A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Security Consultant, you specialize in implementing security solutions for clients and stakeholders while addressing security, regulatory, risk, and compliance issues. You maintain a current understanding of industry trends and hold multiple certifications in key cyber security areas. Your primary responsibilities will include: • Implement Security Solutions: Deliver security initiatives and projects that address client needs and ensure the achievement of business objectives. This involves collaborating with stakeholders to identify and mitigate risks. • Develop Mitigation Plans: Identify potential security risks and create effective mitigation plans to minimize their impact. This requires staying up-to-date with industry trends and leveraging expertise in key cyber security areas. • Define Security Strategies: Develop business-driven security strategies and roadmaps that align with client goals and objectives. This involves communicating effectively with stakeholders to ensure successful implementation. • Collaborate with Stakeholders: Work closely with clients and internal stakeholders to ensure the successful implementation of security initiatives and achievement of business objectives. • Maintain Industry Knowledge: Stay current with industry trends and maintain multiple certifications in key cyber security areas to provide expert guidance and advice.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Tool Expertise: Experience in Safe Security (TPRM module) for vendor risk quantification and monitoring.
Risk Management: Proven track record in third-party risk lifecycles: tiering, assessment, and automated risk scoring.
Frameworks: Strong knowledge of ISO 27001, NIST CSF, and NIST 800-53 applied to supply chains.
Compliance: Expertise in PCI-DSS, GDPR, and SOX within third-party environments.
Implementation: Experience in functional rollout of GRC/TPRM tools, including API integrations and dashboard configuration.
Analysis: Ability to translate technical findings into financial risk impact (Cyber Risk Quantification).

Preferred technical and professional experience

Certifications: Safe Security Certified Professional, CRISC, CISM, or CISA.
Technical: Experience with outside-in scanning tools and integrating Safe Security with Jira or ServiceNow.
Data Skills: Proficiency in automating reports and risk heatmaps.
Industry Experience: Background in Aviation or Financial sectors managing high-volume vendor portfolios.
Soft Skills: Excellent executive communication to present "Safe Scores" and remediation plans to C-level stakeholders.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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