Senior Security Consultant
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Organisations don't innovate, people do.
As part of our digital transformation business, you’ll help clients unlock innovation, embrace the future and change communities for good. And we’ll help you stimulate new thinking, accelerate your career and connect you to projects that really matter.
Join our team of over 600 data scientists, design thinkers, immersive digital consultants, project managers and innovators, all working to create positive change for generations to come.
Who are we looking for?
Our Southeast Property & Buildings business is growing! We have an exciting opportunity available for a Senior Security Consultant / Project Manager in Chantilly, VA or Washington, DC to join our team in support of the growth of our Property & Buildings Team.
Responsibilities
- Recommendations: Recommend changes to policies, processes, standards, and practices that would improve operational support.
- Needs Assessment: Uncover emerging issues or needs, identifying potential causes, barriers, and key stakeholders, as well as related issues.
- Solutions Analysis: Identify and evaluate complex, expertise-led solutions against a range of criteria to find the ones that best meet business needs.
- Improvement/Innovation: Identify shortcomings in existing business practices, then suggest and implement improvements while developing and delivering projects or a work stream within the organization's change management program. Involves working with guidance from senior colleagues.
- Knowledge Management System: Manage the knowledge management system with guidance from senior colleagues. May involve responsibility for the development or operation of the system.
- Business Requirements Identification: Elicit complex business requirements using a variety of methods, such as interviews, document analysis, workshops, and workflow analysis, to express the requirements in terms of target user roles and goals.
- Feasibility Studies: Conduct complex feasibility studies from a technological and organizational perspective and document findings to complete cost-benefit analysis on implementing changes to business processes, products, or business unit structure.
- Contract Management: Manage a portfolio of contracts and negotiate service-level agreements. Will also plan, coordinate, and supervise activities relating to major contracts.
- Policy Development and Implementation: Develop procedures and interpret and apply policy for area of expertise to achieve specified outputs, or advise the wider business on application of policy, then monitor implementation of those procedures within the organization.
- Product and Solution Development: Analyze and evaluate the feasibility and relevance of proposed complex products and services and develop and amend, as necessary, with guidance from senior colleagues. May also be responsible for supervising activities performed by a product development or specialist team.
- Project Management: Manage a portfolio of projects while reporting to senior colleagues.
- Client & Customer Management (External): Manage important client relationships with guidance from senior colleagues, or oversee relationship management with a group of more transactional clients and customers.
Specific responsibilities of this role will include:
- Design Electronic Security Systems (ESS) including:
- Access Control Systems (ACS)
- Video Assessment and Surveillance Systems (VASS) / CCTV
- Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS)
- Vehicle barrier controls
- 2-Way Intercom systems
- Coordinate security equipment with architectural, door hardware, and other design team members
- Complete engineering tasks from concept design through construction closeout including development of construction drawings (riser, line, network, plan, RCP, schedules, wall fields, etc.), specifications, and cost estimates, collaboratively with engineers, designers, and consultants
- Provide creative, innovative and project specific solutions to fit the needs of our clients and communities
- Manage discipline specific and multi-discipline projects, while engaging with internal and external stakeholders
- Manage all aspects of the project, including client, team, delivery, quality, safety, scope, budget, profitability, and schedule
- Lead a
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