Senior Technical Consultant - Cloud Security

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 individual's 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 and/or 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. Consultants contribute to engagements by executing the necessary project tasks, producing expected collateral, and presentingartifacts 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 client-facing interactions to identify client needs and to produce and/or present sales proposals.

Lastly, AHEAD Sr. Technical Consultants also leverage their visibility and experience to contribute to the continuous improvement and maturation of in-practice 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 tasks/milestone, 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 cross-practice 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 in-practice service offerings

Owns and/or enables more than one service capability

Process-focused 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

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Cloud Security Architecture & Risk Strategy:

Proven experience in reviewing and implementing secure cloud reference architectures and landing zones.

Ability to translate risk strategy by mapping traditional lift-and-shift approaches into cloud-native security controls.

Strong understanding of multi-cloud governance models including Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), policy-as-code (PaC), tagging standards, and multi-account strategies.