We are hiring a Senior Technical Project Manager to support the Cybersecurity Program Offices growing portfolio of security initiatives. This is a senior hands-on role responsible for scoping and driving execution of complex cross functional security initiatives taking direction from ambiguity to an actionable resourced plan. The initial assignment is a cross functional security infrastructure initiative with additional initiatives added to this persons portfolio over time.
Responsibilities
- Lead scoping of assigned security initiatives from directional strategy into an executable plan sequencing dependencies resourcing and concrete milestones.
- For the initial assignment lead scoping of a multi work stream security infrastructure initiative including defining transition criteria for retiring legacy systems and executing planned decommissioning once those criteria are met.
- Own ongoing coordination scheduling and cross team communication across security network engineering end-user computing and cloud operations.
- Serve as a primary point of contact for external technical partners and vendors supporting initiative delivery managing communications and holding delivery accountable to agreed scope timelines and SLAs.
- Maintain real-time visibility into initiative health tracking milestones budget resourcing burn and risk logs and provide executive level status updates to the CPO Leader and key stakeholders.
- Track dependencies risks and open decisions keep documentation current as initiatives evolve
- Partner with technical leads who remain focused on technical design and build rather than day to day coordination and tracking.
Working Style
- Pragmatic reliable and action oriented moves initiatives forward rather than just tracking them.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and evolving dynamics with a structured approach.
- Comfortable working in autonomous self-directed environments with a high degree of ownership.
- Proactive and independent able to initiate and drive full initiatives without close direction.
- Strong cross functional collaborator who builds working relationships inside and outside the organization.
- Able to quickly distill a situation and recommend a course of action to keep delivery moving.
Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience scoping an initiative from directional strategy into an executable plan this is not a pure execution tracking role or equivalent experience.
- 3 to 5 years of technical project management experience including senior or lead level ownership of complex cross functional initiatives or equivalent experience.
- PMP PMIACP CSM or similar certification demonstrating mastery of both Agile and traditional project management methodologies or equivalent experience.
- Strong technical fluency able to genuinely understand the engineering constructs of the initiatives they lead even without a hands-on engineering background themselves.
- Strong cross functional collaboration skills able to work across technical and business stakeholders without close oversight.
- Executive ready communication skills comfortable presenting status and options to senior stakeholders not just peers and translating technical progress into clear value based narratives for nontechnical audiences.
- High level of comfort with project management and collaboration tools such as Smartsheet Google Workspace Jira Confluence and AWS.
- Pragmatic reliable and action oriented working style.