Federal - Security Risk and Compliance Consultant
Washington, DC

Job Description

Organization: Accenture Federal Services

Location: Washington D.C. Metro

Travel: Minimal

Accenture Federal Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Accenture, helps U.S. federal agencies build the government of the future. With 4,000 dedicated US employees, Accenture Federal Services is uniquely positioned to support federal agencies in shattering the status quo, achieving profound efficiencies and relentlessly delivering results. Accenture Federal Services is a long-time and trusted resource for the federal community. Every cabinet level agency in the United States-and 20 of the country's largest federal government agencies-have worked with Accenture Federal Services to achieve outcomes and move toward high performance. Join us and you can help our federal clients achieve what matters most, powering the services that touch the nation every day.

Accenture Federal Services Security practice helps organizations work through complex business and technology issues to provide a straightforward approach to information and network security. Our security professionals bring deep technology skills and industry knowledge to any organization and work closely with clients to design and implement a security solution closely tied to business objectives.

Our consultants identify and evaluate business needs for security gaps and will help to create security project plans. They also anticipate security requirements and identify sound security controls for applications, systems, processes and organizations. Our consultants can easily work with non-security teams to integrate security controls on projects.

Key Responsibilities:

* Responsible for supporting the delivery of Accenture Federal Services' cyber security offerings application security, identity and access management, infrastructure security, managed security services, risk and compliance, mobile security, and IT audit.


* Security generalist familiar with security frameworks, architectures, compliance requirements and security planning and operations.


* Ability to lead junior security analysts.


* Conversant in basic project management principles and project quality methods.


* Preference for at least one current recognized security professional certification such as CISSP, CISM, CISA or ISO 27001 Lead Auditor.


* Experience with FedRamp and DoD Cloud Security is preferred.