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Security Consultant jobs on OPT are available across cybersecurity, risk management, and compliance. Most roles qualify as specialty occupations under STEM OPT, giving you a 24-month STEM extension if your degree is in computer science, information security, or a related field. Employers range from consulting firms to financial institutions and federal contractors.
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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 OPT Sponsorship as a Security Consultant
Confirm your degree qualifies for STEM OPT
Security Consultant roles typically require a degree in computer science, information systems, or cybersecurity. If your degree is on the STEM OPT designated list, you're eligible for a 24-month extension, giving employers significantly more time to sponsor your H-1B visa.
Target consulting firms with established OPT pipelines
Large consulting firms like Deloitte, Accenture, and Booz Allen Hamilton regularly hire international graduates and have structured OPT and H-1B sponsorship processes. Smaller boutique firms often lack the legal infrastructure to sponsor visas at all.
Obtain relevant certifications before applying
Security+ , CISSP, or CEH certifications signal credibility in a field where credentials carry real weight. These also reinforce that your role qualifies as a specialty occupation, which matters if your employer later files an H-1B on your behalf.
Address federal contractor clearance requirements early
Many Security Consultant roles at government contractors require a security clearance. F-1 OPT students are generally not eligible for clearances, so prioritize private-sector or commercial clients where clearance isn't a hard requirement during your OPT period.
File your STEM OPT extension at least 90 days before expiration
Submit your STEM OPT extension application well before your current OPT expires. USCIS recommends filing 90 days out. If filed on time, you get a 180-day automatic extension to keep working while the application is pending.
Have a clear answer about your post-OPT visa path
Employers want to know their investment is long-term. Be ready to explain the H-1B timeline, including lottery registration in March, and that STEM OPT gives you up to three cycles to get selected before your authorization runs out.
Security Consultant OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Do Security Consultant jobs qualify as specialty occupations for OPT and H-1B purposes?
Yes, Security Consultant roles typically qualify as specialty occupations because they require at least a bachelor's degree in a specific field, usually computer science, information systems, cybersecurity, or a related discipline. The key is that the job description must require a degree, not just prefer one. Roles focused on risk assessment, penetration testing, or compliance architecture consistently meet this standard.
Can I work as a Security Consultant on OPT if my degree is in a non-STEM field?
Yes, standard 12-month OPT applies regardless of your major as long as your security consultant role is directly related to your field of study. However, without a STEM-designated degree, you won't qualify for the 24-month STEM OPT extension, which limits your window to find H-1B sponsorship to a single lottery cycle.
How do I find Security Consultant employers who sponsor OPT and H-1B visas?
Migrate Mate filters Security Consultant jobs specifically for OPT and visa sponsorship eligibility, so you're not wasting time on roles that won't work for your situation. Historically, major employers of sponsored security consultants include firms like Deloitte, PwC, KPMG, and Booz Allen Hamilton, all of which have active H-1B sponsorship histories visible in DOL disclosure data.
Are there OPT restrictions that affect Security Consultant roles at government contractors?
Yes, this is a real constraint. Many federal and defense contractor Security Consultant positions require a U.S. government security clearance, which F-1 OPT students are generally ineligible to hold. Focus your search on commercial cybersecurity firms, financial institutions, healthcare organizations, and technology companies, where clearance is not a prerequisite for the role.
What happens to my Security Consultant job if I don't get selected in the H-1B lottery?
If you're on STEM OPT, a missed lottery doesn't end your authorization immediately. You have up to three H-1B registration cycles across your STEM extension period, giving you until your authorization expires to be selected. Some employers will also explore cap-exempt H-1B routes or alternative visas like the O-1A if you have demonstrable expertise in your field.