Cybersecurity Associate Director

Job Family:

Cyber Consulting

Travel Required:

Up to 10%

Clearance Required:

Active Secret As a Cybersecurity Associate Director, you will lead high-impact federal cybersecurity engagements, serve as a trusted advisor to government stakeholders, and help agencies to strengthen cyber resilience in an increasingly complex threat environment. This role combines cybersecurity expertise, client leadership, business development participation, and team mentorship to deliver mission-focused outcomes while preparing for future practice leadership opportunities.

This exciting role combines deep expertise in cyber governance, risk management, and compliance with engagement leadership, business development, and stakeholder engagement skills. You will be positioned to develop Director-level business development and account growth skills through partnership with senior practice leaders.

The key focus will be to deliver on four main functions:
1.
Lead medium to large (15-40 FTEs) cybersecurity engagements, ensuring alignment with EO 14028, OMB guidance, CISA directives, and NIST frameworks.
2.
Support growth of cybersecurity offerings through proposal development, solution shaping, client relationship management, and opportunity identification.
3.
Oversee delivery of large cybersecurity engagements, ensuring quality, scalability, and adherence to federal cybersecurity standards.
4.
Contribute to thought leadership initiatives through publications, conference participation, solution development, and industry engagement.

What you will do:

Lead strategic client engagements and contribute to enterprise cybersecurity transformation initiatives.

Serve as a trusted advisor to federal cybersecurity leaders and program executives. Help agencies strengthen resilience against nation-state threats, modernize security operations, and advance Zero Trust objectives.

Contribute to development of emerging cybersecurity offerings in areas such as AI security, cyber resilience, Zero Trust, cloud security, and data protection.

Integrate Zero Trust principles into enterprise services and guide system adoption in accordance with NIST SP 800-207, CISA,  DOW and IC frameworks and approaches for Zero Trust Maturity Model into engagements, and potential new work.

Build and maintain trusted client relationships that identify opportunities for expanded mission support.

Contribute to practice growth through business development support, proposal development, client engagement, and innovative cybersecurity solutions that address mission risk through AI-enabled controls, analytics, and automation.

Work across cybersecurity, data, technology modernization, and AI teams to deliver integrated client solutions.

Lead and mentor multidisciplinary project teams while fostering professional growth, technical excellence, knowledge sharing, and a collaborative culture of innovation.

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

Ability to influence an AI first, data-driven mindset and foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and best practices.

Demonstrated business development activities through proposal development, client relationship management, solution shaping, and opportunity identification.

Demonstrated ability to lead medium to large, multidisciplinary teams and deliver complex cybersecurity programs.
· Strong communication skills for engaging audiences from C-Suite executives to technical specialists.

What You Will Need:

An ACTIVE and CURRENT SECRET (or higher) federal security clearance.

Twelve (12+) years of experience in cybersecurity risk management and governance, INCLUDING THREE (3) years in leadership or supervisory roles.

Deep understanding of federal cybersecurity, privacy, risk management, and digital modernization initiatives.

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