Security Principal Consultant

Phoenix, AZ, 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.

AtAHEAD, 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,anddo not discriminatebased onan individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, maritalstatus,or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.

We embraceall candidatesthatwillcontribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas andperspectives atAHEAD.

Principal Consultants are seasoned 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 activities.

Principal Consultants 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 onsite or remotely by guiding engagements toward scoped objectives and troubleshooting to effectively resolve project risks or issues. Principal 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 Consultants 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. Principal Consultants 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 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. Principal Consultants require approval from management prior to making any significant change to a given service offering or capability.

Responsibilities Client Delivery

Facilitate sessions of strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops for large or complex cross-practice 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

Scope engagements and create proposal packages

Lead client discovery and/or visioning workshops to identify opportunities for cross-practice collaboration

Practice Development & Thought Leadership Maintain subject matter expertise in a minimum of twelve security domains or control areas with technical solution experience in up to three security technology 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

Previously worked in a leadership or program director role

Minimum of10 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 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

$220,000 - $250,000 a year The target OTE for this role is $220k - $250K. 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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