Full-Time

Security Architect

Posted on 6/3/2026

Accenture

Accenture

10,001+ employees

Global professional services and technology consulting

No salary listed

Hyderabad, Telangana, India + 1 more

More locations: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

In Person

Position is based all over India; location determined by business needs.

Category
IT & Security
Required Skills
Python
Requirements
  • Minimum 5 year(s) of experience is required
  • AI Red Team Specialist with 6–9 years of hands-on experience on adversarial testing of GenAI, LLM Application, AI agents and ML powered applications to identify real world abuse scenarios, data leakage risks, and control gaps
  • Educational Qualification: 15 years full time education
  • Must have skills: Secure AI
  • Professional & Technical Skills: Strong Python scripting skills for PoC development, automation, and API testing
  • Experience with OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS, and other AI security testing frameworks and attack taxonomies
  • Familiarity with LLM deployment models (hosted APIs, self hosted models) and associated threat surfaces
  • Experience with AI security/red teaming tools such as Garak, Giskard, Promptfoo, Counterfit, DeepEval, or similar frameworks
  • Clear documentation skills with ability to convert technical findings into actionable remediation guidance
  • Preferred certifications: AI Red Teaming Professional (AIRTP+), HTB Certified Offensive AI Expert (COAE), OSCP, CRTP & CISSP
  • Professional experience includes: Hands on experience in red teaming, penetration testing, or vulnerability validation for applications or cloud services
  • Strong grasp of Generative and Agentic AI, prompt engineering, and AI evaluation frameworks
  • Ability to align AI capabilities with business objectives while ensuring scalability, responsible use, and tangible value realization
Responsibilities
  • Lead AI-driven solution design and delivery by applying GenAI and Agentic AI to address complex business challenges, automate processes, and integrate intelligent insights into enterprise workflows for measurable impact
  • Execute hands on adversarial testing of LLM based applications, including prompt injection, indirect prompt injection, and jailbreak scenarios
  • Perform security testing of RAG pipelines, prompt chains, and AI driven workflows to identify data leakage and unsafe output risks
  • Test agentic workflows for excessive permissions, unsafe tool usage, unauthorized actions, and inappropriate data access
  • Evaluate input/output guardrails such as content filtering, policy enforcement, grounding, and sensitive data masking
  • Conduct API level testing of AI services and supporting components including gateways, tools/plugins, and vector database endpoints
  • Perform adversarial testing for multimodal models (e.g., image/audio prompt injection where applicable)
  • Simulate cross-agent and prompt-chaining attacks across multi-step workflows
  • Test long-term memory risks in agents (memory poisoning, context manipulation, persistence attacks)
  • Evaluate model alignment and safety boundaries (policy evasion, harmful output generation, misuse scenarios)
  • Reproduce issues consistently, collect technical evidence, and document practical, remediation ready findings
  • Support remediation validation by retesting fixes and confirming control effectiveness and residual risk
  • Contribute test cases, scripts, and repeatable scenarios to improve coverage and consistency of AI red team testing
  • Collaborate with application, platform, and security teams to explain findings and validate mitigations
  • Map attack scenarios to frameworks such as MITRE ATLAS and maintain traceability to OWASP LLM Top 10 risks
  • Evaluate risks related to training data exposure, embedding leakage, insecure retrieval behavior, and unauthorized knowledge access
  • Identify weaknesses in model-to-tool trust boundaries, including insecure function calling, unsafe parameter passing, and tool output manipulation
  • Track and report testing metrics such as attack success rate, guardrail bypass rate, and coverage across AI systems
Desired Qualifications
  • None

Accenture is a global professional services firm that helps companies navigate technology-driven change. It offers strategies and services across consulting, digital, technology, and operations, with a strong emphasis on cloud, artificial intelligence, security, and enterprise reinvention. Accenture works by delivering end-to-end solutions, combining advisory work with implementation, technology platforms, and managed services to transform how organizations operate and compete in today’s digital world. The company differentiates itself through its long history as a dedicated tech-advisory arm that gained independence in 2001, its scale, and its active acquisitions—particularly since 2013—to expand capabilities in digital, cloud, and security. Its goal is to help the world’s largest corporations rethink and reshape their operations to stay ahead of rapid technological shifts.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Dublin, Ireland

Founded

1989

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What believers are saying

  • Monetize AI maturity model as lead-gen tool for AI assessment and roadmap engagements beyond thought leadership
  • Package 8-dimension advisory offer to drive multi-phase transformation work across clients
  • Use assessment baselines for subscription-like diagnostics or repeat assessments within large enterprise accounts

What critics are saying

  • AI displacement caused record 18% single-day stock drop, signaling immediate erosion of core consulting revenue streams
  • $4.2B Dragos acquisition amid declining bookings exposes flawed M&A strategy that may dilute margins without scalable OT revenue
  • US federal decline and Middle East uncertainty create near-term revenue cliff likely triggering layoffs and further guidance cuts

What makes Accenture unique

  • Owns empirically validated AI Adoption Maturity Model with Carnegie Mellon SEI across eight dimensions and five levels
  • Pioneers $10B cybersecurity business expanding into underserved OT security via $4.2B Dragos and OT acquisitions
  • Leads enterprise reinvention with 104 client bookings over $100M, integrating AI into products rather than just frameworks

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