AVP, Team Lead, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Security & Resiliency (Power Sector)

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Job Description

AECOM is seeking a seasoned Cyber-Physical System (CPS) Security & Resiliency growth leader to establish and grow our Cyber-Physical System Security & Resiliency team. This role builds the firm’s capability to help clients strengthen and modernize cyber-physical environments through integrated security, risk, and resilience strategies.

The ideal candidate brings deep operational technology (OT) domain expertise, experience building comparable practices, and the ability to engage senior public and private sector leaders on digital strategy, cyber-informed engineering, risk modernization, and cyber-physical program development. While governance and risk may intersect with information technology (IT), this role is not IT-centric. The focus is on the safety, security, and resilience of cyber-physical systems across CPS/OT environments (e.g., industrial control systems (ICS), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), OT) and digitally enabled CPS/IT systems.

This role will launch within AECOM’s Energy Practice, with a mandate to scale across other infrastructure sectors. The position will operate in close partnership with all business lines where cyber-physical systems are part of critical infrastructure, serving as a delivery-enabling function.

This role is expected to operate with peer-level standing to other Practice and Capability Leads.

Role Primary Objectives:

• Establish the CPS Security & Resilience Team as a source of top and bottom-line growth within the Energy Practice.
• Strengthen client confidence and executive trust in AECOM’s ability to manage modern infrastructure risk.
• Establish a repeatable, scalable CPS capability that integrates with existing AECOM services.
• Position AECOM as a trusted consultant on the convergence of infrastructure, automation, AI, and physical consequence.
• Establish governance, risk, and resilience models for the integration of AI and advanced analytics into CPS/OT and CPS/IT environments, with explicit focus on physical consequence, system safety, and operational continuity.

Responsibilities:

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Security & Resilience Strategic Growth and Market Engagement

• Establish the CPS Security & Resilience practice for the Power sector (generation, transmission, distribution, substations, grid modernization), and other critical infrastructure sectors.
• Develop and execute go-to-market, recruitment, and top- and bottom-line growth strategies for the CPS Security & Resiliency Practice.
• Support strategic pursuits and key accounts from the cyber-physical resiliency lens, where CPS risk influences project outcomes or client confidence.
• Engage client executives, boards, and regulators on system-level risk, resilience, and governance.
• Act as a strategic partner to leadership on infrastructure resilience, reliability, and operational risk.
• Advise clients on cyber-physical risk and resiliency implications of AI-enabled grid modernization, automation, DER integration, advanced protection schemes, and digitally enabled control environments.

Advisory & Enterprise Alignment

• Partner closely with Advisory leadership to align CPS services with broader operational, digital, and risk advisory offerings.
• Coordinate with existing IT, OT, and cyber resources across AECOM to avoid duplication and fragmentation.

Client Engagement, Delivery, and Practice Growth

• Work closely with senior leadership to shape AECOM’s CPS Security & Resilience offerings and expand market presence.
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