Security Delivery Associate Manager
Role summary
The Security Delivery Lead is responsible for leading the implementation and delivery of security services engagements, leveraging global delivery capabilities, standardized methods, tools, training, and assets. This role provides technical and delivery leadership across security programs, ensuring high-quality outcomes, strong governance, and alignment with organizational and client expectations.
The Security Delivery Lead acts as a subject matter expert, accountable for team performance, delivery decisions, and cross-team coordination. The role requires strong expertise in Security Operations Center (SOC) planning and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), with a focus on risk management, continuous improvement, and mentoring high-performing security teams.
Key responsibilities
Security delivery leadership- Lead the end-to-end delivery of security services projects, ensuring alignment with scope, timelines, quality standards, and delivery objectives.
- Develop, maintain, and govern comprehensive delivery and project plans to ensure predictable and timely outcomes.
- Make delivery-level decisions for assigned teams and engagements, contributing to key program and account decisions.
- Coordinate and engage with multiple delivery and support teams to ensure seamless execution across the security landscape.
- Act as a subject matter expert in Security Operations Center (SOC) planning, providing guidance on design, implementation, and operational readiness.
- Apply expert-level knowledge of SIEM platforms, with a strong preference for Splunk SIEM, to support effective security monitoring and response capabilities.
- Apply advanced security delivery governance principles to ensure consistency, control, and compliance across engagements.
- Proactively identify delivery, technical, and operational risks, implementing mitigation strategies to protect delivery outcomes.
- Ensure issues and escalations are managed effectively through appropriate governance and leadership channels.
- Continuously assess security service delivery effectiveness and drive improvements aligned with industry best practices and organizational standards.
- Foster a collaborative and high-performance team environment through regular engagement, clear communication, and structured delivery cadence.
- Mentor and coach team members to enhance technical capability, delivery maturity, and professional development.
- Support workload management and team effectiveness to ensure sustainable delivery models.
- Ensure security delivery processes, controls, and documentation meet internal governance, audit, and compliance requirements.
- Contribute to the evolution of delivery methods, tools, and assets by identifying improvement opportunities and lessons learned.
- Support leadership reporting and governance forums with clear insights on delivery health, risks, and performance trends.
Key skills & experience
- Proven experience leading security delivery engagements in complex, multi-team environments.
- Expert proficiency in SOC planning and security operations delivery.
- Strong hands-on experience with SIEM platforms, preferably Splunk SIEM.
- Advanced understanding of security delivery governance, risk management, and quality controls.
- Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Leadership attributes
- Accountable and decisive delivery leader with strong ownership mindset.
- Ability to balance technical depth with governance and delivery oversight.
- Collaborative leader who builds trust across teams and stakeholders.
- Continuous improvement mindset with a focus on quality, resilience, and sustainability.
About the company
This 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. It is 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 the company is one of the world's leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. It combines strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data, and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise, and global delivery capability. Its broad range of services, solutions, and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X, and Song, together with a culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable it to help clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. Success is measured by the 360° value created for clients, each other, shareholders, partners, and communities.
Equal employment opportunity statement
It is believed 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, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship status, or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Rich diversity makes the company more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps better serve clients and communities.