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Cyber security is critical to every organisation. We are designing and building solutions to help secure some of the largest financial services organisations, and we need you to join us. You’ll build strong relationships as one of the areas of our cyber practice with over 450 extremely talented individuals in the UK alone, as part of a Technology and Transformation practice of 7,500 people. Join us and you will help our clients solve the latest cyber security challenges, in a business with very significant growth ambitions enjoying the kind of professional development that will set your potential free.
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Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
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We are a team of cyber and technology resilience professionals working within the wider Deloitte Technology and Transformation practice, helping our clients to withstand and recover from disruptions. We deliver projects to uplift capabilities, work with organisations to meet regulatory requirements, develop operating models and programme roadmaps, and prepare organisations to be resilient against a wide range of risks and threats.
As a Cyber and Technology Resilience Strategist within Deloitte's Cyber practice, you will play a pivotal role in advising our clients on uplifting their cyber and technology resilience capabilities. You will leverage technical expertise and strategic insight to provide guidance, input and leadership as they build robust resilience solutions, across a specific client industry (either financial services or a corporates subsector, i.e. TMT, Consumer, ER&I, or LSHC).
Your responsibilities will evolve with your grade, encompassing a blend of resilience advisory, client engagement, business development, and internal practice development. As a Cyber Resilience Strategist, you will be primarily advising clients around the following five key solutions:
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Advanced enterprise-wide backup and recovery solutions
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Automated failover and recovery
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Resilient cloud based architecture and design (multi-region, multi-cloud, cloud native, DRaaS)
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Data centre architecture, engineering and supporting technologies
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ZTNA Networks
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Container, Cluster and Load Balancing
For each of these solutions, specific projects are likely to include:
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Evaluation of datacentres, cloud environments, and network architecture from a resilience and recoverability perspective, identifying single points of failure, failover strategies, or latency risks
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Lead the detailed gathering and analysis of client business and technical requirements to define comprehensive cyber resilience strategies
- Performing capability assessments against resilience good practice frameworks and target state definition for resilience uplift projects, including roadmap development and prioritisation
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Defining cyber resilience and recovery strategies to enable recovery of minimum viable businesses from cyber disruptions, utilising resilient backup technologies (isolated, immutable, intelligent, etc)
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Delivering resilient migration strategies for clients e.g. datacentre migrations and cloud migrations, ensuring business continuity and operational resilience
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Designing resilient operating model frameworks for IT service management to embed new technologies within a client’s existing IT operating environment
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Documenting, exercising and testing cyber recovery processes e.g. application rebuild from backup, end-to-end business service recovery, bare metal restore of foundational infrastructure and tooling
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Supporting client regulatory compliance and response for new and evolving requirements and good practice, e.g. through benchmarking exercises
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Additionally, the following general responsibilities encompassing business and practice development are anticipated:
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Client relationship development and networking, including both building on existing relationships and developing new relationships within or outside of client engagements
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Producing materials for client and internal purpose, e.g. eminence activities, go to market plans, client proposals, client deliverables, executive presentations
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Working with alliance partnerships to create a pipeline of work, and deliver against that pipeline
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Leading proposals for client work and driving the sale through to completion including contracting and risk management
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Leading client engagements for financial services or corporates (TMT, ER&I, LSHC or Consumer focus) clients, often balancing multiple projects at once alongside side of desk activity
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Delivering projects in complex and time-pressured circumstances, adhering to standard project management approaches
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Contributing to the eminence of the Deloitte Cyber and Technology Resilience team
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Supporting and promoting team culture, development and talent
Connect to your skills and professional experience
Successful applicants typically have a degree or equivalent experience, with real world experience working in cyber and / or technology resilience. They are agile thinkers capable of helping stakeholders manage a range of security challenges.
Key skills – not every candidate requires all of these but should be familiar and/or have experience with a majority of these:
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Knowledge and hands on experience working with a variety of backup technologies, replication services, and resilience solution providers (e.g. Commvault, Dell Technologies, Rubrik)
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Demonstrable experience of designing and implementing cloud resilient architectures and key characteristics / services across Cloud Service Providers (AWS, Google, Azure)
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Familiarity working with standard datacentre stack components (Mainframe knowledge is a bonus but not required), and understanding of common pain points for resilience / stability
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Working knowledge of resilience standards and frameworks and how these can be utilised by clients to embed resilience
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Building strong client relationships, in particular within engagement delivery, and the ability to grow and build client relationships outside of delivery
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Long standing resilience and financial services OR corporates (TMT, ER&I, LSHC or Consumer focus) industry experience with a solid knowledge of resilience across specific industries, and network of relationships across clients
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Solid capability to produce client friendly materials, presenting complex ideas simply and professionally across a range of artefacts from proposals to solution documentation
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Ability to understand client problems and issues and develop a proposal for how we can support
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Commercial capability to develop proposals, produce cost estimates, propose compelling commercial offers and present well to clients
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Strong project management skills and experience, particularly the ability to drive activity in complex environments and under time pressure
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Ability to navigate difficult, complex, and unfamiliar client processes in addition to other commitments
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Capability to communicate cyber and technology resilience issues to a variety of stakeholders up to Board level, covering both business and technical lenses to any given problem or topic
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Experience leading technical delivery of resilience solutions from requirements definition to embed and test, for the solutions listed above
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Mainframe experience / knowledge is a bonus but not required
Qualifications:
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Cyber certifications, such as cloud service provider certificates (AWS, Azure or Google), and other relevant certifications (e.g. UK CSC, CIISec, SABSA, TOGAF, CISSP, CCSP, CISM, CISA) may be valuable but are not essential
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Certifications in project management or related domains (e.g. PRINCE2, ITIL, COBIT5) may be valuable but are not essential
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Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, innovation and collaborative working. That’s what connects us. That’s what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest tech and transformational challenges around, join us. Together, we’ll make an impact that matters.
Cyber
The modern world is more complex than ever before, and we are navigating an ever-changing landscape. We help clients to operate with resilience and grow with confidence to secure success and minimise risk.
Personal independence
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.
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“At Deloitte you’re surrounded by subject matter experts; industry experts, technology experts, and you can access that knowledge whenever you need to.” -Christian, Technology and Transformation
"We have a great culture, and the number of opportunities here mean you can develop as an individual in the direction that suits you best." -Gurpal, Technology and Transformation
Our hybrid working policy
You’ll be based in London with hybrid working.
At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.
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Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?
For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.
Our commitment to you
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.
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A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.
Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers
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