Project Manager: Security Services
Responsibilities
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Act as engagement lead on customer engagements
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Communicate project roles and responsibilities to project team members while planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing project objectives.
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Enforce policies and procedures for each project
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Achieve operational objectives by:
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Contributing information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews
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Preparing and completing action plans
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Implementing production, productivity, quality, and client-service standards
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Resolving problems
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Determining system improvements
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Implementing change
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Meet financial objectives by forecasting requirements, quoting services, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective actions.
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Lead delivery of cybersecurity projects in identity, access, and data protection domains, including assessments, design, implementation, migration, remediation, and operationalization efforts.
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Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, and participating in professional organizations.
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Coordinate project execution across consultants, architects, engineers, customer stakeholders, and partner vendors to ensure delivery quality, milestone attainment, and issue resolution.
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Manage RAID logs, project dependencies, change control, decision tracking, and executive status reporting for security engagements.
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Drive client governance cadences, including kickoff sessions, status meetings, risk reviews, steering updates, and acceptance/sign-off checkpoints.
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Ensure projects follow repeatable delivery standards, documentation requirements, evidence collection expectations, and quality gates.
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Partner with technical leads to align delivery plans to security controls, testing, cutover, validation, and post-implementation support needs.
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Manage multiple concurrent security engagements and shared resources across pods or workstreams while maintaining schedule and risk governance.
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Enhance departmental and organizational reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests while exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
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Develop budgets and track budget expenses.
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Provide performance management feedback for project aligned resources based on project observations.
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Staff projects appropriately and supervise team members.
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Manage team members in a proficient and effective manner
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Promote process improvement.
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Must pursue professional self-development opportunities on a regular basis.
Requirements
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3-5 years of prior project management and planning experience.
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Possess excellent organizational, presentation, analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
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Strong ability to manage client expectations including in areas of scope, schedule, budget, and satisfaction.
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Able to work both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
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Experience managing cybersecurity, IAM, or data security projects in consulting, professional services, or enterprise IT environments.
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Working knowledge of security delivery lifecycles, including assessment, design, implementation, testing, remediation, cutover, and transition to operations.
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Familiarity with Cloud security concepts including CNAPP, CWPP, and DSPM; and public cloud hypervisors including AWS, Azure, and GCP.
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Familiarity with identity security concepts such as IAM, IGA, PAM, MFA, SSO, federation, RBAC, SoD, service accounts, and secrets management.
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Familiarity with data security concepts such as data discovery, classification, labeling, DSPM, DLP, retention, insider risk, and governance.
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Ability to manage technical and business stakeholders through security risk, compliance, and control-related decisions.
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Experience creating executive-ready status reporting, action plans, issue escalations, and customer-facing documentation.
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Preferred: PMP, CSM, ITIL, Security+, CISSP familiarity, or equivalent security/project delivery credentials.
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