Project Manager, Security

Responsibilities:

• Communicate project roles and responsibilities to project team members while planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing project objectives. 

• Enforce policies and procedures for each project 

• Achieve operational objectives by: 

• Contributing information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews 

• Preparing and completing action plans 

• Implementing production, productivity, quality, and client-service standards 

• Resolving problems 

• Determining system improvements 

• Implementing change 

• Meet financial objectives by forecasting requirements, quoting services, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective actions. 

• Support delivery of cybersecurity projects in identity, access, and data protection domains, including assessments, design, implementation, migration, remediation, and operationalization efforts. 

• Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, and participating in professional organizations. 

• Coordinate project execution across consultants, architects, engineers, customer stakeholders, and partner vendors to ensure delivery quality, milestone attainment, and issue resolution. 

• Manage RAID logs, project dependencies, change control, decision tracking, and executive status reporting for security engagements. 

• Support client governance cadences, including kickoff sessions, status meetings, risk reviews, steering updates, and acceptance/sign-off checkpoints. 

• Ensure projects follow repeatable delivery standards, documentation requirements, evidence collection expectations, and quality gates. 

• Partner with technical leads to align delivery plans to security controls, testing, cutover, validation, and post-implementation support needs. 

• Manage multiple concurrent security engagements and shared resources across pods or workstreams while maintaining schedule and risk governance. 

• Enhance departmental and organizational reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests while exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments. 

• Develop budgets and track budget expenses. 

• Provide performance management feedback for project aligned resources based on project observations. 

• Support team members in a proficient and effective manner 

• Promote process improvement. 

• Must pursue professional self-development opportunities on a regular basis. 

Requirements:

• 3-5 years of prior project management and planning experience. 

• Possess excellent organizational, presentation, analytical, written, and verbal communication skills. 

• Strong ability to manage expectations including in areas of scope, schedule, budget, and satisfaction. 

• Able to work both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment. 

• Experience managing cybersecurity, IAM, or data security projects in consulting, professional services, or enterprise IT environments. 

• Working knowledge of security delivery lifecycles, including assessment, design, implementation, testing, remediation, cutover, and transition to operations. 

• Familiarity with Cloud security concepts including CNAPP, CWPP, and DSPM; and public cloud hypervisors including AWS, Azure, and GCP. 

• Familiarity with identity security concepts such as IAM, IGA, PAM, MFA, SSO, federation, RBAC, SoD, service accounts, and secrets management. 

• Familiarity with data security concepts such as data discovery, classification, labeling, DSPM, DLP, retention, insider risk, and governance. 

• Ability to manage technical and business stakeholders through security risk, compliance, and control-related decisions. 

• Experience creating executive-ready status reporting, action plans, issue escalations, and customer-facing documentation. 

• Preferred: PMP, CSM, ITIL, Security+, CISSP familiarity, or equivalent security/project delivery credentials.