- Full time, permanent role
- Enjoy excellent career progression in a ‘hands-on’ leadership role
- Work with Partners who are truly invested in your professional development
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In Australia, we’re proud to support the careers of over 1,500 remarkable people. With six offices nationally and partner firms in more than 145 markets, wherever you want to go, we can take you there.
We are seeking a forward ‑ thinking Director to join our Cyber Resilience practice at a pivotal moment in the firm’s growth. This role blends deep cybersecurity expertise with the emerging frontier of AI ‑ enabled professional services delivery. You will help clients solve complex security challenges while redefining how modern advisory work is delivered.
You will win and lead client engagements across cyber resilience services, shaping how AI ‑ enabled delivery is applied across the practice. Rather than being expected to build every solution personally, you will set direction, identify high ‑ value use cases, guide technical teams, and help translate emerging technologies into scalable, repeatable advisory services.
Executive bridging and technology fluency : Provide outcome ‑ focused recommendations that connect executive stakeholders with technical delivery teams, ensuring technology decisions are commercially relevant, risk ‑ informed , and practical to implement.
Internal innovation : Define the roadmap for AI ‑ enabled delivery across cyber resilience offerings, including where agentic workflows, automation, and knowledge assets can improve quality, consistency, and efficiency.
AI integration : Identify and shape opportunities to apply AI technologies, including agentic AI, knowledge engineering, retrieval and RAG, intelligent automation, and advanced analytics, to enhance cyber resilience offerings, operational efficiency, and client outcomes. Work with technical specialists to design and implement secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions.
Automation and delivery enablement : Sponsor and guide the use of automation to streamline delivery, clarify requirements for technical teams, and ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned to client outcomes.
Domain breadth: Strong understanding of how identity & access management, cloud security, endpoint protection, network security, threat intelligence, and vulnerability management capabilities contribute to cyber resilience outcomes.
Frameworks: Familiarity with NIST CSF, ISO 27001/27002, CIS Controls, MITRE ATT&CK, and sector ‑ specific guidance.
Security operations capability: Strong appreciation of how SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, threat intelligence, case management, and response tooling can be applied to improve detection, response, governance, and operational maturity.
Regulation: Understanding of regulatory landscapes such as GDPR, NIS2, DORA, PCI ‑ DSS, or equivalents.
AI & automation strategy: Ability to identify where AI, automation, and agentic workflows can create value in cyber advisory delivery, including assessing suitability, risks, controls, operating impacts, and implementation pathways.
LLM and RAG literacy: Practical understanding of LLM capabilities, limitations, orchestration concepts, document ingestion, vector stores, grounding, and RAG patterns, with the ability to guide design choices and challenge technical approaches.
Platform understanding: Familiarity with enterprise security, identity, endpoint, cloud, data protection, workflow automation, and modern cloud data platforms, including how these capabilities can be used to support cyber resilience and AI ‑ enabled delivery.
Technology leadership: Sufficient technical depth to shape solution requirements, review technical options, oversee implementation teams, and make informed trade ‑ offs , without needing to be the primary hands ‑ on developer or engineer.
Consulting & leadership: Strong communication skills, proven client management, business development capability, and experience mentoring and directing junior technical and advisory team members.
If you’re interested in this role but don’t feel that you match every single one of our requirements, we would still love to hear from you and explore the unique skillset and attributes that you can bring to the team.
At Grant Thornton we do things differently because we understand that when you strive for better and care about what you do remarkable things are possible. We’re a dynamic and authentic mix of backgrounds, perspectives and ways of thinking. We’re driven by our shared purpose – we ignite the potential within our people and clients to create enduring success and positively shape the communities around us.
With us, you’ll be exposed to challenging and rewarding opportunities – building your confidence and capabilities at every step. You’ll be supported, motivated and inspired by a team of passionate and caring collaborators and leaders. You’ll be empowered to build a career path that’s tailored to you and e ncouraged to make a meaningful difference. And we’ll make sure the excellence you deliver and the impact you make is always seen, felt and celebrated.
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