Security Delivery Manager

About the Role

Accenture Saudi Arabia is seeking a Security Delivery Manager to join its team in Riyadh. This full-time role focuses on strengthening clients' cyber defense capabilities by leading the delivery of SIEM logging and security monitoring enablement within complex enterprise environments. The manager will combine strong technical knowledge of SIEM and log management with delivery leadership to ensure security-relevant data is onboarded, normalized, and validated for effective threat detection and monitoring.

Key Responsibilities

The Security Delivery Manager will be responsible for leading SIEM and logging delivery, providing technical and delivery leadership, and managing service governance.

• Lead end-to-end delivery of log-source assessment, onboarding, and validation into enterprise SIEM platforms, with a preference for Splunk.
• Define and govern logging requirements aligned with security monitoring, detection, and investigation use cases.
• Oversee log onboarding activities including source identification, ingestion, parsing, field extraction, normalization, and validation.
• Assess log sources for quality, completeness, consistency, and security value, identifying gaps and recommending remediation.
• Ensure required security events and fields are accurately captured and made available to monitoring and detection teams.

Technical and Delivery Leadership

• Provide technical direction and troubleshooting support for complex log ingestion, parsing, mapping, and data-quality issues.
• Apply knowledge of common logging formats and protocols, including syslog, JSON, Windows Event Logs, and application logs.
• Drive consistent approaches to data normalization and standardization across diverse technology environments.
• Understand how telemetry supports detection engineering and collaborate with detection teams to ensure logs meet defined use-case requirements.
• Coordinate dependencies across application, infrastructure, platform, and cybersecurity teams to enable required logging.
• Lead delivery through batch-based, wave-based, or phased onboarding approaches, balancing delivery priorities, dependencies, and technical readiness.

Service Management and Governance

• Own delivery planning, progress tracking, risks, issues, dependencies, and stakeholder reporting for assigned logging initiatives.
• Establish clear quality criteria and ensure onboarding outputs meet agreed technical and operational requirements.
• Produce high-quality assessments, onboarding documentation, status reporting, and management-level updates.
• Facilitate working sessions with technical teams and stakeholders to resolve blockers and maintain delivery momentum.
• Identify opportunities to improve onboarding processes, logging standards, operational efficiency, and monitoring coverage.
• Act as a trusted point of coordination between cybersecurity teams and technology stakeholders.

Work Environment

This role involves working closely with security, application, infrastructure, and engineering teams to translate detection and monitoring requirements into actionable logging requirements. The position is based in Riyadh and is a full-time engagement.