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About the Role

Join our Digital & Data team working alongside product, design and a wide range of other experts and cross-disciplinary teams to bring ideas to life through innovative software solutions. Grow a flexible and unique career within a trust-based, inclusive environment that values excellence, innovation, and curiosity. You have the option to progress with us on a technical career track.

Responsibilities

Architect and design secure OT environments aligned to good practice, global standards and regulation, including IEC 62443 and NIS/NIS2.
Translate cyber risk assessments into target-state architectures, security control designs and pragmatic implementation roadmaps.
Define secure integration patterns between IT and OT environments, including segmentation, access control, monitoring and resilience capabilities.
Lead OT security transformation workstreams, including secure remote access, vulnerability management, protective monitoring and operational resilience.
Advise CISOs, CIOs, operational leaders and engineering teams on OT risk, resilience, regulatory obligations and investment priorities.
Support technology selection, deployment and optimisation while helping clients right-size security controls to minimise operational disruption.
Work to agile best practice and collaborate cross-functionally with multiple teams and stakeholders.
Use technical skills to solve complex client problems, contribute to internal propositions and support the development of reusable tools, playbooks and guidance for our wider cyber community.
Participate in live, in-person whiteboarding sessions to problem solve as a team, alongside asynchronous communication on Teams.

Requirements

Strong professional experience designing and delivering OT security architectures in critical infrastructure, industrial, manufacturing, transport, energy, utilities or similarly complex operational environments.
Deep understanding of industrial control systems, SCADA, OT networks and the operational constraints that shape cyber security decisions in safety-critical environments.
Experience applying recognised frameworks and standards such as IEC 62443, NIST CSF, NCSC CAF, ISO 27001, NIS/NIS2 or related regulatory requirements.
Proven ability to translate cyber risk into practical architecture decisions, control designs, implementation roadmaps and clear stakeholder recommendations.
Thrive in problem-solving and analytical thinking.
Enjoy collaborating with multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced environment, including senior security leaders, engineering teams, operational teams and third parties.
Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical topics clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Some UK roles at PA Consulting require a UK security clearance.
All PA people are required to undergo background checks and to achieve the Baseline Personnel Security Standard.
Some UK roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting, where applicants must have at least 5 years of continuous residency in the UK.
Applicants must meet the residency requirements (i.e. be a British citizen or have been resident in the UK for the past 5 years) for security clearance.

Skills

OT and industrial control systems, including ICS, SCADA and OT network environments.
Security architecture approaches including segmentation, zoning, secure remote access, monitoring, logging and telemetry.
Recognised frameworks and standards such as IEC 62443, NIST CSF, NCSC CAF, ISO 27001, NIS/NIS2 and related regulatory requirements.
OT security tooling and monitoring platforms such as Nozomi, Claroty, Dragos, Microsoft Defender for IoT or similar technologies.
Architecture, modelling and delivery tools used to define target-state designs, roadmaps and implementation plans.

Location

UK
Ireland
US
Netherlands

Work Type

Hybrid working - minimum of 2 days per week in the office or on client site
Client site
Office

Experience Level

Senior

Benefits

Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family
25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
Generous company pension scheme
Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
Annual performance-based bonus
PA share ownership
Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

About the Company

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.
As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.
Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster.
Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.
We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists.
We have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.
Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.
PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Equal Opportunity

We are committed to advancing equality.
We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience.
We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.
Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on [email protected]