Principal Technical Consultant - Security
- Ahead
- 10 - 15 years
- Kolkata
- 6 months ago
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Job Description
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We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.
Principal Technical Consultant are seasoned experts in information security and information security related technologies. Successful candidates support the Security team in Delivery, Business Development, and Practice Development.
Principal Technical Consultant collaborate with a diverse team of consultants with varying skills to meet and exceed client expectations through scoped engagements. They effectively facilitate and lead client engagements remotely by guiding engagements toward scoped objectives and troubleshooting to effectively resolve project risks or issues. Principal Technical Consultants effectively lead client delivery engagements by executing the necessary project tasks, producing expected collateral, and presenting artifacts at any time throughout an engagement, while acting in a leadership capacity to the project team(s).
Principal Technical Consultant also support business development activities alongside a sales specialist to qualify client needs and expectations or 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, leading client-visioning, or discovery sessions. Principle Technical Consultant may also collaborate with other AHEAD Practice areas to identify complex, cross-practice solution sets to achieve a client s desired state or outcome.
Lastly, AHEAD Principal Technical Consultant 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.
Key Responsibilities
- The following are the expectations of a Principal Technical Consultant:
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- Client Delivery
- Support sessions of strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops for small to medium sized service engagements
- Execute on project 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
- Creation and finalization of project deliverables, may perform peer review for collateral developed by others on a delivery team
- Effective presentation of deliverables to project team members.
- Knowledge of AHEAD s project lifecycle management activities to effectively support delivery engagements throughout the duration of a project
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- Technical Mastery
- Proficiency in technical troubleshooting; the ability to critically think about a problem and generate a creative solution with minimal oversight.
- Deep knowledge of scripting, particularly with PowerShell and/or Python, and the ability to troubleshoot developed code.
- Ability to effectively communicate aspects of a technical solution to a non-technical individual.
- Capability to conduct research and utilize available resources to fill in technical knowledge gaps where ambiguity presents itself.
- Business Development
- 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
- Lead client discovery and/or visioning workshops to identify opportunities for cross-practice collaboration
- Practice Development & Thought Leadership
- 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
Skills Required
- Proficient in working technically with Identity Providers (IdPs), specifically Active Directory / Entra ID / IAM
- Working knowledge of identity lifecycle management processes and challenges
- Expertise in understanding Enterprise Architecture and the impact security decisioning will have on client environments
- Experience running and managing project outcomes, timelines, and budgets
- Ability to lead a team of individuals and provide mentorship where necessary
- Hands-on experience with the major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP)
- Broad familiarity with governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) as well as industry standard compliance frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-53, NIST CSF, ISO 27001/2, etc.)
- Hands-on experience with cybersecurity tools that function in the following spaces: PAM / PIM / IAM, DLP, SOAR (XSIAM), Microsoft Security, AWS Security, Red Teaming / AppSec, Isolated Recovery Environments (IREs)
Qualifications
- Previously worked in a leadership or program director role
- Minimum of:
- 10 years consulting experience, or commensurate work experience
- 3 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 settings
- 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:
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- 401(k)
- Paid company holidays
- Paid time off
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Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & ConsultingFunctional Area / Department: ConsultingRole Category: IT ConsultingRole: IT Consulting - OtherEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: AheadLocation(s): Kolkata+ View Contact
Keyskills: Automation Enterprise architecture Information security Consulting ISO 27001 Active directory microsoft Troubleshooting Analytics Python
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