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Principal, Technical Risk and Controls Advisory
CoalfireUnited States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 17 Mar 2025
About the role
About Coalfire
Coalfire is on a mission to make the world a safer place by solving our clients’ hardest cybersecurity challenges. We work at the cutting edge of technology to advise, assess, automate, and ultimately help companies navigate the ever-changing cybersecurity landscape. We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado with offices across the U.S. and U.K., and we support clients around the world.
But that’s not who we are – that’s just what we do. We are thought leaders, consultants, and cybersecurity experts, but above all else, we are a team of passionate problem-solvers who are hungry to learn, grow, and make a difference.
Position Summary
As a Principal Consultant on our ISO/SOC Advisory team, you'll be considered a Compliance Advisory subject matter expert (SME) in a particular technical area e.g. evaluating/assessing the security and compliance of client firms/services against regulatory and industry requirements and standards, and against security best practice frameworks, etc.
The Principal Consultant (SME) is expected to leverage their technical and business experience across three (3) domains, including:1. Evaluate and enhance the security of complex systems that may impact both risk and compliance for organizations, large and small.2. Mentor and develop team members to help grow the team and its capabilities3. Engage outwardly into the community through blog posts, technical white papers, forum participation and conference speaking engagements. Engage inwardly to support business and practice growth by developing Sales/Marketing collateral, delivery methodologies and SOPs, train/mentor colleagues as necessary and serve as the SME for all topics related to your technical or compliance area of expertise
Coalfire is on a mission to make the world a safer place by solving our clients’ hardest cybersecurity challenges. We work at the cutting edge of technology to advise, assess, automate, and ultimately help companies navigate the ever-changing cybersecurity landscape. We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado with offices across the U.S. and U.K., and we support clients around the world.
But that’s not who we are – that’s just what we do. We are thought leaders, consultants, and cybersecurity experts, but above all else, we are a team of passionate problem-solvers who are hungry to learn, grow, and make a difference.
Position Summary
As a Principal Consultant on our ISO/SOC Advisory team, you'll be considered a Compliance Advisory subject matter expert (SME) in a particular technical area e.g. evaluating/assessing the security and compliance of client firms/services against regulatory and industry requirements and standards, and against security best practice frameworks, etc.
The Principal Consultant (SME) is expected to leverage their technical and business experience across three (3) domains, including:1. Evaluate and enhance the security of complex systems that may impact both risk and compliance for organizations, large and small.2. Mentor and develop team members to help grow the team and its capabilities3. Engage outwardly into the community through blog posts, technical white papers, forum participation and conference speaking engagements. Engage inwardly to support business and practice growth by developing Sales/Marketing collateral, delivery methodologies and SOPs, train/mentor colleagues as necessary and serve as the SME for all topics related to your technical or compliance area of expertise
What You'll Do
- Work with other teams within Coalfire to drive customer success.
- Scope and lead on-site engagements with clients. This includes leading pre-sales calls, onsite visits, understanding customer security and compliance requirements and environments, and proposing and delivering packaged offerings or custom solution engagements.
- Develop technical content, such as security plans, procedures, policies, and white papers that can be used by our clients to assist them in elevating/building out their security and compliance programs.
- Lead delivery engagements including on-site projects working with clients to build out compliance roadmaps, architecture guidance, gap assessments, etc.
- Collaborate with Coalfire engineering, support and business teams to convey partner and customer feedback.
- Serve as the practice subject matter expert (SME) for escalations, sales/marketing support, driving practice profitability and revenue.
- Provide Delivery Team Support, including: identifying process improvements, training Delivery personnel on methodologies/tools and quality topics, and mentoring Delivery personnel.
- Development of industry-wide service line thought leadership through:
- Authoring: methodologies, templates, white papers, work instructions, guidelines, forms, tools
- Developing and delivering industry specific training, including speaking/presenting at
- conferences, creating webinars
- Support management of client satisfaction at all phases of the client relationship.
- Ensure continuous professional development by maintaining industry specific certifications.
- Maintain strong depth of knowledge in the practice area.
- Collaborate with project managers, quality management, sales and other delivery team members to drive customer satisfaction and meet project deliverables.
- Establish account relationships and identifies upsell and cross sell opportunities and escalates to sales
What You'll Bring
- 7+ years of experience in an IT security audit, assessment, compliance, risk management, or data privacy role.
- Knowledge and awareness of the latest information risk, security and compliance innovations, trends, challenges and solutions.
- Knowledge of strategy, privacy and risk standards/frameworks and professional practices (NIST, ISO, CIS Top 20, ISSA, CSA CMM, Privacy by Design and FAIR, etc.).
- Knowledge of the typical enterprise risk and security operational practices.
- Knowledge of information security related solutions, tools and utilities.
- Experience in strategy development, setting direction for team members, influencing both internally and externally.
- Experience building common compliance frameworks as well as mapping between different compliance requirements.
- Demonstrated breadth of security expertise in various sub domains such as encryption, identity, incident response, etc.
- Hands-
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