Managing Consultant - Digital Trust and Cyber Security

PA Consulting•Denver, CO

About The Position

PA is seeking a Managing Consultant to grow and deliver its Digital Trust & Cyber Security work in the United States, with relevant market experience in Utilities, Energy, or Transport. The role applies sector insight to cyber security, resilience, critical infrastructure, and emerging technology risks affecting complex and operationally critical services. The consultant will work with senior clients to understand priorities, shape opportunities, and turn risks into practical action. 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. The role combines market development, senior client engagement, commercial contribution, consulting delivery, and team leadership. The consultant will work across PA, US go-to-market teams, and Jacobs, and is expected to align with PA’s Digital & Data stream while supporting the wider Digital Trust & Cyber Security and Jacobs growth agenda. The position includes shaping and leading PQC-readiness work such as executive briefings, assessments, prioritization, and roadmaps; applying security-architecture thinking to cryptographic assets, trust relationships, technology, and supplier dependencies; and connecting sector and operational context with specialist expertise across PA and Jacobs. The Managing Consultant will oversee delivery, lead and develop teams, support pursuits, and contribute to propositions and repeatable capabilities that meet client needs and support commercial growth.

Requirements

Significant professional experience in Energy, Utilities, or Transport, gained in consulting, industry, or both.
Familiarity with relevant industry frameworks, such as 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. Examples include OT/ICS cybersecurity, Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), CISA, or GIAC.
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 judgment to qualify opportunities, shape proportionate responses, and maintain a clear path from client need to delivery.
Leadership capability appropriate to a Managing Consultant, including developing others, mobilizing expertise, and taking responsibility for client-outcome quality.
Ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries and build effective teams around opportunities or engagements.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders in US Utilities and/or Transport organizations.
Apply practical 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 organization, critical services, technology estate, and supply chain.
Shape and lead PQC-readiness work, including executive briefings, readiness assessments, prioritization, roadmaps, and follow-on activity.
Apply security-architecture thinking to cryptographic assets, trust relationships, technology and supplier dependencies, and migration sequencing.
Coordinate sector, business, and operational context with specialist cryptography, security architecture, OT, resilience, and transformation expertise across PA and Jacobs.
Provide senior oversight of delivery, keeping teams focused 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 opportunities.
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.