We are seeking an experienced Lead Cybersecurity Consultant to join our cybersecurity practice and play a critical role across the full engagement lifecycle. This position requires a strong blend of technical expertise, customer-facing consulting skills, and delivery ownership, with responsibility spanning pre-sales support, solution design, project execution, and delivery governance.
The ideal candidate will act as a trusted advisor to clients while providing internal technical leadership to ensure high-quality, consistent delivery of cybersecurity services.
Key Responsibilities
Pre-Sales and Solution Ownership
- Support sales and business development teams during pre-sales engagements, including requirements discovery, solution design, effort estimation, and proposal input.
- Review and contribute to Statements of Work (SOWs), ensuring scope clarity, realistic timelines, and delivery feasibility.
- Participate in customer presentations, workshops, and technical discussions to articulate cybersecurity value propositions.
Cybersecurity Service Delivery
- Take ownership of end-to-end delivery of cybersecurity engagements, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and to agreed quality standards.
- Oversee and contribute to the delivery of services across multiple domains, including:
- Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC)
- Security incident management and monitoring
- Threat detection and defense operations
- Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VA/PT)
- Security engineering and architecture
- Provide hands-on technical guidance and oversight to consulting and engineering teams during project execution.
Client Engagement and Stakeholder Management
- Act as the primary point of contact for assigned customer engagements.
- Manage customer expectations, communicate progress, and address delivery risks or challenges proactively.
- Translate complex cybersecurity concepts into clear, actionable insights for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Quality, Risk, and Governance
- Ensure adherence to cybersecurity best practices, frameworks, and regulatory requirements throughout project delivery.
- Identify delivery risks early and implement mitigation strategies to protect timelines, quality, and customer satisfaction.
- Review and validate key deliverables to ensure technical accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
Solution and Services Portfolio
- Contribute to the definition and ongoing enhancement of the cybersecurity solutions and services portfolio in line with market and customer needs.
- Support the design and standardization of service offerings, including delivery models and supporting documentation.
- Evaluate new cybersecurity technologies and services to strengthen and expand the solution stack.
- Manage relationships with key cybersecurity technology vendors and service partners, including technical evaluations and enablement activities.
- Act as a technical reference for the organization’s cybersecurity solutions during internal and customer engagements.
Continuous Improvement and Practice Development
- Stay current with evolving cybersecurity threats, technologies, and regulatory landscapes.
- Contribute to the enhancement of delivery methodologies, tools, templates, and internal processes.
- Support knowledge sharing, mentoring, and capability development within the cybersecurity team.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Security, IT or a related discipline.
- 8–10 years of experience delivering cybersecurity services, consulting, or managed security engagements within the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region.
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity principles, technologies, regional regulations, and industry frameworks.
- Proven experience delivering complex cybersecurity projects across multiple service domains.
- Solid project delivery and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to manage multiple engagements concurrently.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
Preferred Certifications
- Industry-recognized certifications such as CISSP, CISM, ISO 27001, PMP, ITIL v4, cloud security certifications, or equivalent.
- Experience with regional or international cybersecurity frameworks and standards (e.g., NIST, ISO, GDPR, UAE IA, NCA ECC, PDPL, SAMA, CBK CSF, CBB, sector-specific regulations).
