Minimum of 7 years of consulting experience or equivalent work experience., At least 2 professional or technical certifications related to security., Strong communication skills, both verbal and written., Experience in leading security or compliance projects and supporting business development..
Key responsibilities:
Lead and manage client security engagement projects, ensuring successful delivery.
Support business development activities through client meetings and proposal presentations.
Contribute to the development and enhancement of security service offerings.
Provide mentorship and thought leadership within the security practice.
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AHEAD builds and manages digital platforms that power the most successful organizations in the world. Our consultative approach, unmatched engineering, and innovative solutions combine to accelerate the impact of technology in every client we serve.
AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.
At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individuals race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.
We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.
Sr. Technical Consultants are experienced experts in information security andor information security governance or compliance. Successful candidates support the Security and Compliance Practice in Delivery, Business Development, and Practice Development.
Sr. Technical Consultants collaborate with a diverse team of consultants with varying skills to meet and exceed client expectations through scoped engagements. They effectively support client engagements onsite or remotely by guiding engagements toward scoped objectives and troubleshooting to effectively resolve project risks or issues. Sr. Technical Consultants contribute to engagements by executing the necessary project tasks, producing expected collateral, and presenting artifacts at any time throughout an engagement.
Sr. Technical Consultants can also support business development activities alongside a sales specialist to help qualify client needs and expectations, or more specifically to demonstrate a capability or skillset. They may be directly engaged in clientfacing interactions to identify client needs and to produce andor present sales proposals.
Lastly, AHEAD Sr. Technical Consultants also leverage their visibility and experience to contribute to the continuous improvement and maturation of inpractice service offerings and capabilities by proposing ideas for change and executing on ideas that are committed. This includes positively impacting our service portfolio and individuals on the team through thought leadership and mentorship.
Responsibilities
Client Delivery
Facilitate sessions of strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops for medium to large service engagements
Ensure that customer expectations are appropriately set and managed
Lead project engagement teams through the delivery of consulting service offerings
Drive and manage the objectives, requirements gathering, project tasksmilestone, project status, dependencies, and timelines, to ensure engagements are delivered successfully and on time while meeting the business objectives
Breaks down risks or issues into manageable segments, identifies the factors that affect a problem and determine how best to approach
Creation and finalization of project deliverables, may perform peer review for collateral developed by others on a delivery team
Presentation of deliverables to client executive management
Knowledge of AHEAD’s project lifecycle management activities to effectively support delivery engagements throughout the duration of a project
Act as the Engagement Lead on customer facing projects, when assigned
Business Development
Support business development pursuits through client discovery meetings
Represent service offerings during the sales cycle, including project scoping, proposal development, and presenting proposals to clients
Knowledge of AHEAD’s sales management lifecycle to effectively support sales opportunities throughout the duration of a proposal
Assist Principal Consultants with engagement scoping and the creation of proposal collateral
Familiarity with AHEAD’s enterprise service portfolio to identify opportunities for crosspractice collaboration
Practice Development & Thought Leadership
Maintain subject matter expertise in a minimum of eight security domains or three security solutions
Participate in the development, enhancement, and standardization of AHEAD inpractice service offerings
Owns andor enables more than one service capability
Processfocused technology thought leader and evangelist
Maintain a broad knowledge and understanding of current and future state IT trends, technologies, and standards
Lend support and mentorship to others
Requirements
Undergraduate degree in Computer Sciences or Business Management preferred, but not required Minimum of 3 years of leadership experience
7+ years consulting experience, or commensurate work experience
2 professional andor technical certifications, including industryrecognized certifications which align to AHEAD’s Security service portfolio
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Comfortable addressing groups of people in virtual or inperson settings
Demonstrated Business Acumen
Ability to solve complex, abstract problems
Excellent interpersonal skills, good listener, ability to connect with different personalities
Exhibit Executive presence with leadership characteristics
Demonstrated experience as a technology change agent
Why AHEAD:
Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.
We fuel growth by stacking our office with topnotch technologies in a multimilliondollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.