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Digital Forensics and Incident Response, Senior Manager
The Opportunity:
Serve as a member of the Digital Forensics and Incident Response leadership team, responsible for the strategic direction, operational performance, client delivery, and continued growth of multiple incident response teams. Oversee complex digital forensic investigations and cybersecurity incident response engagements, ensuring investigations are conducted effectively, consistently, and in alignment with client, legal, regulatory, and business requirements. Serve as a senior advisor during high-severity incidents and communicate with client executives, legal counsel, cyber insurance carriers, regulators, and other key stakeholders. Lead and develop team leads and senior personnel, including responsibility for career management, employee development, performance management, and disciplinary actions. Promote a culture of accountability, collaboration, technical excellence, and strong client service. Maintain and strengthen relationships with cyber insurance carriers, insurance brokers, breach counsel, law firms, and corporate clients. Support new business opportunities, help expand existing relationships, and contribute to the continued growth of the DFIR practice. Oversee the performance and operations of two or more incident response teams, including team leads and senior technical personnel. Maintain DFIR policies, standards, procedures, investigative methodologies, and documentation requirements. Provide senior level oversight for high-severity cybersecurity incidents and complex forensic investigations. Serve as the senior escalation point for major incidents, sensitive matters, client concerns, and investigative decisions. Review significant findings, investigative reports, executive briefings, timelines, and client deliverables. Communicate material findings, risks, limitations, and recommendations to executive, legal, technical, and non-technical audiences. Provide career management, employee development, performance feedback, and professional coaching. Address performance and conduct concerns, including corrective and disciplinary actions in coordination with Human Resources and executive leadership. Contribute to revenue, pipeline, account growth, and broader practice-development objectives. Collaborate with Legal, Human Resources, Privacy, Compliance, and Risk teams during sensitive investigations. Ensure investigative activities comply with applicable legal, privacy, contractual, and regulatory requirements. Identify opportunities to improve investigative processes, automation, service offerings, and technical capabilities. Represent the organization at client meetings, industry events, conferences, and other market-facing activities.
You Have:

• 7+ years of experience in digital forensics, incident response, cybersecurity investigations, or cyber risk
• 3+ years of experience leading incident response teams or forensic investigation teams
• Experience managing multiple teams, team leads, senior technical personnel, or a geographically distributed workforce
• Experience leading complex cybersecurity incidents involving executive, legal, insurance, or regulatory stakeholders and serving as a senior advisor during ransomware, data breach, business email compromise, or insider threat
• Experience with employee development, career management, performance management, and disciplinary actions
• Experience developing and maintaining client relationships within the cyber insurance, legal, incident response, or cybersecurity markets
• Knowledge of digital forensic methodologies, evidence preservation, chain of custody, investigative documentation, and defensible reporting
• Ability to identify new opportunities, expand client relationships, contribute to business growth, and communicate technical findings and business risks to executives, boards, legal counsel, insurers, and other senior stakeholders
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time and work outside standard business hours as required
• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Business Administration, or Digital Forensics

Nice If You Have:

• Experience building or expanding a digital forensics or incident response practice
• Experience working with cyber insurance carriers, claims teams, insurance brokers, breach counsel, and insured organizations
• Experience with pipeline management, utilization, profitability, and engagement economics
• Experience negotiating statements of work, master services agreements, retainers, pricing structures, or preferred-provider arrangements
• Experience developing thought leadership, executive briefings, conference presentations, or market-facing content
• Ability to demonstrate client relationships and develop and grow a portfolio of business
• Master's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Business Administration, Digital Forensics, or a related field
• CISSP, CISM, GCFA, GCIH, GREM, GNFA, EnCE, CFCE, CCE, or a comparable certification

Compensation
At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen's benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.
Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual's particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $142,900.00 to $266,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen's total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.
Identity Statement
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.
Candidate AI Usage Policy
AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on your own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.
Work Model
Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration, whether it occurs in person or virtually. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.

• Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
• Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen facility frequently, in alignment with leadership expectations and the needs of the role. You may also be required to work from or visit a customer facility.
• Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.
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