Job description
Security Advisory acts as a trusted advisor to our clients. We demystify security unknowns, develop, and execute pathways to a secure future state, and we are always at the forefront of security and technology best practice. Pair your adaptable, collaborative, and curious mindset with your tech skills, to help clients digitally transform their ways of working. Apply your expertise to help clients reduce security risks, improve resilience, achieve GRC requirements and optimise return on security investments. An Advisory role at Avanade offers you a purposeful career. Know your clients' needs inside out, work with them beginning to end, enjoy achievements together - and repeat.
Come join us
As a Security Advisory Consultant, you will collaborate with senior leadership and participate on engagements advising clients at the highest strategic level with big-picture and tactical guidance on how technology enables a variety of business outcomes. You will work in a fast-paced environment that is groundbreaking, collaborative, and encouraging of your personal and professional development. Our track record of commercial success and our growth ambition will provide you with a fantastic platform for your career.
Skills and experiences
* Front facing consultant/ advisory experience working directly with clients
* Governance & Risk compliance experience
* ISO27001 Auditing and Implementing experience
* Experience with Zero Trust Architecture
* Microsoft technology preferable, but not a requirement
* Comfortable with the end to end lifecycle
About you
Characteristics that can spell success for this role:
* Consultative, collaborative, relationship builder.
* Resilient, adaptable, flexible
* Intellectually curious and passionate about tech.
* Storyteller and engaging content creator.
What you will do
* Shape commercial models, risk, and go-to-market, across a range of security capabilities including Strategy & GRC, IAM, IT Resilience, Data Security and Cloud.
* Assess our clients' security needs, solve unique problems, and work with clients from the earliest visions to the final experience.
* Create, define, and guide transformative projects which enhance maturity, define strategy, solve technology issues, optimize business processes, provide assurance, strengthen controls, reduce security risk, and enable new secure ways of working.
* Collaborate with solution area services teams to build and execute plans
* Engage with a team of business leaders, technical, and sales experts to determine the strategy for offering identification and investment opportunities and drive strategic changes to the portfolio
* Provide advice to our clients, helping them understand the true potential of technology to transform their business, bridging the gap between business and IT as you build strong client relationships.
* Support the identification, qualification, and conversion of security related opportunities.
* Understand customer business drivers and strategies, architectures, cloud adoption roadmaps, operating models, KPIs, to measure and monitor benefits realization
* Deliver written or oral status reports and client presentations regularly
* Stay educated on new and emerging market offerings that may be of interest to our clients
Enjoy your career
Some of the best things about working at Avanade.
* Top-shelf clients - Our clients accelerate value by being bold, imaginative and fast. Look at who we work with - you've probably heard of them and just might want to work with them, too.
* Next-level work. Utilize emerging tech and become adept at solving business critical issues, acquire industry expertise, and a deep understanding of the technologies and capabilities within the Microsoft ecosystem.
* Flexible work schedule. We provide employees with a flexible work schedule that includes flexible start and end times as well as the ability to work remotely.
A great place to work
As you bring your skills and abilities to Avanade, you'll get distinctive experiences, limitless learning, and ambitious growth in return. As we continue to build our diverse and inclusive culture, we become even more innovative and creative, helping us better serve our clients and our communities. You'll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor and guide you, but to also lean on your expertise. You get a company purpose-built for business-critical, leading-edge technology solutions, committed to improving the way humans work, interact and live.
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