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IT Security Consultant (30-50% Travel Req.)

Confidential

IT Security Consultant (30-50% Travel Req.)

Dallas, TX
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Job Description

    Senior Security Consultant with experience leading technical projects involved in application security for our Cybersecurity Practice. This is an opportunity to work in a fast-paced, collaborative, and team-based project environment. Successful candidates should be driven to provide high quality delivery in a number of industries, be client-facing, and be a capable team leader of this technical solution. RESPONSIBILITIES:

    • Assess current state client business processes, gathering and defining business and technology requirements, and re-engineering new business processes, capabilities, and supporting technologies for clients
    • Evaluate, recommend, architect, and implement highly scalable business processes, technology, and strategies for security
    • Partner directly with clients project teams to implement processes and technology that support various technical and business functions
    • Work with a small project team as a hands-on leader
    • Work with software developers to identify architectural security weakness and provide guidance on secure coding and industry best practices
    • Identify, select, and implement security solutions for protecting sensitive data
    • Provide expertise on authentication, entitlements, identity management (Single Sign On), data leak prevention, data protection, encryption, etc. to developers and IT organizations.
    • Manage client relationships and meet with clients to determine business and functional requirements
    • Translate business and technical requirements into concrete projects proposals including detailed work plans and cost estimates
    • Contribute to business development process at an existing client, as well as emerging technology
    • Promote thought leadership in emerging technologies; from partnerships to go-to-market offerings, to strategy, to design and implementation
    • Be in the market publishing and speaking about the evolving cloud/IaaS industry standards
    • Actively build a professional network and affiliate network in the local community

    QUALIFICATIONS:

    • 4+ years experience in Security, with demonstrable experience in application security
    • Minimum of 6 years’ experience within IT
    • 4+ years of hands-on software development experience, or experience with development languages/frameworks
    • Capacity to communicate with development teams and create detailed specifications for technical requirements to drive business needs
    • Domain expertise in designing applications/architectures for enterprise grade applications to secure sensitive data and prevent data leakage
    • Prior management consulting experience is preferred
    • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or another related degree strongly preferred
    • Strong project management experience and skills, and ability to drive projects through to completion
    • A commitment to inclusion and diversity, and openness to new ideas and perspectives
    • Ability to travel up to 70% in a client-facing capacity
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