CS Senior Business Consultant

At NTT we believe that by using innovative technology we can solve global challenges and create a world that is sustainable and secure. We are looking for curious people, from diverse backgrounds, that are keen to work in a fast-paced and agile environment.

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The primary objective of this position is to create strategies and plans that define how existing and emerging technology should be utilized to support an organization’s overall business strategy. They develop and maintain knowledge of evolving trends in one or more emerging technology areas (e.g. Cloud, Mobility, Analytics, etc.) and apply these to define opportunities for client organizations to deliver new business capabilities, profitable business growth and competitive cost efficiencies.

The CS Senior Business Consultant engages with senior stakeholders (e.g. Senior Business and Senior IT and Buyers) in existing Dimension Data key accounts and new accounts and is a domain expert with strong business acumen. The CS Senior Business Consultant also works with the relevant internal stakeholders and leverages their knowledge around technology and provides information to these stakeholders that will enable successful engagement with the client. These individuals require deep domain expertise or specialisation in at least one or two areas and/or cross business unit architecture knowledge.

Working at NTT

Problem identification and analysis
They identify the most important client IT issues, and maximize business value by conducting rigorous analyses and developing strategic multiyear roadmaps (sometimes in collaboration with the Enterprise Architect vertical expert) within their domain of specialisation that address these issues. This employee will use their excellent client engagement skills to ensure the identification and analysis of client problems and opportunities for improvement and work closely with the relevant internal stakeholders to consider the appropriate and innovative solutions to solve these problems. They conduct business diagnostic studies and assess functional areas of the information technology sector.

Business transformation initiatives and solutions
These individuals take responsibility for the completion of the required documentation relating to a business transformational initiative. This includes the development, maintenance and communication of technology roadmap documents and business cases. They understand how IT services use applications and how these can be used to transform business and translate these into a solution for implementation by the relevant internal stakeholders. The CS Senior Business Consultant will provide the end to end solution set to enable the client’s business transformation. They search for innovative solutions that will lead to business development initiatives for Dimension Data and continuous improvement enhancements for the client.

Co-ordination of the solution implementation
The CS Senior Business Consultant takes responsibility for the visionary integration of the solution by orchestrating the internal co-ordination of the solution implementation. They continuously drive for client satisfaction and brief and introduce the consultant experts, ensuring the completion of assignments. These individuals need to follow-up and close out on the agreed business upgrade plan.

Practice Management
CS Senior Business Consultants remain abreast of current trends and best practices in the area of expertise by attending technical conferences. They have the ability to integrate all the domains of applications architecture.

Consulting
They demonstrate a strong command of consulting skills through their ability to successfully apply the Dimension Data Consulting Services methodology to increasingly complex consulting engagements. In addition, they have knowledge of project management principles and they ensure that projects with clients are executed accordingly.

Business development
They provide their engagement and subject matter expertise in supporting the internal stakeholders in proposal development and other business development activities. They work proactively with sales to look for additional business opportunities to address client requirements and continuously search for creative solutions to address the client’s business needs.

Behavioural skills
These employees are very assertive in their approach and display excellent client engagement skills and strategic thinking ability during both the presales and delivery phases of an engagement. They use their expertise and skills to ensure technology solutions and agreements meet both client and business objectives. They have proven leadership ability and they are able to articulate ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences.

They possess excellent communication skills (both verbally and written) and interpersonal skills and employ these skills to interact with a variety of stakeholders. They have superb problem solving and analytical skills and are detail orientated. They are able to think creatively and devise innovative solutions to business problems.

Required Work Experience:
At least 10 years’ experience in a consulting and senior IT role within a large scale (preferably multi- national) technology services environment

What will make you a good fit for the role?

Specialisation Job Information - SECURITY

Recommended Business Card Title

• Security Transformational Consultant, Technical

Education required

• Bachelors degree with a concentration in IT Security / Cybersecurity would be advantagous
• MBA would be advantageous

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead Penetration Testing / Red Team assessments
• Lead Firewall Assurance engagements
• Lead Network Threat & Visibility Assessment (NTVA)
• Lead Compromise assessment enagagements
• Lead Technical Risk assessment engagements
• Perform policy hardening, security standard configuration
• Detailed knowledge of infrastructure security controls
• Detailed knowledge of cloud security controls
• Detailed knowledge application security controls
• Detailed knowledge endpoint security controls
• Detailed knowledge of Security control selection & optimization

Certifications required / advantagous

Required:

• CompTIA Security+

• Advantagous:
• I ISC2 CISSP
• ISC2 SSCP
• ECC CEH
• ECC CHFI
• ECC CND
• ECC CSA
• ECC LPT
• ECC ECES
• ECC ECIH
• ECC ECSS
• CREST Penetration Testing
• CREST Incident Response
• CREST Threat Intelligence
• GIAC
• ITIL
• OSCP / OSCE / OSWP / OSWE
• Cisco CCSP
• Cisco CCNP
• CheckPoint CCSA
• Fortinet FNSA
• Fortinet NSE 1 - 4
• Mcafee
• PAN ACE
• Symantec
• AWS Developer – Professional
• AWS SysOps Admin – Associate

Work experience required

• Minimum of 2 years Technical Security work experience
• Experience and knowledge of ITIL
• Experience and knowledge of GSOA / ITSM
• Track record of managing Technical Security consulting opportunities
• Experience in forming new and stable matrixes teams focused on clear common objectives, client delivery and business results.
• Experience deliverying Technical Security engagaments in security-led business consulting engagements, including for example Cybersecurity Advisory services, operations consulting, security-led business process optimisation, etc.

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