Senior Security Technical Consultant

Sacramento, CA, United States

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. 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 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

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 and/or technical certifications, including industry-recognized certifications which align to AHEAD's Security service portfolio

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Comfortable addressing groups of people in virtual or in-person 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

The target OTE for this role is $170k - $190K 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 top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning. We understand that you have a life outside of work. That's why we offer paid time off, paid company holidays, and a great benefits program including maternity/paternity leave and much more! Please note that although some job posting are indicated as remote, it is solely for the purpose of the posting. It is company policy for employees within thirty miles of an office to be in-office at least 2 days per week.

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