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Our Deloitte Cyber team understands the unique challenges and opportunities businesses face in cybersecurity. Join our team to deliver powerful solutions to help our clients navigate the ever-changing threat landscape. Through powerful solutions and managed services that simplify complexity, we enable our clients to operate with resilience, grow with confidence, and proactively manage to secure success.
As a Senior Consultant, Strategy, Growth & Transformation in Deloitte Cyber's Cyber for AI practice, you will own and deliver work that helps clients understand and mitigate/monitor the risks of adopting AI across the enterprise and define the cybersecurity controls, governance, policy and risk management approaches needed to deploy AI securely and safely. You will combine client advisory with structured cyber risk and governance work, turning business and regulatory requirements into frameworks, roadmaps and recommendations, and you will work closely with the practice's Data, Infrastructure, Identity, Security Operations and Application Security teams to make sure strategy translates into implementable requirements. You will guide junior practitioners, lead project activities and client interactions and help identify, win and deliver new work.
Recruiting for this role ends on 05/31/2027.
Work you'll do
As a Senior Consultant, Strategy, Growth & Transformation on the Cyber Strategy & Transformation team, you will be responsible for:
- Lead discovery and current-state assessments of client AI cybersecurity controls governance, risk management and security practices across business units and AI use cases.
- Facilitate stakeholder workshops with security, risk, data science, legal and business leaders to surface AI risk concerns and gather requirements.
- Develop AI risk registers, control frameworks and maturity assessments aligned to standards such as the NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, the OWASP LLM Top 10 and MITRE ATLAS.
- Translate strategic recommendations into workstream-level roadmaps, coordinating with Data, Infrastructure, Identity and Application Security practitioners on technical implementation details.
- Draft governance artifacts, including AI use-case intake processes, policy templates, model risk tiering approaches and AI security awareness materials.
- Own a workstream within a broader engagement, manage dependencies and milestones, provide day-to-day guidance to consultants, and support client demonstrations, executive readouts, and research, benchmarking, and estimation inputs to pursuits.
A successful candidate would possess these skills:
- Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
- Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
- Ability to lead projects or workstreams
- Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
- Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Ability to provide clear guidance to others
The team
Our Cyber Strategy & Transformation offering develops and transforms cyber programs in line with a client's strategic objectives, regulatory requirements, and risk appetite. It keeps the enterprise a step ahead of the evolving threat landscape and gives stakeholders confidence in the organization's cyber posture. Includes design of the cyber organization, governance, and risk assessments.
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or Risk Management
- 4+ years of experience in cybersecurity, risk, or technology consulting, including experience with artificial intelligence or machine learning systems, data governance, or emerging technology risk.
- Experience working with artificial intelligence and machine learning concepts, including model development, training, fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic architectures.
- Experience applying artificial intelligence risk and security frameworks or regulations, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (NIST AI RMF), International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission 42001 (ISO/IEC 42001), Open Worldwide Application Security Project Large Language Model Top 10 (OWASP LLM Top 10), MITRE Adversarial Threat Landscape for Artificial-Intelligence Systems (MITRE ATLAS), or the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act.
- Experience conducting risk assessments, gap analyses, or maturity assessments in cybersecurity, privacy, or governance and developing strategy documents, governance frameworks, and executive presentation materials.
- Ability to travel 25-50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
- Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.
Preferred:
- Experience in consulting, client delivery, or client-facing advisory roles and experience building or customizing prompts, templates, or lightweight artificial intelligence workflows to standardize recurring deliverables, including risk registers, maturity assessments, or policy drafts.
- Experience with artificial intelligence governance platforms, governance, risk, and compliance tools, or model risk management systems.
- Experience with the machine learning lifecycle and technologies such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or MLflow.
- Experience developing reusable strategy assets, reviewing work products of junior consultants, or contributing to methodologies and frameworks.
- Experience in regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, life sciences, or the public sector.
- Certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer (CDPSE), Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional (AIGP), or ISO/IEC 42001 Foundation or Lead Implementer.
The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $105,400 to $207,800.
You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.
AI Security Senior Consultant
Our Deloitte Cyber team understands the unique challenges and opportunities businesses face in cybersecurity. Join our team to deliver powerful solutions to help our clients navigate the ever-changing threat landscape. Through powerful solutions and managed services that simplify complexity, we enable our clients to operate with resilience, grow with confidence, and proactively manage to secure success.
As a Senior Consultant, Strategy, Growth & Transformation in Deloitte Cyber's Cyber for AI practice, you will own and deliver work that helps clients understand and mitigate/monitor the risks of adopting AI across the enterprise and define the cybersecurity controls, governance, policy and risk management approaches needed to deploy AI securely and safely. You will combine client advisory with structured cyber risk and governance work, turning business and regulatory requirements into frameworks, roadmaps and recommendations, and you will work closely with the practice's Data, Infrastructure, Identity, Security Operations and Application Security teams to make sure strategy translates into implementable requirements. You will guide junior practitioners, lead project activities and client interactions and help identify, win and deliver new work.
Recruiting for this role ends on 05/31/2027.
Work you'll do
As a Senior Consultant, Strategy, Growth & Transformation on the Cyber Strategy & Transformation team, you will be responsible for:
- Lead discovery and current-state assessments of client AI cybersecurity controls governance, risk management and security practices across business units and AI use cases.
- Facilitate stakeholder workshops with security, risk, data science, legal and business leaders to surface AI risk concerns and gather requirements.
- Develop AI risk registers, control frameworks and maturity assessments aligned to standards such as the NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, the OWASP LLM Top 10 and MITRE ATLAS.
- Translate strategic recommendations into workstream-level roadmaps, coordinating with Data, Infrastructure, Identity and Application Security practitioners on technical implementation details.
- Draft governance artifacts, including AI use-case intake processes, policy templates, model risk tiering approaches and AI security awareness materials.
- Own a workstream within a broader engagement, manage dependencies and milestones, provide day-to-day guidance to consultants, and support client demonstrations, executive readouts, and research, benchmarking, and estimation inputs to pursuits.
A successful candidate would possess these skills:
- Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
- Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
- Ability to lead projects or workstreams
- Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
- Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Ability to provide clear guidance to others
The team
Our Cyber Strategy & Transformation offering develops and transforms cyber programs in line with a client's strategic objectives, regulatory requirements, and risk appetite. It keeps the enterprise a step ahead of the evolving threat landscape and gives stakeholders confidence in the organization's cyber posture. Includes design of the cyber organization, governance, and risk assessments.
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or Risk Management
- 4+ years of experience in cybersecurity, risk, or technology consulting, including experience with artificial intelligence or machine learning systems, data governance, or emerging technology risk.
- Experience working with artificial intelligence and machine learning concepts, including model development, training, fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic architectures.
- Experience applying artificial intelligence risk and security frameworks or regulations, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (NIST AI RMF), International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission 42001 (ISO/IEC 42001), Open Worldwide Application Security Project Large Language Model Top 10 (OWASP LLM Top 10), MITRE Adversarial Threat Landscape for Artificial-Intelligence Systems (MITRE ATLAS), or the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act.
- Experience conducting risk assessments, gap analyses, or maturity assessments in cybersecurity, privacy, or governance and developing strategy documents, governance frameworks, and executive presentation materials.
- Ability to travel 25-50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
- Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.
Preferred:
- Experience in consulting, client delivery, or client-facing advisory roles and experience building or customizing prompts, templates, or lightweight artificial intelligence workflows to standardize recurring deliverables, including risk registers, maturity assessments, or policy drafts.
- Experience with artificial intelligence governance platforms, governance, risk, and compliance tools, or model risk management systems.
- Experience with the machine learning lifecycle and technologies such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or MLflow.
- Experience developing reusable strategy assets, reviewing work products of junior consultants, or contributing to methodologies and frameworks.
- Experience in regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, life sciences, or the public sector.
- Certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer (CDPSE), Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional (AIGP), or ISO/IEC 42001 Foundation or Lead Implementer.
The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $105,400 to $207,800.
You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Security Consultant
Map your degree to the role
USCIS scrutinizes whether your degree field directly relates to security consulting. A computer science or cybersecurity degree strengthens your case. If your degree is in a tangential field, document how your coursework maps to the specialty occupation definition.
Check employer LCA history before applying
Use Migrate Mate to filter Security Consultant roles by verified DOL LCA filing history, so you're applying to employers who have already navigated the H-1B process for this occupation, not ones encountering it for the first time.
Verify the prevailing wage tier your role falls under
Security Consultant positions span wage levels 1 through 4 depending on experience and supervisory duties. Run the OFLC Wage Search before negotiating your offer to confirm your salary meets the certified LCA wage, which USCIS checks against the I-129.
Target cap-exempt employers for immediate sponsorship
Consulting firms contracted to universities or nonprofit research institutions can file H-1B petitions year-round outside the annual cap. If you can't wait for the April lottery, prioritize security roles at these organizations during your job search.
Clarify whether clearance affects your petition timeline
Many Security Consultant roles require a government clearance that takes months to adjudicate. Confirm with your employer whether the H-1B petition will be filed before or after the clearance process, since clearance delays can affect your start date and cap-gap status.
Use O*NET to build your specialty occupation documentation
The O*NET occupation profile for Security Consultants lists the knowledge domains and typical education requirements USCIS evaluates. Reference these when drafting your support letter to align your qualifications with the regulatory specialty occupation standard.
H-1B Visa Security Consultant: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Security Consultant role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, Security Consultant positions typically qualify because they require theoretical and practical application of highly specialized knowledge in cybersecurity, risk management, or information assurance, and a minimum of a bachelor's degree in a directly related field. USCIS evaluates the job description and the employer's actual requirements, so the offer letter must specify the degree field, not just a general preference.
Which types of employers sponsor H-1B visas for Security Consultants?
Federal contractors, management consulting firms, financial institutions, and large technology companies are among the most active H-1B sponsors for Security Consultant roles. Consulting firms with government contracts are especially common because the work itself demands credentialed specialists. You can browse Security Consultant roles by sponsorship history on Migrate Mate to identify which employers have filed LCAs for this occupation.
How does a government security clearance interact with the H-1B petition process?
The H-1B petition and the clearance process run on separate tracks. USCIS approves the petition based on your qualifications and the job requirements, not your clearance status. However, some employers wait until clearance eligibility is confirmed before filing, which can affect when your petition is submitted relative to the cap registration window. Clarify this timeline with your employer before accepting an offer.
Can I switch from one security consulting employer to another on H-1B?
Yes. H-1B portability under AC21 allows you to change employers once your petition has been pending for 180 days or more, provided the new role is in the same or a substantially similar specialty occupation. For Security Consultants, moving between firms doing similar advisory or assessment work generally qualifies. Your new employer files an H-1B transfer petition, and you can start working upon receipt.
What documentation should I prepare to support my H-1B petition as a Security Consultant?
You'll need academic transcripts and your degree certificate, a detailed offer letter specifying the degree requirement for the role, and professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or CEH if your employer lists them as requirements. If your degree field isn't an exact match for the role, a credentials evaluation and a letter from your employer explaining the educational requirement helps address potential USCIS requests for evidence.