Sr. Manager, Cybersecurity Advisory

Lead complex cybersecurity advisory engagements for Visa clients and help expand the Cybersecurity Advisory practice through risk-focused consulting and evidence-based recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Lead cybersecurity advisory engagements from discovery and scoping through analysis, recommendations, executive presentation, and close.
• Assess client cybersecurity strategies, governance models, architectures, capabilities, controls, and resilience practices across diverse environments.
• Review technical findings, control evidence, architecture artifacts, security metrics, and stakeholder input to identify risks, root causes, and improvement opportunities.
• Convert complex cybersecurity topics into clear business, operational, financial, and customer implications.
• Produce evidence-based recommendations and pragmatic roadmaps that account for risk, business priorities, technical dependencies, implementation feasibility, and client maturity.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders across cybersecurity, risk, fraud, technology, operations, payments, and business teams.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and provide project-based direction, coaching, and quality oversight.
• Maintain accountability for engagement quality, timelines, risks, stakeholder alignment, and outcomes.
• Support business development via consultative discovery, opportunity shaping, proposal development, pricing inputs, and client presentations.
• Help develop advisory offerings, methodologies, tools, and thought leadership.

Requirements

• Experience: 8+ years relevant work experience with a Bachelor degree, or 5+ years with an Advanced Degree (e.g., Masters, MBA, JD, MD), or 2 years with a PhD.
• Experience in cybersecurity consulting, cybersecurity risk management, information security, technology risk, or a related field.
• Experience leading client-facing consulting engagements or complex cybersecurity workstreams.
• Depth in cybersecurity risk management across multiple domains, including: security architecture, cloud or application security, identity and access management, vulnerability management, data protection, incident response, threat intelligence, and/or cyber resilience.
• Experience evaluating cybersecurity environments using stakeholder interviews, architecture and process documentation, control evidence, technical findings, and security metrics.
• Ability to assess security architectures, control designs, technical findings, and remediation plans, and translate gaps into prioritized recommendations.
• Working knowledge of recognized cybersecurity and technology-risk frameworks such as: NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO/IEC 27001, CIS Controls, or COBIT.
• Experience with financial institutions, payments companies, fintech, merchants, or other complex or regulated organizations.
• Strong analytical, project-management, executive communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.
• Ability to lead multidisciplinary contributors and manage differing perspectives effectively in a matrixed organization.
• Experience supporting consultative selling, proposals, opportunity development, or advisory-offering development.
• Preferred: Knowledge of payments, cyber-enabled fraud, and financial-sector risk and resilience expectations.
• Preferred: A relevant certification such as CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CCSP, or comparable.
• Ability to travel based on client and business needs.

Technologies

• NIST Cybersecurity Framework
• ISO/IEC 27001
• CIS Controls
• COBIT
• CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CCSP

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401(k)
• FSA/HSA
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Wellness Program
• Potential sales incentive payments (if applicable)
• Bonus and equity (if eligible)

Location: Ashburn, VA (onsite)

Salary: USD 138,300 - 221,600 per year

Work hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel: 5-10% of the time.

Information for US Applicants

• Estimated salary range: $138,300.00 to $221,600.00 USD per year (may include potential sales incentive payments, if applicable).
• Salary may vary based on job-related factors, including knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
• This position may be eligible for bonus and equity.
• Visa benefits may include Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.

Mental/Physical Requirements

• Office setting
• Sitting and standing at a desk
• In-person and telephone communication
• Frequent use of standard office equipment such as telephones and computers

Education: Bachelor Degree