Detection Tower Lead

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Who we are:

Accenture in the Philippines is a pioneer in Accenture’s global delivery network. Over the past 30 years, we have expanded our capabilities to become a powerhouse company providing end-to-end technology and business services. As part of Accenture’s global footprint in over 120 countries, covering 40-plus industries, we have been working with the biggest companies in the country and around the globe.

Innovation, a constant at Accenture, enables us to find new ways to stay ahead of our clients’ challenges. Our inclusive, diverse, and strong culture of equality helps us constantly drive innovation in the workplace. By combining our industry expertise and the deep skills of our people with the latest technologies and our uncompromising high-performance standards, we help organizations grow their business and succeed in the digital age.

What’s in it for you?

At Accenture you will work on meaningful and innovative projects, powered by the latest technologies. You’ll be immersed in industry best practices such as event-driven architectures and domain-driven designs. Accenture will continually invest in your learning and growth. Youll work with Accenture’s certified practitioners, and Accenture will support you in growing your own tech stack and certifications.

The Detection Tower Lead is responsible for defining, governing, and advancing the organization’s security detection capability across multiple platforms and environments. This role provides strategic oversight and hands‑on leadership for detection engineering, ensuring high‑fidelity, risk‑based detections aligned with adversary behaviors and business priorities.

As the functional lead for the Detection Tower, the role drives detection strategy, quality assurance, automation, and continuous improvement while mentoring a team of detection engineers and analysts.

Key Responsibilities

Detection Strategy & Governance

Define, implement, and continuously evolve the Detection Tower strategy and multi‑year roadmap.

Establish and enforce governance standards for detection design, documentation, lifecycle management and version control.

Ensure detections align with MITRE ATT&CK, threat‑informed defense principles and industry best practices.

Maintain visibility into detection coverage, maturity and risk‑based prioritization across threat scenarios.

Provide input to security leadership on detection posture, gaps, and investment priorities.

Detection Engineering & Optimization

Lead the design, development, tuning and validation of detection rules across SIEM and detection platforms.

Ensure detection logic is high quality resilient and optimized for strong signal‑to‑noise ratios with minimal false positives.

Translate threat intelligence, attacker techniques and incident learnings into actionable, scalable detections.

Oversee periodic detection testing, validation exercises and rule effectiveness reviews.

Ensure detection content remains relevant as attacker techniques, environments and telemetry evolve.

Quality Assurance & Continuous Improvement

Maintain a centralized, structured inventory of detection use cases, supporting documentation and version history.

Conduct routine quality reviews, gap assessments, and performance evaluations of detection content.

Drive automation and process improvements across detection development, testing and deployment pipelines.

Define, track, and report metrics related to detection performance, coverage, false positive rates and operational value.

Incorporate feedback from SOC operations and platform teams to continuously improve detection outcomes.

Team Leadership & Development

Provide mentorship, technical guidance, and performance coaching to detection engineers and analysts.

Establish clear expectations, standards, and accountability for detection development and maintenance activities.

Develop dashboards and reporting to monitor team productivity, workload distribution and ticket throughput.

Lead Daily Stand‑Ups (DSUs), regular check‑ins and team communication forums to drive alignment and execution.

Ensure team workflows, documentation, and processes adhere to defined standards and are consistently applied.

Train and upskill team members to create and maintain detections across multiple platforms (e.g., Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Google SecOps).

Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration and continuous technical learning.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

Partner with Threat Intelligence teams to convert emerging threats and TTPs into prioritized detection content.

Collaborate with SOC, incident response and project teams to ensure detections are actionable and operationally integrated.

Engage with platform and engineering teams to address telemetry gaps, data quality issues and tooling dependencies.

Act as the primary point of contact for detection‑related discussions with internal stakeholders and delivery partners.

Project & Operational Management

Lead detection migration initiatives, platform onboarding efforts and detection modernization programs.

Support audit requests, compliance reporting and leadership briefings related to detection posture and team performance.

Maintain detection dashboards, repositories and operational documentation for efficiency and transparency.

Prioritize detection workstreams based on threat risk, business impact, technical complexity and resource capacity.

Ensure delivery commitments are met while maintaining detection quality and operational stability.

Experience:

At least 5 years of relevant experience

Additional Information:

This position is based at our Cubao office, with possible shifting schedule and hybrid work set up

What we believe:

All our leaders are committed to building a better, stronger and more durable company for future generations to create positive, long-lasting change. Inclusion and diversity are fundamental to our culture and core values. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative and creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.

Our position as partner to many of the world’s leading businesses, organizations and governments affords us both an extraordinary opportunity and a tremendous responsibility to make a difference. Sustainability is one of our greatest responsibilities, which we embed it into everything we do and for everyone we work with.

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What’s in it for you?

Competitive Total Rewards (Compensation, Performance Bonus, 13th Month Pay, Day 1 HMO & Life Insurance Coverage)

Expanded maternity leave up to 120 days*

Expanded paternity leave up to 30 days*

Flexible Working Arrangements*

Healthy and Encouraging Work Environment

Company-sponsored trainings like upskilling and certification

Employee Stock Purchase Pan

Loyalty and Christmas Gift

Inclusion and Diversity Benefits

Car and housing plan*

Terms & Conditions apply

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