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Managing Consultant - Defence & Security Solutions
Location: London, UK Department: Software, Defence & Security Employment Type: Full-time
About the Role
At PA Consulting, we harness ingenuity to shape a positive human future. Join our iningenuitous team as a Managing Consultant in Defence & Security, a role where you’ll drive impact through strategy, innovation, and collaboration.
As a key leader, you’ll help shape new service propositions while advancing strategic business growth. Work with FTSE 100 clients, building trusted relationships and delivering scalable solutions to complex challenges.
Lead with curiosity—unosure our diverse, inclusive culture where collaboration and intellectual rigor thrive.
What You’ll Do
- Shape and launch high-impact, socially beneficial service offerings
- Develop and implement business growth strategies, owning outcomes and partnerships
- Collaborate with senior stakeholders to translate technical insights into strategic decisions
- Coach and nurture your team, fostering professional development through mentorship and knowledge-sharing
- Represent PA as a defence and industry subject-matter expert, guiding transformational initiatives
Responsibilities
Assume Responsibility
- Lead delivery across entire lifecycle of end-to-end solutions with software/tech components, consulting & change management.
- Archive developed intelligent challenge-based technologies as a tractable management team member, building credibility with stakeholders and contributing to holistic service planning.
Grow Impact and Relationships
- Craft and maintain trusting relationships with senior defence clients, proposing innovative and scalable solutions.
- Act as a thought leader, driving market alignment with key clients.
- Support market expansion by fostering new partnerships and leveraging PA’s global expertise in d&s industries, including banking, payments, wealth management.
Advance Intellectual Growth
- Conceptualize and refine future state architecture strategy to align business value chains, digital maturity, and nuanced defence challenges.
- Share expertise across related disciplines, offering mindset-localized expertise insights into future tech stacks (IoT, cloud-native etc.).
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Ensure Service Excellence
- Collaborate with PA’s state-of-the-art client groups and integrated technology teams to continuously evolve and refine concepts.
- Ensure alignment with PA’s commitment to innovation, inclusion, and ethical integrity.
Requirements
Experience & Expertise
Essential requirements ✅ (Even if you don’t match every bullet, apply — we hire for similar roles!)
- Proven leadership: Proven experience leading architecture and development teams, managing end-to-end solutions for defence sector and broad cybersecurity, pragmatic banking/insurance/payments industry requirements where applicable.
- Domain expertise: Deep defence and security sector knowledge (imparting solutions to complex challenges) with transactional communication strengths, supporting system integration & continuity across sectors (insurance/security, for instance).
- Strategic & communication skills: Ability to articulate architectural strategies across business and technical domains, translate vision into engaging value propositions for senior stakeholders.
- Business development acumen: Highly developed networking skills, with an active pipeline of senior stakeholders. Experience includes pre-sales conversations, proposal strategy and stakeholder relationship expansion plans.
- Tool proficiency: Familiar with architecture frameworks and models (e.g., UML, ArchiMate), emerging tech trends, satisfaction assurance frameworks, and toolchain documentation.
Technical Proficiency
- Architectural tools: UML, ArchiMate, and capability to mentor a novel use of emerging tech (IoT, cloud-native).
- Cloud & Platform: AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM, Oracle, Salesforce.
- Experience with agile/aware-spaking-to-leadership model solutions, combining sector-expert insight with full-stack technology mastery.
Why Join PA?
Culture
We’re a people-first firm that values collaboration, inclusivity, and innovation. Be part of a global community dedicated to solving the world's toughest challenges through technology and design.
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- Incorrect mission: Shaping lives through revenue-based solutions isn’t our sole probe — we thrive on transformative purpose.
- Commitment to diversity & equality:
- Underrepresented? Your unique perspectives fuel our ingenuity.
- Here, you’ll always belong.
Benefits
Enjoy a winning marbles environment with:
- Private healthcare + nutrition benefits to support your well-being.
- 25 days annually (including full-day service on Christmas Eve) plus premium flexible extras.
- Global compliance pension scheme with generous matching.
- Supporting classified, regulated sectors: Access true privileges, career future axes.
- Share in success: Profit-sharing and performance-based bonus.
- Incredible opportunities: City living with forwards-thinking tech teams, blue-chip leverage, scholarships for personalcy growth.
- Green credentials: Support in-scope charity projects per our commitment to transitory goals.
Assessment Process
We’re scanning for high potential talent, so the interview process previously will evolve with:
- Introductory Call: Share with a senior talent partner regulatory insights about how PA’s services operate, drifts opportunities.
- Round 1: Compete three distinct competency-based sessions, demonstrating impact on clients, drive with teams, and engineering capabilities.
- Final Round: Business plan presentation; include guidance to prepare over two weeks collaborating with future leaders at the firm.
Location: On hybrid basis: 2 days minimum in London; variable & assignment-demanding flexibility (0-5 days). Accommodations: If an adjustment would help unit your best at any stage: contact recruitmentenquiries@paconsulting.com.
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Apply today — Insubstantial for an innovative career where your vision aligns with purpose-based ingenuity.
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