Consultant, Senior Principal (Cybersecurity)

About the Role

The Senior Principal Consultant serves as a senior technical expert on project tasks to ensure quality services are delivered on schedule and within available budget to meet customer requirements. This includes providing technical expertise to the project manager and project team members with initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing projects. The role involves maintaining relationships with clients and key decision makers to help identify new business opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Serve as senior technical expert on project tasks to ensure quality services are delivered on schedule and within available budget to meet customer requirements.
  • Provide frequent updates to the project manager.
  • Assist project manager with defining and sequencing project tasks, estimating task duration, and developing a project schedule as part of a project plan.
  • Review project plans to understand the scope, schedule, and assigned work.
  • Participate in client and project team meetings.
  • Assist with research and data analysis, including conducting customer or stakeholder analyses.
  • Prepare written documents, reports, and presentations, and assist with giving presentations to clients.
  • Track and accurately report hours spent on projects.
  • Work with individuals at all levels, provide input to reports and other deliverables, execute multiple assignments, meet agreed deadlines, and adjust to changing client demands.
  • Perform quality assurance on project deliverables.
• Engage frequently for input related to area of expertise to provide valuable insight that helps enhance the business.
• Demonstrate a firm understanding of business and implement opportunities for enhancing effectiveness and efficiencies across the organization.
• Develop relationships with existing customers to facilitate new business opportunities for current and/or additional services.
  • Understand and be conversant in ABS Group products and services.
  • Meet with new and existing clients and actively listen to their needs.
  • Communicate client needs to project managers.
  • Review published reports and news articles about existing and potential new clients to identify customer intelligence.
  • Participate in proposal development.
• Represent ABS Group and participate in promoting products and services.
  • Participate in marketing activities, conference presentations, and technical whitepapers.
  • Network to meet new potential clients.
• ICS/OT Cybersecurity Focus
  • Support ICS/OT cybersecurity activities within capital projects, operational programs, and compliance-related initiatives in industrial environments.
  • Serve as a cybersecurity advisor to control systems and project teams, helping align security, operational, and client requirements.
  • Coordinate with cybersecurity, control systems, IT, operations, and other stakeholders to support project execution and client outcomes.
  • Contribute to cybersecurity-related documentation, compliance support activities, risk assessments, and continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Support identification of client needs and service opportunities related to industrial cybersecurity, control systems, and operational resilience.

Requirements

• 15+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Must have an advanced degree or bachelor’s degree and equivalent experience.
• Professional certifications required.
• US Citizenship required for roles supporting government contracts.

Skills

• Ability to gain, retain, illustrate comprehension of learned technical knowledge, and transfer knowledge to other team members.
• Ability to mentor/coach mid-level consultants and hone technical skills in others.
• Ability to actively listen to client needs, determine context, generate probing questions, retain information, and propose solutions.
• Openly accepts change as part of business evolution and provides recommendations to enhance business.
• Firm understanding of key performance indicators and their significance to the business, driving results across the organization.
• Ability to utilize established rapport and role as a subject matter expert to facilitate new business opportunities.
• Ability to coach others on development of customer intimacy and new opportunities.
• Demonstrated ability to plan and deliver successful outcomes.
• Takes responsibility for actions, behaviors, decisions, and results of the team.
• Seeks feedback and uses root cause analysis to improve performance.
• Understands business goals and holds self and team members accountable for commitments and high standards.
• Dependable, highly reliable, and follows through on all assignments.
• Demonstrates independent, objective, open-minded thinking with strong attention to detail and sound judgment.
• Proficient level of time management skills.
• Working knowledge of the ABS Health, Safety, Quality, and Environmental Management System.

Schedule

While the position is remote, regular travel (50%+) to client sites and project locations is a core part of the role.

Pay

$150k - $190k

Reporting Relationships

Reports to a director or executive-level position. May have individual contributor and/or managing direct reports.