Technical Consultant

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.*** Technical Consultants are experienced 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. Technical Consultants collaborate with a diverse team of consultants with varying skills to meet and exceed client expectations through scoped engagements. They effectively lead or support small to medium sized client engagements onsite or remotely by guiding engagements toward scoped objectives. Technical Consultants contribute to client delivery by executing the necessary technical or process-focused tasks, producing expected collateral, and presenting artifacts at any time throughout an engagement. Technical Consultants may be assigned a Project Coordinator role to ensure delivery engagements adhere to the associated timeline and to support project reporting requirements. Technical Consultants can also support business development activities alongside a sales specialist to help qualify client needs and expectations, or more specifically to 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 or support client-visioning workshops. Lastly, AHEAD Technical 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. ### Responsibilities - Client Delivery - Facilitate sessions of strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops for small to medium sized service engagements - Ensure that customer expectations are appropriately set and managed - 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 - 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 - 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 - Assist Principal Consultants and Security Sales Specialists with engagement scoping and the creation of proposal collateral - Practice Development & Thought Leadership - Maintain subject matter expertise in a minimum of four security domains or three security solutions - Participate in the development, enhancement, and standardization of AHEAD in-practice service offerings - Enables more than one service capability - Maintain a broad knowledge and understanding of current and future state IT trends, technologies, and standards - Lend support and mentorship to Associates Responsibilities: - Cloud Security Architecture & Risk Strategy: - Proven experience in reviewing and implementing secure cloud reference architectures and landing zones. - Ability to translate risk strategy by mapping traditional lift-and-shift approaches into cloud-native security controls. - Strong understanding of multi-cloud governance models, including Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), policy-as-code (PaC), tagging standards, and multi-account strategies. - CNAPP Tooling: - 2+ years of combined hands-on experience with CNAPP tools, particularly Wiz and Prisma Cloud. - Expertise in integrating Wiz and Prisma Cloud with enterprise tooling such as ServiceNow, CI/CD pipelines, and ticketing/alerting workflows. - Able to clearly and concisely communicate Wiz/Prisma outputs (criticality, risk, remediation) to technical and business stakeholders. - Strong track record in deploying and instantiating Prisma Cloud.