Endpoint Security Lead at Accenture · Canberra

Endpoint Security Lead Location: Canberra, Brindabella Business Park About Accenture Accenture is a leading solutions and services company that helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed across the enterprise, bringing together the talent of our approximately 786,000 people, our proprietary assets and platforms, and deep ecosystem relationships. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. Through our Reinvention Services we bring together our capabilities across strategy, consulting, technology, operations, Song and Industry X with our deep industry expertise to create and deliver solutions and services for our clients. Our purpose is to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity, and we measure our success by the 360° value we create for all our stakeholders. Visit us at www.accenture.com. Join Accenture and help transform leading organisations and communities around the world.  The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance.  Choose Accenture and make delivering innovative work part of your extraordinary career. About the role We are seeking an experienced Endpoint Security Team Lead to provide technical leadership and delivery accountability across enterprise endpoint security, data loss prevention, and vulnerability management capabilities. This role is accountable for solution integrity, delivery quality, and team coordination across endpoint protection, endpoint detection and response, DLP controls, vulnerability scanning, remediation workflows, and operational handover. You will act as the senior client-facing technical authority for endpoint security delivery, working closely with security, infrastructure, operations, and application stakeholders in complex, regulated environments. What you'll be responsible for Own the end-to-end technical delivery of endpoint security, DLP, and vulnerability management workstreams. Define and govern target-state endpoint security architecture, implementation patterns, and platform integration approaches. Lead technical planning, sequencing, prioritisation, and dependency management across endpoint security initiatives. Act as the primary client-facing technical authority for endpoint protection, DLP, and vulnerability management design decisions. Provide technical leadership to endpoint security engineers, process consultants, analysts, testers, and operational support teams. Oversee implementation and tuning of Trellix endpoint security controls, including endpoint protection, policy configuration, alert handling, and operational readiness. Oversee implementation and operationalisation of Tenable vulnerability management capabilities, including scan strategy, asset coverage, prioritisation, reporting, and remediation workflows. Ensure endpoint security controls are aligned with security policy, compliance requirements, and operational support models. Manage technical risks, cross-platform dependencies, delivery issues, and security control gaps. Review and approve architecture artefacts, detailed designs, configuration standards, runbooks, and operational handover material. What we're looking for Approximately 10 years’ experience in endpoint security, security engineering, infrastructure security, or cyber security delivery roles. Proven experience leading endpoint security or vulnerability management delivery teams in enterprise environments. Strong understanding of endpoint protection, EDR, DLP, vulnerability management, asset coverage, control tuning, and operational integration. Hands-on or architecture-level experience with Trellix and Tenable, or equivalent enterprise security platforms. Ability to engage senior stakeholders, lead technical workshops, and provide clear delivery direction. Strong judgement across security risk, implementation pragmatism, operational readiness, and delivery assurance. Experience operating in regulated, security-sensitive, or complex enterprise environments. Security Clearance Current Australian Government security clearance (Baseline, NV1 or higher), or Eligibility and willingness to undergo security clearance. Must be willing to work onsite 5 days a week Benefits of working at Accenture: ·       18 weeks paid parental leave ·       Long & short-term career break opportunities ·       Structured career development program ·       Local and international career opportunities. ·       Certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace™ ·       Flexible Work Arrangements - centered around Accenture’s Truly Human ethos and our commitment to supporting the health and wellbeing of our people. ·       We are proud to be in the top 3 of last year’s Diversity & Inclusion Index! We are a WORK180 Endorsed Employer, to see our benefits and policies click here All our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You’ll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career. Accenture is a an EEO and Affirmative Action Employee of Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities. Equal Employment Opportunity Statement for Australia: At Accenture, we recognise that our people are multi-dimensional, and we create a work environment where all people feel like they can bring their authentic selves to work, every day. Our unwavering commitment to inclusion and diversity unleashes innovation and creates a culture where everyone feels they have equal opportunity. 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To achieve these goals, we collect information that allows us to track the effectiveness of our Inclusion and Diversity programs. Learn how Accenture protects your personal data and know your rights in relation to your personal data. Read more about our Privacy Statement. #LI_GM About Accenture Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. 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 atwww.accenture.com Equal Employment Opportunity Statement for Australia: At Accenture, our intention is to foster a culture and a workplace in which all of our people feel a sense of belonging and are respected and empowered to do their best work. As part of our talent strategy, we hire and develop people who have different backgrounds, different perspectives and different lived experiences. These differences ensure that we have and attract the cognitive diversity to deliver a variety of perspectives, observations and insights which are essential to drive the innovation needed to reinvent, and we hold our leaders accountable for ensuring we have the most innovative and talented people in our industry. We encourage applications from all people, and we are committed to removing barriers to the recruitment process and employee lifecycle. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, religion or sexual orientation and we do not tolerate discrimination. If you require adjustments to the recruitment process or have a preferred communication method, please email exectalent@accenture.com and cite the relevant Job Number, or contact us on +61 2 9005 5000. Learn how Accenture protects your personal data and know your rights in relation to your personal data. 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