Senior Technical Consultant - Security GRC

AHEAD; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health insurance

Paid time off and company holidays

Flexible work arrangements

Learning and development opportunities

Employee wellness initiatives

Retirement and statutory benefits

Inclusive, people-first culture

Job summary

AHEAD is seeking a senior GRC consultant to lead client engagements, diagnose maturity across NIST CSF, 800-53, 800-171, and ISO 27001 implementations. You will quantify risk, design target-state operating models, and deliver defensible, executive-ready artifacts.

You will drive workshops with CISOs, control owners, and executives, shaping scope, evidence, and roadmaps. Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in security GRC, exceptional English, and strong consulting delivery skills, with a track

Qualifications

• 5+ years in security GRC, risk, audit, or control assurance, including consulting or professional services.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
• Strong ability to structure ambiguous problems and write defensible deliverables.
• Experience presenting to senior stakeholders and guiding workshops.

Responsibilities

• Lead client engagements from scoping through readout and knowledge transfer.
• Translate multiple frameworks into a unified control and evidence model.
• Produce risk positions with qualitative and quantitative analysis for boards and CISOs.
• Design and deliver executive summaries, roadmaps, and control crosswalks.
• Coach client staff to ensure program continuity after engagement ends.

Skills

English proficiency

GRC consulting

Risk quantification

Client engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

NIST CSF

NIST SP 800-53

NIST SP 800-171

CIS Controls

CRI Profile

ISO/IEC 27001

Job description

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.

AtAHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging,where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.

We are an equal opportunity employer,anddo not discriminatebased onan individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, maritalstatus,or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.

We embraceall candidatesthatwillcontribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas andperspectives atAHEAD.

This is a senior consulting role, not an internal control-operations seat. You will be sold to clients as a credible authority on security GRC. You diagnose program maturity, design target-state operating models, quantify risk in business terms, and leave behind frameworks, artifacts, and decisions the client can run without you.

You must be highly proficient in English. Client deliverables, findings, board packs, statements of work, and live workshops are held to an executive and audit standard. Fluency is not enough. The bar is precise, concise, defensible professional English under time pressure.

You must be expert in NIST CSF, NIST SP 800-53, NIST SP 800-171, CIS Controls, the Cyber Risk Institute (CRI) Profile, and ISO/IEC 27001, and you must be able to manage and quantify risk—not only score it.

You must also be a consultant: structure ambiguous problems, manage senior stakeholders, run workshops, write commercial-quality deliverables, defend recommendations, and transfer capability to the client team.

Why this role is Senior
You are expected to operate with limited supervision on complex, multi-framework engagements. Typical work includes regulatory or contractual readiness (including CUI / 800-171), CSF or CRI profile builds, ISO 27001 ISMS design or certification support, control rationalization across overlapping frameworks, and quantified risk analysis for boards, CISOs, and risk committees.
You will often be the most senior GRC voice in the room. That means you set the method, hold the quality bar, and say clearly when a control, a score, or a “green” status is not the same thing as acceptable residual risk.

Core Mandate
Own the analytical and advisory quality of assigned GRC workstreams from scoping through readout and knowledge transfer.
Translate overlapping control frameworks into one coherent control and evidence model the client can operate.
Produce risk positions that combine sound qualitative judgment with quantification the business can use.
Run the engagement like a consultant: scope, stakeholders, workshops, issues, deliverables, and next-step decisions.

Responsibilities

Client consulting and engagement leadership

• Shape problem statements, engagement scope, assumptions, and success criteria with the client sponsor and the account team.
• Build workplans, RAID logs, and stakeholder maps; keep delivery on quality even when the client’s evidence or ownership is incomplete.
• Facilitate workshops with CISOs, control owners, internal audit, legal, procurement, and business executives. Drive decisions, not status meetings.
• Manage resistance, conflicting frameworks, and “we already have a policy” arguments without losing the room or the facts.
• Write and present deliverables that survive legal, audit, and executive review: current-state assessments, target operating models, control crosswalks, risk registers, quantified scenarios, roadmaps, and board narratives.
• Coach client staff so the program does not collapse when the engagement ends. Consulting value is transfer, not slide volume.
• Support pre-sales and scoping when asked: approach, level of effort, risks to delivery, and what “good” looks like for this client.

Framework design, assessment, and rationalization

• Assess and design against NIST CSF (1.1 and/or 2.0): profiles, subcategory outcomes, tiers, and CSF as the executive reporting spine.
• Assess and tailor NIST SP 800-53 (Rev. 5 preferred): control families, baselines, overlays, common/hybrid/system-specific controls, and assessment procedures.
• Assess NIST SP 800-171 implementation for CUI: requirement status, 800-171A-style objectives, scoping of CUI flows, POA&Ms, and contractor obligation implications.
• Apply CIS Controls (v8 preferred) as a prioritized operational control set (IG1–IG3), mapped to CSF and 800-53 rather than run as a second bureaucracy.
• Interpret and assess the CRI Profile, including diagnostic statements and financial-sector or critical-third-party expectations.
• Design or uplift an ISO/IEC 27001 ISMS: scope, SoA, risk assessment and treatment, internal audit liaison, management review inputs, and certification or surveillance readiness.
• Build and maintain crosswalks so one control, one owner, and one evidence package can satisfy multiple frameworks

Assurance, evidence, and defensible writing

• Design test procedures, challenge evidence quality, and write deficiency and residual-risk narratives that are factual and unambiguous.
• Prepare clients for internal audit, ISO certification bodies, customer assessments, and 800-171 / CRI / CSF inquiries.
• Produce executive summaries that a non-specialist leader can act on without a decoder.

Required qualifications

Frameworks (all required, with working depth—not acronym familiarity)

• NIST Cybersecurity Framework
• NIST SP 800-53
• NIST SP 800-171
• CIS Controls
• CRI Profile
• ISO/IEC 27001 (working command of 27002 expected)

Risk (required)

End-to-end risk management (identify, analyze, evaluate, treat, accept, monitor) and risk quantification (scenarios, ranges, expected loss or equivalent, explicit assumptions). “High / medium / low” without a method is not qualification.

Experience and education

Roughly 5+ years in security GRC, risk, audit, or control assurance, including substantial time in consulting, professional services, or a comparably senior client-advisory capacity. Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience. Seniority is judged by judgment, writing, and client impact—not title inflation.

Why AHEAD:

Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.

We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.

India Employment Benefits include:

Comprehensive health insurancecoverage for employees, with options to extend coverage to dependents

Paid time off and company holidays, along with additional leave benefits as per policy

Flexible work arrangements, supporting work-life balance

Learning and development opportunitiesto support continuous growth and upskilling

Employee wellness initiativesand programs focused on physical and mental well-being

Retirement and statutory benefitsin line with India regulations

Inclusive and people-first culture, with a strong focus on collaboration and ownership