Security Lead, Risk, Compliance, and Governance Domain Senior Manager
Deloitte US · Rosslyn, United States · 1d ago
Our Deloitte Regulatory, Risk & Forensic team helps client leaders translate multifaceted risk and an evolving regulatory environment into defensible actions that strengthen, protect, and transform their organization. Join our team and use advanced data, AI, and emerging technologies with industry insights to help clients bring clarity from complexity and accelerate their path to value creation.
Work You’ll Do
As a Risk, Compliance, and Governance Domain Senior Manager you will lead and contribute in the following areas:
- Team Leadership & Task Management: Supervise a team of 10–15 Personnel and Physical Security Specialists.
- Manage schedules, workloads, performance reviews, and ensure all contract deliverables and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are met.
- Client Advisement & Close Support: Act as the primary Subject Matter Expert (SME) for government clients.
- Provide daily, on-site consultative support, briefing senior leadership on security posture, risk mitigation, and operational bottlenecks.
- Personnel Security (PERSEC) Oversight: Oversee the end-to-end clearance processing lifecycle.
- Resolve complex crossover issues, direct continuous vetting workflows, and ensure the team accurately utilizes Scattered Castles, DISS, and internal databases.
- Physical Security (PHYSEC) Oversight: Direct the processing and validation of Visitor Access Requests (VARs), badge issuance, and access control.
- Ensure all SCIF entry/exit protocols and standard operating procedures (SOPs) are flawlessly executed.
- Process Improvement: Identify workflow inefficiencies across both PERSEC and PHYSEC domains.
- Design and implement new SOPs to accelerate clearance processing and streamline visitor control operations.
- Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
- Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
- Ability to lead projects or workstreams
- Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
- Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Ability to mentor and provide clear guidance to others
The Team
Deloitte’s Government & Public Services (GPS) practice – our people, ideas, technology and outcomes – is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.
Our Forensic, Discovery, & Financial Crime offering provides services to support anti-money laundering, discovery, business disputes and investigations. Protect brands from financial crime and other corporate misconduct, as well as enable government organizations with tradecraft & technology to combat emerging and evolving threats.
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree.
- 8+ years of experience in Personnel Security or Physical Security oversight.
- 3+ years of experience leading or supervising a team in a security management environment.
- Active TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance required.
- Ability to perform job responsibilities within a work model that requires professionals to co-locate in person 5 days per week in Bethesda, MD and McLean, VA.
- Ability to travel 5-50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
Preferred:
- Experience designing and implementing operating procedures in security clearance processing and visitor control operations
- Experience with security controls assessments, security governance, or security policies, procedures and standards