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Successful candidates support the Security and Compliance Practice in Delivery, Business Development, and Practice Development.\nSr. Technical Consultants collaborate with a diverse team of consultants with varying skills to meet and exceed client expectations through scoped engagements. They effectively support client engagements onsite or remotely by guiding engagements toward scoped objectives and troubleshooting to effectively resolve project risks or issues. Sr. Consultants contribute to engagements by executing the necessary project tasks, producing expected collateral, and presentingartifacts at any time throughout an engagement.\nSr. 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.\nLastly, AHEAD Sr. 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.\nResponsibilities\nClient Delivery\n\nFacilitate sessions of strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops for medium to large service engagements\n\nEnsure that customer expectations are appropriately set and managed\n\nLead project engagement teams through the delivery of consulting service offerings\n\nDrive 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\n\nBreaks down risks or issues into manageable segments, identifies the factors that affect a problem and determine how best to approach\n\nCreation and finalization of project deliverables, may perform peer review for collateral developed by others on a delivery team\n\nPresentation of deliverables to client executive management\n\nKnowledge of AHEAD’s project lifecycle management activities to effectively support delivery engagements throughout the duration of a project\n\nAct as the Engagement Lead on customer facing projects, when assigned\n\nBusiness Development\n\nSupport business development pursuits through client discovery meetings\n\nRepresent service offerings during the sales cycle, including project scoping, proposal development, and presenting proposals to clients\n\nKnowledge of AHEAD’s sales management lifecycle to effectively support sales opportunities throughout the duration of a proposal\n\nAssist Principal Consultants with engagement scoping and the creation of proposal collateral\n\nFamiliarity with AHEAD’s enterprise service portfolio to identify opportunities for cross-practice collaboration\n\nPractice Development & Thought Leadership\n\nMaintain subject matter expertise in a minimum of eight security domains or three security solutions\n\nParticipate in the development, enhancement, and standardization of AHEAD in-practice service offerings\n\nOwns and/or enables more than one service capability\n\nProcess-focused technology thought leader and evangelist\n\nMaintain a broad knowledge and understanding of current and future state IT trends, technologies, and standards\n\nLend support and mentorship to others\n\nKnowledge, Skills and Abilities\nCloud Security Architecture & Risk Strategy:\n\nProven experience in reviewing and implementing secure cloud reference architectures and landing zones.\n\nAbility to translate risk strategy by mapping traditional lift-and-shift approaches into cloud-native security controls.\n\nStrong understanding of multi-cloud governance models including Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), policy-as-code (PaC), tagging standards, and multi-account strategies.\n\nCNAPP Tooling:\n\n5+ years of hands-on experience with CNAPP tools, particularly Wiz and Prisma Cloud.\n\nExpertise in integrating Wiz and Prisma Cloud with enterprise tooling such as ServiceNow, CI/CD pipelines, and ticketing/alerting workflows.\n\nAble to clearly and concisely communicate Wiz/Prisma outputs (criticality, risk, remediation) to technical and business stakeholders.\n\nStrong track record in deploying and instantiating Prisma Cloud.\n\nCloud Platforms & Native Security Controls:\n\n5+ years of experience working with AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.\n\nFamiliarity with cloud-native security services such as AWS Security Hub, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and Google Security Command Center.\n\nHands-on knowledge of cloud identity (IAM, Federation, RBAC) across multi-cloud environments.\n\nFamiliarity with IDaaS solutions such as Okta and Entra ID.\n\nSecurity Frameworks & Governance:\n\nStrong knowledge of security standards and frameworks: CIS Benchmarks, NIST, FedRAMP, ISO 27001, GDPR.\n\nAbility to design and map cloud-specific controls for audit and compliance needs.\n\nExperience with SIEM integration (Splunk, Sentinel, Chronicle) and 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