Security Architecture Manager

Security Architecture Manager

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Protiviti is looking for a Technology Consulting Manager to join our growing Cybersecurity Program & Strategy Architecture practice.

Enterprise security is being rewritten in real time. AI and agentic systems are reshaping the threat landscape, cloud-native architectures are now the default, and zero trust has moved from concept to expectation. Our clients, across financial services, healthcare, energy, technology, and manufacturing, need architects who can connect identity, data, network, workload, application, and AI into one coherent design.

That's the job. You'll work alongside Fortune 500 leaders to design security architectures that hold up in front of a CISO, a board, and an auditor, and that actually let the business move faster.

As a Manager, you'll partner with our clients to solve complex business problems and provide impactful advice and solutions. You'll develop lasting relationships with client personnel and further these relationships through quality product delivery. You'll foster a network within the business community and serve as an ambassador of Protiviti in the market. You will also be a mentor, trainer, and coach to Consultants and Senior Consultants as you facilitate the successful completion of project work plans.

You enjoy designing enterprise security architecture.

You are motivated to learn and interested in all things related to AI's impact on security, including the latest trends and developments.

You're a self-starter. You don't wait to be told what to learn. When a new framework, technology, or threat shows up, you go find out about it on your own because you find the work genuinely interesting. You see problems and you fix them. You'd rather build a better way than complain about the current one.

You're curious about AI and what it means for security and for your own craft. Maybe you've experimented with the tools, maybe you're using them to make your own work faster, maybe you've already started forming views on where this is heading. Wherever you are on that journey, you're actively engaged, not waiting it out.

You care about the people on your team. You want to be the reason someone two or three levels below you grows into the next senior leader in this practice.

Design enterprise security architectures across cloud, identity, data, network (zero trust, SASE/SSE), application, and where relevant OT/IoT domains.

Help clients navigate AI's impact on security. Secure adoption patterns, governance, and emerging risks from LLMs and agentic systems. You don't need to be the world's foremost AI expert on day one, but you should be genuinely engaged with where this is going.

Translate architecture into roadmaps mapped to NIST CSF 2.0, ISO 27001, CRI Profile, CMMC, and industry-specific regimes and defend those roadmaps in front of executive sponsors.

Run engagement teams of consultants and senior consultants. Coach them, raise their ceiling, and help build the next generation of architects in the practice.

Build what comes next. Contribute to reference architectures, accelerators, and thought leadership.

Help win the work. Partner with directors and managing directors on pursuits, proposals, and client strategy.

Lead the security architecture workstream on 24 multi-quarter engagements.

Deliver at least one reference architecture or accelerator that becomes a reusable Protiviti asset.

Contribute to a published point of view, white paper, or external talk.

Develop one consultant or senior consultant into a stronger architect.

Direct involvement in some of the largest, most complex security transformations happening today.

Investment in your growth. Conferences, certifications, learning time, and access to senior mentors who want you to succeed.

A clear path from Manager ? Senior Manager ? Associate Director ? Director ? Managing Director, with named sponsors at every step.

Internal mobility across Protiviti's global practice and Robert Half's broader platform.

A hybrid model built around the work: time on-site with clients and teammates when it matters, and the flexibility to do focused work where you're most effective.

Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., CS, CE, MIS, math, physics, EE, or similar) or equivalent demonstrated experience.

5+ years working in professional services or industry.

Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite applications with specific emphasis on Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Secondary emphasis on Visio and Access.

Professional Certification such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, CISA or equivalent preferred.