Managing Consultant - Digital Trust and Cyber Security

PA Consulting•Denver, CO

About The Position

PA is seeking a Managing Consultant to help grow and deliver its Digital Trust & Cyber Security work in the United States, with a focus on clients in Utilities and/or Transport. The role calls for credible sector insight into organisations responsible for complex, interconnected and operationally critical services, and the ability to turn cyber and technology risks into practical action. The consultant will engage senior clients, develop market opportunities, contribute commercially, lead consulting delivery and build teams. A particular focus is post-quantum cryptography (PQC): helping clients understand exposure, assess critical systems and trust dependencies, set priorities and plan a managed transition. This includes shaping and leading PQC-readiness work such as executive briefings, assessments, prioritisation and roadmaps, using security-architecture thinking to consider cryptographic assets, trust relationships, technology and supplier dependencies, and migration sequencing. The role works with PA colleagues, US go-to-market teams and Jacobs to turn market opportunity into high-quality client work and repeatable capability. It is expected to align with PA’s Digital & Data stream and support the wider Digital Trust & Cyber Security and Jacobs growth agenda. The consultant will provide senior oversight of delivery, lead and develop teams, support pursuits and proposals, and contribute to propositions and reusable approaches that advance real client engagement and commercial opportunities.

Requirements

Significant professional experience in Energy, Utilities or Transport, in consulting, industry or both.
Familiarity with relevant industry frameworks, including MITRE ATT&CK TTPs, NIST CSF and CIS Controls.
Strong grounding in cyber security, technology risk, operational resilience, security architecture or a closely related field.
A relevant cyber security, architecture, resilience or risk qualification; experience in Industrial Control Systems is particularly sought.
Experience engaging senior client or business stakeholders and translating complex issues into clear decisions and practical action.
Experience originating, shaping, selling or expanding consulting or professional-services work.
A record of leading significant client engagements, workstreams or multidisciplinary teams.
Ability to work across business, operational and technical audiences.
Experience with complex technology estates, third-party dependencies, legacy environments or operational technology.
Commercial judgement to qualify opportunities, shape proportionate responses and maintain a clear route from client need to delivery.
Leadership capability expected of a Managing Consultant, including developing others, mobilising expertise and taking responsibility for client-outcome quality.
Ability to collaborate across organisational boundaries and create an effective team around an opportunity or engagement.

Nice To Haves

Experience working in or with a senior security, resilience, technology or critical-infrastructure role.
Consulting experience combined with time in industry.
Experience of cryptographic readiness, crypto-agility, trust architecture or technology migration.
Experience with critical-infrastructure cyber security across IT and operational technology.
Experience working with engineering, infrastructure or technology partners.
Experience creating assessments, strategies, roadmaps or transformation programmes that lead to implementation.
An established network within the US Energy/Utilities or Transport market.
Direct cryptography or specialist delivery experience.

Responsibilities

Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders in US Utilities and/or Transport organisations.
Bring sector insight to discussions about cyber security, resilience, critical infrastructure and emerging technology risk.
Identify and shape client opportunities from initial conversations through qualification, proposal and delivery.
Contribute to growth of the US Digital Trust & Cyber Security business, including opportunities arising through PA’s collaboration with Jacobs.
Help clients assess the relevance of post-quantum cryptography to their organisation, critical services, technology estate and supply chain.
Shape and lead PQC-readiness work, including executive briefings, readiness assessments, prioritisation, roadmaps and follow-on activity.
Apply security-architecture thinking to cryptographic assets, trust relationships, technology and supplier dependencies, and migration sequencing.
Connect sector, business and operational context with specialist cryptography, security architecture, OT, resilience and transformation expertise across PA and Jacobs.
Provide senior oversight of delivery to maintain focus on client outcomes, quality and practical recommendations.
Lead consulting teams and establish clear roles for specialist, delivery and junior colleagues.
Contribute to propositions, market perspectives and reusable approaches that support client engagement and commercial opportunity.
Support account and pursuit teams with sector insight, qualification, solution shaping, proposals and senior client discussions.
Develop colleagues and help build a sustainable US capability in critical-infrastructure cyber security and PQC.