--- title: 'Managing Principal – Cybersecurity Strategy & Transformation at Capco' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/managing-principal-cybersecurity-strategy-transformation-capco-toronto-h2555wpcattz' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-02' --- # Managing Principal – Cybersecurity Strategy & Transformation at Capco - **Company:** Capco - **Location:** Toronto, Canada - **Compensation:** $153k–$197k - **Posted:** 2026-10-30 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-02 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/capco/jobs/8337679 ## Job description Shape the Future of Cybersecurity in Financial Services ## The Role As a Managing Principal within Capco’s Cybersecurity practice, you will play a key leadership role in growing, delivering, and shaping our cybersecurity consulting services across the financial services sector. You will advise senior executives, including CISOs, CROs, and CIOs, on complex cybersecurity challenges, while leading strategic client engagements, developing consulting talent, and building capabilities that respond to evolving market needs. Your work will span cyber risk management, identity and access management, security architecture and engineering, operational resilience, and emerging technologies. Cybersecurity is evolving rapidly. AI, cloud transformation, automation, and changing regulatory expectations are reshaping how financial institutions manage security, risk, and resilience. You will help clients understand these changes, respond to emerging threats, and develop practical strategies that deliver measurable business outcomes. This role combines strategic advisory, consulting delivery, business development, and practice leadership. We welcome candidates with deep expertise in one or more cybersecurity disciplines, a broad understanding of the security lifecycle, and an interest in helping grow a consulting practice. ## What You’ll Do - Client Advisory & Engagement: Advise senior stakeholders on cybersecurity strategy, governance, technology risk, security architecture, and regulatory expectations. Lead complex consulting engagements from opportunity development through delivery and measurable outcomes. - Cybersecurity Practice Leadership: Develop and expand Capco’s capabilities across cyber and technology risk, AI security, identity and access management, security engineering, third-party risk, and operational resilience. Shape new offerings, methodologies, and market perspectives. - Delivery Excellence: Oversee multidisciplinary teams delivering cybersecurity transformation programs, ensuring alignment with client objectives, budgets, timelines, and quality standards. Provide strategic direction while empowering technical specialists and delivery teams. - Business Development & Growth: Build trusted client relationships, identify commercial opportunities, shape proposals, and contribute to executive presentations, partnerships, and go-to-market initiatives that support practice growth. - Talent & Capability Development: Recruit, mentor, and develop consulting talent, strengthen leadership capabilities, and foster an inclusive, collaborative environment that supports continuous learning and high-quality delivery. ## What We’re Looking For - Cybersecurity Expertise: Significant progressive experience in cybersecurity, technology risk, security architecture, engineering, identity, or cybersecurity consulting, ideally within financial services. Depth in at least one specialist area, alongside a broad understanding of cybersecurity strategy and delivery. - Consulting & Executive Advisory: Experience advising senior stakeholders, structuring complex challenges, translating technical risks into business priorities, and delivering practical solutions. Experience in a consulting firm, financial institution, technology provider, or complex enterprise environment is welcome. - Program & Delivery Leadership: Demonstrated experience leading significant cybersecurity programs, managing multidisciplinary teams, overseeing complex engagements, and delivering outcomes across the cybersecurity lifecycle. - Commercial & Practice Development: Experience developing client relationships, contributing to business development, building capabilities, or scaling consulting services. An interest in identifying new opportunities and shaping the future direction of cybersecurity consulting. - Industry, Technology & Regulatory Knowledge: Understanding of financial services cybersecurity, emerging technologies including AI, and relevant frameworks such as NIST CSF, ISO 27001, COBIT, and FFIEC. Effective executive communication, facilitation, and relationship-management skills. Bonus Points For - Recognized certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CISA, CCSP, or relevant cloud, identity, architecture, and vendor certifications. - Experience developing or scaling cybersecurity teams, consulting offerings, client portfolios, or strategic partnerships. - Knowledge of how cybersecurity intersects with AI, cloud, data protection, digital transformation, technology risk, and financial crime. - External thought leadership, industry participation, or established relationships within the financial services and cybersecurity communities. - A collaborative leadership approach, commercial awareness, and an interest in emerging technologies and evolving cybersecurity practices. ## Why Join Capco - Help shape and scale Capco’s growing cybersecurity consulting practice in Canada. - Work with leading financial institutions on complex cybersecurity, technology risk, and resilience challenges. - Contribute to innovative solutions at the intersection of cybersecurity, AI, and financial services transformation. - Build new consulting capabilities, develop talent, and strengthen strategic client relationships. - Be part of a collaborative, entrepreneurial, and inclusive consulting culture, with opportunities for continuous learning, coaching, and leadership development. ## Benefits We offer a competitive, people-first benefits package designed to support every aspect of your life: - Comprehensive Benefits Coverage: Enjoy 100% company-paid health, life, and disability insurance, effective from Day 1 of employment. - Retirement Savings Program: Build your financial future through a Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), with the option of receiving a matching employer contribution. - Virtual Health Care: Access a company-paid virtual health care program available to employees and their dependents/partners. - Employee & Family Assistance Program: Receive company-paid support services for you and your dependents/partners. - Parental Leave Top-Up: Benefit from enhanced parental leave support available from Day 1 of employment. - New Parent Gift: Celebrate the arrival of a new child with a company-sponsored gift. - Wellness Support: Take advantage of fitness reimbursement benefits designed to support your health and well-being. - Business Coach from Day 1: Receive personalized one-on-one coaching to support your career growth, accelerate development, and help achieve your professional goals at Capco. Inclusion at Capco We’re committed to making our recruitment process accessible and straightforward for everyone. If you need any adjustments at any stage, just let us know – we’ll be happy to help. We value each person’s unique perspective and contribution. At Capco, we believe that being yourself is your greatest strength. Our #BeYourselfAtWork culture encourages individuality and collaboration – a mindset that shapes how we work with clients and each other every day. ## Why This Role Is Open We are currently hiring for this role due to an existing or newly created vacancy within our organization. This position is open as part of our ongoing business needs, and we are actively reviewing applications to fill this role with a qualified candidate who can make an immediate impact. Use of Artificial Intelligence in Talent Acquisition At Capco, we use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support and enhance several parts of talent acquisition. This includes using AI-enabled features within LinkedIn to help source potential candidates, speeding up routine recruitment communications such as emails and creating compelling and brand-aligned job postings that accurately reflect role requirements, and AI-scheduling applications to improve the efficiency of interview coordination. AI is used as a support tool only. All hiring decisions are made by talent acquisition and hiring teams. Pay Transparency The salary range for this position is listed below. Additionally, this position may also be eligible to receive an annual discretionary/variable bonus payment. Capco is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation to our people. Our compensation policies and salary ranges are designed to allow our people to progress through the salary range as they demonstrate strong performance and develop in their role over time. The base pay offered to selected candidates will be within the salary range and the placement will vary based upon a variety of factors, including, but not limited to job-related knowledge, skills, experience and internal equity. Canada Pay Transparency $153,000—$197,000 CAD ## About Capco ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Capco is a global management and technology consultancy specializing in the financial services and energy industries, known for its deep industry expertise and entrepreneurial culture. - **Entity Type**: Private (Wholly owned subsidiary of Wipro Limited since 2021) - **Headquarters**: London, England, United Kingdom - **Founded**: 1998 - **Founders**: Rob Heyvaert ## Core Business - **Primary industries**: Financial services (banking, payments, capital markets, wealth & asset management, insurance) and energy - **Target customers**: Large enterprises in highly regulated sectors (B2B/Enterprise) - **Mission/Purpose statement**: “Do something different by combining deep industry expertise, strong consulting fundamentals, real innovation, and a relentless focus on client impact.” [capco.com](https://www.capco.com/about-us) ## Products & Services Capco delivers consulting services rather than standalone products. Major service areas include: - **Banking & Payments**: Digital banking transformation, core modernization, payments advisory. - **Capital Markets**: Technology and data transformation, operational efficiency, regulatory compliance. - **Wealth & Asset Management**: Customer relationship enhancement, operational scalability, control environment strengthening. - **Insurance**: M&A support, technology innovation, profitability improvement. - **Energy**: Commodity trading and risk management, energy transition, utilities transformation. All services are delivered as **management and technology consulting** engagements. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (acquired by Wipro in March 2021 for $1.45 billion) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/capco) - **Key Metric (Private)**: Total headcount of ~5,930 (9.2% YoY growth); 670 active job postings [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/capco) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: **Wipro Limited** (parent company); earlier investor **Thomas Weisel Partners** (led $80M PE round in 2000) - **Growth Signals**: +9.2% headcount growth year-over-year; +30.5% LinkedIn follower growth (530,600 followers); recruitment volume up 10.4% quarterly [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/capco) ## Competitive Advantages - **Deep domain expertise** across financial services and energy – nearly three decades of focused experience. - **Expert-led, AI‑infused** delivery model that embeds technology and AI into every engagement. - **Strong brand and alumni network** (graduates of Capco work at UBS, Accenture, HSBC, etc.) – signals talent development and industry connections. - **Low bureaucracy, entrepreneurial culture** – flat hierarchies encourage ownership and client impact. ## Strategic Focus - Embedding AI and data as core enablers across all consulting work (“AI is not an add‑on – it is a core part of how we shape, build, and deliver value” [capco.com](https://www.capco.com/about-us)). - Continuing to expand in energy consulting alongside core financial services. - Driving measurable outcomes and lasting value for clients while maintaining a people‑first culture. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: “Be Yourself at Work” (#BYAW) is a foundational value promoting inclusion, authenticity, and belonging. Minimal hierarchy and entrepreneurial freedom are emphasized. [capco.com](https://www.capco.com/about-us/our-culture-and-values) - **Learning & Development**: Structured programs from entry‑level Associate Talent Program (ATP) to experienced hire tracks; mentorship and hands‑on client exposure. - **Wellbeing**: Wellbeing@Capco program integrated into culture; benefits designed to support work‑life balance. [capco.com](https://www.capco.com/about-us/our-culture-and-values) - **Remote/Hybrid**: Not explicitly stated, but global offices in 43 countries suggest hybrid presence; role‑dependent. - **Notable perks**: Global mobility opportunities, comprehensive benefits, flat structure allowing early responsibility. ## Sources 1. [capco.com](https://www.capco.com/) – Company overview 2. [capco.com - About Us](https://www.capco.com/about-us) – History, leadership, vision 3. [capco.com - Careers](https://www.capco.com/careers) – Culture, learning, benefits 4. [capco.com - Culture & Values](https://www.capco.com/about-us/our-culture-and-values) – ESG, #BYAW, wellbeing 5. 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