Managing Principal - Cybersecurity Strategy & Transformation

Shape the Future of Cybersecurity in Financial Services

The Role

As a Managing Principal within Capco’s Cybersecurity practice, you will play a key leadership role in growing, delivering, and shaping our cybersecurity consulting services across the financial services sector.

You will advise senior executives, including CISOs, CROs, and CIOs, on complex cybersecurity challenges, while leading strategic client engagements, developing consulting talent, and building capabilities that respond to evolving market needs.

Your work will span cyber risk management, identity and access management, security architecture and engineering, operational resilience, and emerging technologies.

Cybersecurity is evolving rapidly. AI, cloud transformation, automation, and changing regulatory expectations are reshaping how financial institutions manage security, risk, and resilience. You will help clients understand these changes, respond to emerging threats, and develop practical strategies that deliver measurable business outcomes.

This role combines strategic advisory, consulting delivery, business development, and practice leadership. We welcome candidates with deep expertise in one or more cybersecurity disciplines, a broad understanding of the security lifecycle, and an interest in helping grow a consulting practice.

What You’ll Do

• Client Advisory & Engagement: Advise senior stakeholders on cybersecurity strategy, governance, technology risk, security architecture, and regulatory expectations. Lead complex consulting engagements from opportunity development through delivery and measurable outcomes.

• Cybersecurity Practice Leadership: Develop and expand Capco’s capabilities across cyber and technology risk, AI security, identity and access management, security engineering, third-party risk, and operational resilience. Shape new offerings, methodologies, and market perspectives.

• Delivery Excellence: Oversee multidisciplinary teams delivering cybersecurity transformation programs, ensuring alignment with client objectives, budgets, timelines, and quality standards. Provide strategic direction while empowering technical specialists and delivery teams.

• Business Development & Growth: Build trusted client relationships, identify commercial opportunities, shape proposals, and contribute to executive presentations, partnerships, and go-to-market initiatives that support practice growth.

• Talent & Capability Development: Recruit, mentor, and develop consulting talent, strengthen leadership capabilities, and foster an inclusive, collaborative environment that supports continuous learning and high-quality delivery.

What We’re Looking For

• Cybersecurity Expertise: Significant progressive experience in cybersecurity, technology risk, security architecture, engineering, identity, or cybersecurity consulting, ideally within financial services. Depth in at least one specialist area, alongside a broad understanding of cybersecurity strategy and delivery.

• Consulting & Executive Advisory: Experience advising senior stakeholders, structuring complex challenges, translating technical risks into business priorities, and delivering practical solutions. Experience in a consulting firm, financial institution, technology provider, or complex enterprise environment is welcome.

• Program & Delivery Leadership: Demonstrated experience leading significant cybersecurity programs, managing multidisciplinary teams, overseeing complex engagements, and delivering outcomes across the cybersecurity lifecycle.

• Commercial & Practice Development: Experience developing client relationships, contributing to business development, building capabilities, or scaling consulting services. An interest in identifying new opportunities and shaping the future direction of cybersecurity consulting.

• Industry, Technology & Regulatory Knowledge: Understanding of financial services cybersecurity, emerging technologies including AI, and relevant frameworks such as NIST CSF, ISO 27001, COBIT, and FFIEC. Effective executive communication, facilitation, and relationship-management skills.

Bonus Points For

• Recognized certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CISA, CCSP, or relevant cloud, identity, architecture, and vendor certifications.

• Experience developing or scaling cybersecurity teams, consulting offerings, client portfolios, or strategic partnerships.

• Knowledge of how cybersecurity intersects with AI, cloud, data protection, digital transformation, technology risk, and financial crime.

• External thought leadership, industry participation, or established relationships within the financial services and cybersecurity communities.

• A collaborative leadership approach, commercial awareness, and an interest in emerging technologies and evolving cybersecurity practices.

Why Join Capco

• Help shape and scale Capco’s growing cybersecurity consulting practice in Canada.

• Work with leading financial institutions on complex cybersecurity, technology risk, and resilience challenges.

• Contribute to innovative solutions at the intersection of cybersecurity, AI, and financial services transformation.

• Build new consulting capabilities, develop talent, and strengthen strategic client relationships.

• Be part of a collaborative, entrepreneurial, and inclusive consulting culture, with opportunities for continuous learning, coaching, and leadership development.

Benefits

We offer a competitive, people-first benefits package designed to support every aspect of your life:

• Comprehensive Benefits Coverage: Enjoy 100% company-paid health, life, and disability insurance, effective from Day 1 of employment.

• Retirement Savings Program: Build your financial future through a Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), with the option of receiving a matching employer contribution.

• Virtual Health Care: Access a company-paid virtual health care program available to employees and their dependents/partners.

• Employee & Family Assistance Program: Receive company-paid support services for you and your dependents/partners.

• Parental Leave Top-Up: Benefit from enhanced parental leave support available from Day 1 of employment.

• New Parent Gift: Celebrate the arrival of a new child with a company-sponsored gift.

• Wellness Support: Take advantage of fitness reimbursement benefits designed to support your health and well-being.

• Business Coach from Day 1: Receive personalized one-on-one coaching to support your career growth, accelerate development, and help achieve your professional goals at Capco.

Inclusion at Capco

We’re committed to making our recruitment process accessible and straightforward for everyone. If you need any adjustments at any stage, just let us know – we’ll be happy to help.

We value each person’s unique perspective and contribution. At Capco, we believe that being yourself is your greatest strength. Our #BeYourselfAtWork culture encourages individuality and collaboration – a mindset that shapes how we work with clients and each other every day.

 

We are currently hiring for this role due to an existing or newly created vacancy within our organization. This position is open as part of our ongoing business needs, and we are actively reviewing applications to fill this role with a qualified candidate who can make an immediate impact.

 

At Capco, we use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support and enhance several parts of talent acquisition. This includes using AI-enabled features within LinkedIn to help source potential candidates, speeding up routine recruitment communications such as emails and creating compelling and brand-aligned job postings that accurately reflect role requirements, and AI-scheduling applications to improve the efficiency of interview coordination.

 

AI is used as a support tool only. All hiring decisions are made by talent acquisition and hiring teams.