Senior Consultant, Cyber Security

Ricardo

  • Beijing Chaoyang, Changchun, Jilin
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 19 days ago
OverviewRole: Senior Consultant, Cyber SecurityLocation: Beijing, Shanghai, ChangchunRole ID: 2025-2815Hybrid remote/In officeOur vision is to create a safe and sustainable worldRicardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.The Cyber Security Principal Consultant is an advanced technical expert specializing in cybersecurity. This role is integral to shaping innovative methodologies and leading technical work with minimal supervision, act as technical leader for technical discipline within the organization. The consultant is responsible for mentoring and coaching other specialists, generating new technical solutions, and developing high-level industry relationships. This position includes overseeing a portfolio of projects from technical aspects and ensuring their successful delivery.Key responsibilities:TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP
  • Review critical technical decisions within the cybersecurity domain.
  • Review the work of colleagues, providing constructive feedback and promoting continuous improvement.
  • Teach and share cybersecurity skills with team members.
KNOWLEDGE
  • Apply cutting-edge cybersecurity knowledge to analyse complex information in line with standards and procedures.
  • Engage in continuous professional development to expand cybersecurity expertise.
  • Lead skills development within the cybersecurity team.
PROJECT DELIVERY
  • Execute cybersecurity projects within agreed timelines and quality standards.
  • Develop innovative tools and techniques tailored to client cybersecurity needs.
  • Create new technical solutions and identify best practices from various industries.
BID DEVELOPMENT
  • Provide innovative or normal technical inputs, technical methodologies, and manpower estimates to tenders, for unique client solutions.
SALES
  • Seek out new business development opportunities.
  • Prepare and deliver sales focused technical presentations.
  • Support technical sales related meetings as needed.
  • Promote Ricardo's technical capabilities both within Rail and cross business unit / practice.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
  • Manage cybersecurity project tasks within assigned timelines and budgets, supervising teams to meet customer expectations.
CUSTOMER SATISFACTION
  • Ensure all client interactions are positive, focusing on continuous improvement in cybersecurity service delivery.
WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT
  • Manage utilization forecasts and seek out project opportunities to maintain target utilization and expand knowledge.
  • Communicate with Line and Project Managers regarding workload imbalances and share tasks as needed.
  • Share work with others when overloaded.
COACHING
  • Mentor colleagues in cybersecurity processes and improvements.
  • Ensure technical analyses and processes align with company procedures.
  • Seek and share new technical ideas within the cybersecurity domain.
Key competencies and experience
  • 10+ years overall experience, 5 years related experience in the cyber security domain, minimum 3 years in rail industry field.
  • Master at least one of the qualifications: CEH, IEC 62443, CREST Certifications
  • Industry Certification on CISSP (Preference)
  • Experience of delivering technical Cyber Security consultancy in multi-disciplined and global environments.
  • Appropriate academic qualifications and / or technical expertise to undertake the role.
  • Demonstrable experience in project management and technical consulting/engineering within cybersecurity.
  • Good awareness of project management processes and data, able to support others in developing these skillsets.
Skills and behaviours
  • PLANNING & ORGANIZATION - Builds and manages large scale/complex programmes, achieving commitment to actions/goals.
  • COMMUNICATION AND INFLUENCING - Builds influencing strategies that achieve significant change in stakeholder positions
  • WORKING IN TEAMS - Builds cross-functional relationships and synergies.
  • ANALYSIS AND PROBLEM SOLVING - Takes a systemic approach to resolving major/high complex/long term problems.
  • BEING INNOVATIVE AND IMPROVISING CONTINUOUSLY - Builds an innovation and improvement culture.
  • REFLECTING AND LEARNING - Ensures both self and Ricardo are at the forefront of industry developments.
Working with RicardoYou will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.Next stepsOnce you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.Please advise the recruitment team if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.Diversity, Equality and Inclusion statementWe are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can.#LI-JL1

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