Principal Consultant - Risk Advisory Services - IT

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Company- Leading risk advisory Company

Opening: Principal Consultant- Risk Advisory Services

Location: Base location - India (Bangalore/ Mumbai/Delhi) ; Delivery - Middle East

Job Description

Company is looking for a Principal Consultant for its Risk Advisory Services practice. The consultant shall be responsible for delivering, leading and managing information security assignments in India and Middle East. The consultant will serve as a subject matter expert on these areas. The consultant should be willing to undertake both short term (< 6 month) and long term (1 year) assignments in Middle East (primarily Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, or Qatar).

Eligibility

- Principal Consultant: 18+ years of relevant experience with at-least 9 years in a consulting role

- A 4-year bachelors degree (relevant degrees such as computer engineering, information technology, electronics preferred)

- Desired certifications - CISSP, CRISC, CISA/CISM, CCNA, CEH, ISO 27001 LI

Core Competencies

Mandatory prior project delivery experience and strong expertise in:

Information Security Governance

Information Security Risk Management

Information Security Compliance

Information Security and IT Controls

- Prior experience in delivering and managing large scale information security projects.

- Prior experience in information security strategy and planning (strategies, roadmaps, maturity assessments, governance organization design, roles and responsibilities), defining KPIs/KRIs and measurement.

- Prior experience in developing holistic and detailed frameworks for multiple IS domain areas such as cyber security, risk management, data protection, incident management etc.

- Prior experience in developing IS policies, standards, guidelines, processes and procedures.

- Prior experience in conducting assessments for and excellent knowledge of ISO 27001, ISO 31000, ISO 22301, NIST SP 800 53, PCI DSS, ISO 20000, ITIL, COBIT, COSO, other standards.

- Mandatory experience in conducting IT Risk Assessments.

- Sound understanding of information security non-technical and technical controls.

- Solid understanding of IT network infrastructure architecture and components.

- Ability to create high quality deliverables.

- Excellent project management, client handling and negotiation, decision making and crisis management skills.

- Prior experience in managing, guiding and mentoring teams.

- Ability to serve as a cross domain subject matter expert and advisor.

- Ability to independently manage as well as execute projects.

- Ability to directly interact and manage CXO level stakeholder expectations.

- Excellent written and verbal communication in English, clear articulation.

- Holistic thinking and on-the-fly solution engineering.