security+, or equivalent.

Salary/Compensations

• Competitive Salary & Package (Dependent on Experience)

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave, plus public holidays
• Private medical insurance
• Three days of paid volunteering leave each year
• Access to industry-leading learning, certifications, and career development programmes
• Opportunities to work with leading financial institutions and global organisations
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements

About the Company

• Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services.
• We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person.
• Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity.
• Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.
• We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries.
• Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships.
• We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability.
• Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships.
• We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
• Visit us at www.accenture.com

Equal Opportunity

• We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences.
• All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by applicable law.
• Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.