Technical Security Consultant - Senior Associate

About our practice

Cyber security is one of the defining topics of our age, and cyber risk represents one of the most significant strategic risks to PwC’s clients. In a recent PwC survey it remains the top risk in the minds of CEO’s globally, with 91% of UK CEOs rating it as a significant concern. Businesses are changing rapidly, facing disrupted supply chains, rapidly changing workforces and accelerating digital transformation on an unprecedented scale.

At PwC we help our clients transform, and our cyber security practice enables them to execute that transformation securely and to become more resilient to cyber security threats. Our cyber security practice operates nationally, and serves clients holistically with strategy, risk and governance advice, and with deep technical implementation and assurance expertise.

As one of the largest cyber security specialist consulting practices in the UK, we have over 350 practitioners who range from business risk advisors who work with CEOs, CFOs and boards, to transformation specialists who execute major change programmes, to deep technical SMEs who help clients implement controls to secure their businesses from attack, and support them to respond when an attack occurs.

Our practice is experiencing significant growth which is driven by demand from our clients for greater assistance in dealing with increasingly complex cyber security risks, and support in executing their change and growth agendas securely. We believe helping our clients gain confidence in their digital future is essential to their growth, and as a result our cyber security practice is one of the key growth priorities of our firm.

The Role

Does the constant stream of cyber breach-related news keep you up at night? Are you passionate about technology and want to redefine the status quo? Do you want to help solve security problems faced by the C-suite at some of the world’s most iconic brands? Come join us and help build a secure digital society!

We are seeking cyber security architects at the senior associate level to join our advisory team within our Cyber security practice, to respond to strong demand-led growth. Our cyber security architects help clients to understand their cyber risks and define, design, and execute a strategy which enables the business to deliver its objectives within their desired risk envelope.

Using innovative methods and partnerships with leading vendors, your role involves the following:

Support client leadership teams to define their risk appetite and a proportionate target state of cyber capability to deliver it;

Define operating and governance models to make cyber security a sustainable capability which responds to evolving business priorities;

Design and deliver multi-year transformation programmes to uplift clients’ cyber security capabilities.

You may have worked within a corporate organisation or across multiple industries, or have developed a specialism in a particular sector. Whichever of these describes you, you will be developing a strong track record of credibility as a trusted advisor and an expert in Enterprise Security Architecture.

You will also have strong relationship building skills and you’ll be keen to support our practice senior leaders to respond to client needs and win new work.

Responsibilities

Client service

• Writing cyber security strategies rooted in a pragmatic understanding of their business situation and objectives, to help them navigate complex, risk-driven cyber decisions.

• Designing cyber security services and architectures that will enable strong security capabilities.

• Maintaining awareness of key business and industry trends, and understanding how they impact responses to cyber risk.

Business and practice development

• Building client relationships and establishing credibility by demonstrating knowledge of various aspects of cyber security, and identifying opportunities where PwC can assist.

• Supporting senior members of the team in developing client proposals and solution offerings.

• Supporting the development of security architecture-related toolkits, methodologies and accelerators.

• Helping retain and develop other cyber security team members.

Skills & Experience

• Broad range of cyber and information security skills, knowledge and experience, perhaps underpinned by a deeper SME in one of our key advisory practice areas (see www.pwc.co.uk/cyber).

• Experience/knowledge of relevant methods and frameworks (such as SABSA, TOGAF, NIST CSF etc.).

• Experience/knowledge of cloud service providers and cloud-native security technologies.

• Experience providing expert strategy, risk and technical advice, guidance and support on cyber security.

• Excellent communication skills – both oral (for interviews/meetings, presentations) and written (for designing and writing engaging reports which communicate recommendations and actions succinctly and clearly convey the message in a way which is appropriate for the audience, and rooted in the client’s needs).

• A keen eye for detail and strong focus on encouraging quality work by all team members.

• Experience of business development or sales, including working on bid teams, and experience of supporting winning proposals and RFP responses is desirable.

What you will get

Our purpose as a cyber security practice is to help solve complex problems and build a secure digital society. You’ll contribute to delivering large scale cyber security transformations at some of the world’s most iconic companies and brands, and to helping them to build their cyber defences, assure those defences and respond to incidents. Working in cyber security at PwC will give you unparalleled breadth of experience, and insight into how a wide range of client businesses work.

Within our practice, you will have the opportunity to broaden experience across industries, manage teams in delivering engagements at scale, build relationships with clients and senior groups, and be involved in big business changes.

You’ll work in a team where we mix a supportive and collaborative culture with a challenging and high performance one. You’ll be rewarded for your contribution and impact in building our business and delivering on our purpose.

You’ll be supported to develop your career by an experienced and close-knit team who will invest in your career and experience and provide you with mentoring and coaching to transition to PwC and grow your career in our firm.

Risk
Risk is all around us and in our complex world, is changing all the time. Our teams bring people from diverse backgrounds together, using their skills and cutting-edge technology, to help solve complex problems. We are pioneers in a world of changing risk and our market leading services build resilient organisations. Join us and together, we can support our clients to rethink risk.

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