Job description
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.
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:
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
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:
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.
USA Employment Benefits include:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid company holidays
- Paid time off
- Paid parental and caregiver leave
- Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details.
The compensation range indicated in this posting reflects the On-Target Earnings (“OTE”) for this role, which includes a base salary and any applicable target bonus amount. This OTE range may vary based on the candidate’s relevant experience, qualifications, and geographic location.
