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 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.
• Break down risks or issues into manageable segments, identify 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.
• Own and/or enable 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.