Security Architect
About the job
- A minimum of 7.5 years of experience in BeyondTrust Privileged Access Management.
- BeyondTrust Implementation Certification is mandatory.
- Hands-on experience with BeyondTrust Password Safe, Privileged Access Management, Privileged Session Management, BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management, Privileged Remote Access, and BeyondInsight.
- Strong understanding of Windows and Linux systems, Active Directory, LDAP, Group Policy Objects, networking fundamentals, and enterprise security.
- Experience working in high-availability, multi-node, and enterprise privileged access management environments.
- Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, incident, escalation, and service-restoration skills.
- Hands-on experience administering, architecting, configuring, and operationally supporting Password Safe.
- Experience with Password Management, Managed Accounts, Account Groups, Access Policy, Smart Rules, and privileged account lifecycle management.
- Experience discovering and onboarding privileged, service, local, domain, application, and infrastructure accounts.
- Experience managing application, service, database, and infrastructure secrets using Secrets and Secret Safe.
- Experience with Privileged Session Management, session recording and management, session policies, monitoring, and audit requirements.
- Experience with BeyondInsight monitoring, reporting, logs, alerts, and operational health checks.
- Experience with LDAP and Active Directory integration, including authentication, authorization, group and role mapping, single sign-on, and multifactor authentication.
- Experience configuring, connecting, and troubleshooting Resource Broker in distributed privileged access management environments.
- Experience developing or supporting custom plugin solutions and application programming interface or REST API integrations for BeyondTrust.
- Strong PowerShell scripting and automation experience for onboarding, validation, health checks, reporting, and privileged access management operations.
- Experience integrating BeyondTrust with SailPoint IdentityIQ and Splunk.
- Strong hands-on experience with Endpoint Privilege Management, including agent deployments, endpoint upgrades, application control policies, and least-privilege enforcement.
- Strong hands-on experience with Privileged Remote Access, including upgrades, Jump Point creation and management, privileged remote access, and troubleshooting.
- Experience supporting endpoint, application, and privileged account onboarding.
- Proven experience planning and executing BeyondTrust upgrade and migration activities, including pre-checks, backups, compatibility validation, implementation, rollback planning, and post-upgrade validation.
- Experience with platform upgrades across Password Safe, BeyondInsight, Endpoint Privilege Management, and Privileged Remote Access environments.
- Experience with privileged access management migration activities, including account onboarding and migration, policy migration, integrations, validation, and cutover support.
- Ability to create technical documentation, implementation standards, operational procedures, upgrade plans, and troubleshooting guides.
- Ability to lead engineers, allocate technical tasks, provide guidance, perform quality checks, and act as the first-level technical escalation point.
- Ability to mentor engineers on BeyondTrust tools, privileged access management best practices, troubleshooting, automation, and security standards.
- Experience coordinating with IAM, infrastructure, network, security, application, and compliance teams.
- Ability to ensure adherence to operational processes, security standards, service-level agreement requirements, change management, audit, and compliance requirements.
- Experience with Microsoft LAPS, AutoIt scripting, IAM fundamentals, SSO, MFA, SailPoint IdentityIQ, Splunk, and enterprise privileged access management integrations.
- Strong communication, documentation, stakeholder management, and team coordination skills.
- 15 years of full-time education.
- Define the cloud security framework and architecture to meet business requirements and performance goals.
- Document the implementation of cloud security controls and transition them to cloud security-managed operations.
- Own day-to-day operations for BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management and Privileged Remote Access.
- Handle technical escalations and deliver key activities such as Privileged Remote Access upgrades and Jump Point management.
- Contribute technically while guiding engineers, enforcing best practices, and ensuring high service reliability.
- Perform Password Safe administration, architecture, configuration, and operational support.
- Configure and support Password Management, Access Policy, Smart Rules, discovery, onboarding, secrets management, session management, monitoring, reporting, and operational health checks.
- Plan and execute BeyondTrust upgrades, migrations, validations, implementations, rollback plans, and post-upgrade checks.
- Create technical documentation, implementation standards, operational procedures, upgrade plans, and troubleshooting guides.
- Coordinate with IAM, infrastructure, network, security, application, and compliance teams.
- Ensure adherence to operational processes, security standards, service-level agreement requirements, change management, audit, and compliance requirements.
- Experience with CyberArk or other enterprise privileged access management platforms.
About the company
Accenture advises large businesses and public agencies on strategy, builds their technology systems and runs ongoing operations. Its teams connect business planning with implementation, covering areas such as cloud migration, cybersecurity and customer experience. Consultants work with clients to redesign processes, while engineers integrate software from technology partners and maintain the resulting systems for multinational organizations. Clients pay for project work or continuing services, including application support and business processes such as finance and customer service. Accenture was founded in 1989 and has its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Dublin, Ireland
Founded
1989
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What believers are saying
- Business demand grew: October 2026 results showed $74.2 billion annual revenue, up 5% in local currency.
- Eligible US employees buy discounted stock: Accenture's purchase plan sells shares at 15% below market price.
- Client relationships run deep: Accenture has worked with 195 of its top 200 customers for more than ten years.
What critics are saying
- Bookings are not guaranteed revenue: most Accenture contracts let clients cancel quickly with little or no penalty.
- Promotions require AI adoption: Accenture's CEO said in March 2026 that employees must use its tools effectively.
- Federal hiring practices proved costly: Accenture settled discrimination allegations for $25 million in September 2026, without a liability finding.
What makes Accenture unique
- Its AI platform switches models: AI Refinery selects among prebuilt models according to cost, performance and other requirements.
- Accenture owns specialist Microsoft expertise: it cofounded the Microsoft-focused Avanade consultancy with the software maker.
- Consulting includes creative agencies: Accenture Song owns businesses spanning advertising, digital product design and customer engagement.
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Accenture will hold an Investor Day on October 14, where it is expected to detail its long-term strategy, AI monetisation plans, growth guidance, and margin expansion goals. The event follows a rebound in its shares after fears that AI would erode traditional consulting work. The stock hit a low of $118.15 in June, down from a January high of $291.09. It has since gained nearly 77%, helped by fourth-quarter results on October 1 and an expanded collaboration with Dell Technologies. Fourth-quarter revenue rose 6% to $18.7 billion, and new bookings reached $22.2 billion. Accenture expects fiscal 2027 revenue growth of 3% to 6% in local currency. It raised its quarterly dividend by 5% to $1.71 per share, payable November 13, 2026. Its market capitalisation is about $139.6 billion.
Accenture has acquired Sagacity, a London-based data and customer intelligence firm, to strengthen Accenture Song's AI-powered customer services. The deal brings more than 140 professionals to Accenture Song's UK and Ireland operations. Terms were not disclosed. Founded in 2005 by Anita Dougall, Malka Townshend, and Harry Dougall, Sagacity offers data assets, AI-enabled technology, and customer intelligence expertise. Accenture says clients want to connect data, AI, and operations into unified programmes that deliver measurable results. The move targets industries with large customer bases, such as utilities, retail, banking, and telecommunications. "Sagacity's deep expertise and outcome-focused approach will enhance our ability to help clients turn insight into action," said Sohel Aziz, senior managing director of Accenture Song, UK and Ireland.
TM Forum has launched a multi-year Trustworthy AI programme with Accenture to help telecoms deploy autonomous operations with verifiable trust standards. The initiative will deliver the industry's first Trustworthy AI Governance Certification, providing a benchmark for trusted AI deployment. Recent TM Forum research found that whilst 72% of communications service providers believe their AI capabilities are trustworthy, only 14% can verify their claims. The programme aims to transform AI trust from aspiration into measurable operational capability. The certification will help organisations assess governance maturity, workforce readiness, and operational accountability needed to scale AI autonomously. It will operate through TM Forum's AI-Native Collaboration Studios, where telecoms operators, vendors, and partners will contribute real-world use cases to shape the framework.
Accenture reported revenue of nearly $74.2 billion for fiscal year 2026, up 6.5% year-over-year, with net income of roughly $8.5 billion. The professional services firm serves approximately 9,000 clients globally with 814,000 employees. Microsoft generated revenue of nearly $331.8 billion in FY 2026, a 17.8% increase, with net income of approximately $133.7 billion. The company's net margin reached close to 40.3%. Both companies maintained a debt-to-equity ratio of approximately 0.3x. Microsoft's free cash flow reached nearly $67.0 billion, whilst Accenture's was roughly $11.6 billion. Accenture recently addressed a $25 million settlement with the Department of Justice regarding federal contracting practices. Microsoft faces securities fraud class action lawsuits involving AI and Copilot claims, alongside antitrust scrutiny and an IRS tax audit.
Accenture shares surged 17% on Thursday after reporting strong fourth-quarter results. The company posted revenue of $18.7 billion, up 6% year-over-year, while earnings per share jumped 46% to $3.29. Management's full-year revenue growth forecast of 4.5% exceeded analyst expectations of 4%. Net bookings rose 4% to $22.2 billion. The company plans to return at least $9.5 billion to shareholders this financial year. However, TD Cowen analyst Bryan Bergin maintained a hold rating, citing concerns that the stock is fully priced at 15 times forward earnings. He cautioned that one strong quarter may represent a cyclical bounce rather than structural growth acceleration. Despite this, Wall Street remains optimistic, with a "moderate buy" consensus rating. Accenture currently offers a 3.05% dividend yield.