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Practice Lead - Operational Technology Security

  • Toronto, ON
  • Hybrid
  • Posted Oct 14, 2026
  • 1 position

$161,050–$319,300 / year

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Employment type
Full-time
Experience level
Lead · 10+ years
Posting language
English
Working hours
40 hours per week

Job summary

The Practice Lead will define, grow, and lead the Operational Technology (OT) Security Consulting business in Canada. Responsibilities include driving business development, managing C-suite client relationships, and overseeing large-scale solution delivery.

Job details

We Are Accenture Security helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond, and recover along all points of the security lifecycle. Cybersecurity challenges are different for every business in every industry. Leveraging our global resources and advanced technologies, we create integrated, turnkey solutions tailored to our clients’ needs across their entire value chain. Whether we’re defending against known cyberattacks, detecting and responding to the unknown, or running an entire security operations center, we will help companies build cyber resilience to grow with confidence. Our team of the security sector’s brightest people use the coolest tech to out-hack the hackers and help clients build resilience from within. We blend risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security and managed service solutions to rethink the entire security lifecycle. You Are Passionate about security, love what you do and have a genuine desire to outsmart the bad guys. You have the experience to analyze a clients’ security posture, anticipate security requirements and help find right-sized solutions based on industry leading practices. You have a proven track record working successfully in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment. You’re a creative, analytical problem solver with above average documentation skills who can speak to both technical and non-technical audiences. Can apply deep security skills to design, build and protect enterprise systems, applications, data, assets and people for Accenture and our clients. You are eager to put your skills to use by helping us help our clients inject security at every level of their organization. Job Description This senior leadership role will be responsible for defining, growing, and leading Accenture's Operational Technology (OT) Security Consulting business in Canada. The successful candidate will own market development, strategic client relationships, large-scale delivery execution, talent growth, and the evolution of Accenture's OT cybersecurity offerings. As a recognized industry leader, they will help clients secure critical infrastructure environments while driving profitable growth and differentiation for Accenture. This leader will: • Drive business development activities including origination, qualification, capture and relationship development • Maintain relationships with key client stakeholders at the VP and C-suite level • Lead development of written and oral client proposals • Assist in driving overall security practice growth • Develop, plan and lead large-scale solution delivery efforts for OT across a broad range of industries • Lead, attract and retain multi-discipline, and multi-region teams Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below. The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand new position. The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role. It does not represent a maximum limit — in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate. Information on benefits is here. Role Location Annual Salary Range British Columbia/Ontario/New Brunswick $161,050 to $319,300 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 at www.accenture.com Equal Employment Opportunity Statement We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, military veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.

What you’ll do

The Practice Lead will define, grow, and lead the Operational Technology (OT) Security Consulting business in Canada. Responsibilities include driving business development, managing C-suite client relationships, and overseeing large-scale solution delivery.

Requirements

The role requires a recognized industry leader with a proven track record in security consulting and business growth. Candidates must possess strong analytical skills and the ability to communicate complex security requirements to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Listed skills

  • Business development · Preferred
  • Client Relationship Management · Preferred
  • Leadership · Preferred
  • Problem solving · Preferred
  • Communication Skills · Preferred

Other relevant skills

Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.

  • Operational Technology Security
  • Cybersecurity
  • Risk Strategy
  • Digital Identity
  • Cyber Defense
  • Application Security
  • Business Development
  • Strategic Planning
  • Client Relationship Management
  • Leadership
  • Critical Infrastructure Protection
  • Consulting
  • Problem Solving
  • Communication Skills
  • Project Delivery
  • Building Trust
  • Security Consulting
  • Resilience
  • Cyber Resilience
  • Cyberattack
  • Cyber Security
  • Global Delivery Model
  • Innovation
  • Managed Services
  • Market Development
  • Operations
  • Profitable Growth
  • Security Requirements Analysis
  • Team Oriented
  • Revenue Growth
  • Enterprise Application Software
  • Solution Delivery

Job areas

  • Security & Safety
  • Consulting
  • Management & Leadership
  • Technology
  • Engineering
  • Technology Security Manager
  • Security Supervisor
  • Security Guards
  • First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers

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