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 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 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 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

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.

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