Are you passionate about designing innovative, sustainable, and competitive cybersecurity solutions?
Are you a thought leader with deep expertise in industrial automation and control systems (IACS) and OT cybersecurity?

If so, this role gives you the opportunity to turn that passion into impact — identifying security gaps, shaping security strategies, and advising clients on the optimal use of cybersecurity solutions in complex industrial environments.

What You Will Do

As our Senior Solution Architect for Industrial & OT Cybersecurity, you will play a key role in defining, designing, and advancing cybersecurity solutions for industrial automation and control systems.

Your responsibilities include:

• Architectural leadership
  You are responsible for maturing and evolving our architectural framework and solution approach for securing industrial automation and control systems.

• Solution design in digital transformation programs
  You contribute to client digitalization initiatives (e.g. smart manufacturing, connected and autonomous systems) by designing intelligent, future‑proof security solutions.

• Complex OT security transformations
  Within large-scale transformation programs and converging IT/OT environments, you design and advise on solutions such as:

  • Secure zones, conduits, assets, and endpoints

  • Secure remote maintenance and access control

  • Secure cloud, IIoT, and hybrid architectures

  • Vulnerability and patch management

  • Threat detection, response, and XDR in OT environments

  • Security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR)

• Service and solution growth
  You actively contribute to the positioning, development, and expansion of managed security services and XDR offerings, supporting sales engagements through strong solution design.

• Thought leadership & advisory
  With your strong technical background and business acumen, you act as a business‑driven and innovative thought leader in Industrial & OT cybersecurity, advising clients at both technical and executive levels.

What We Are Looking For

• Experience & education

  • Professional training or certifications in vendor technologies related to IACS and/or cybersecurity

  • Minimum 10 years of experience in process automation, industrial systems, and/or cybersecurity

  • A technical degree or equivalent practical experience is strongly preferred

• OT cybersecurity expertise

  • Broad knowledge of Industrial & OT cybersecurity domains, including:

    • Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC)

    • Cloud and IIoT security

    • Network security and segmentation

    • Vulnerability and patch management

    • Threat detection and response

  • Familiarity with relevant industry frameworks, standards, and regulations

• Solution design capability

  • Proven experience designing risk‑based OT cybersecurity solutions, including:

    • IIoT and cloud-connected environments

    • Secure maintenance and remote access

    • Network segmentation, zones, and conduits

    • XDR solutions in OT environments

• Consultative and commercial skills

  • Strong consultative selling skills with the ability to translate technical solutions into clear business value

  • Demonstrated experience supporting sales engagements through solution design and customer advisory

• Leadership & collaboration

  • Cross‑functional team player with strong analytical and problem‑solving skills

  • Ability to coach and guide others in a matrix organization

  • Willingness to travel as required

• Language requirements

  • Fluent in English

  • Dutch language skills are highly preferred

  • Dutch‑speaking candidates will be given priority

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.

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