Project Manager -Cyber Security Domain Experience

Role & responsibilities

Job Summary:

This role is responsible for developing, validating, implementing, and managing project plans to ensure that the projects are completed to the satisfaction of the clients and also managing the pipeline and execution of projects and portfolios for client programs with both internal and external integration points. Project Managers II ensure that the costs, timelines, specifications, and all regulatory compliances are met while delivering the project. They serve as liaison between the Clients, partners, IT teams, and other stakeholders coordinating, planning, and documenting project managing initiatives. They manage analytical design of one or more components of the overall project and project management experience to deliver key strategic initiatives and critical program(s)/project(s) within the constraints of scope, quality, time, and budget. They also ensure continual and proper compliance with all division, corporate, and government regulatory requirements.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

Develops, refines, validates and manages project plans to ensure on time and on budget delivery of major technology initiatives across the enterprise.

Responsible for utilizing project management methods, standards, project integration as well as the coordination of all internal and external resources required to complete assigned projects.

Provides timely and concise communications to functional leadership regarding project status and pending issues; analyzes processes and makes recommendations for optimizing resources and product delivery.

Develops project plans based on specifications provided by the Portfolio Management staff and manages effective execution of the initiatives.

Builds consensus among multiple process leads relative to project scope, task execution, staffing and issue resolution.

Sourcing with vendors on behalf of the business area represented.

Provides overall financial direction for the projects to manage the development of budgets, controls and measurements to monitor project progress.

Identifies potential risks within the project; proactively manages issues.

Participates in identifying project costs, resource allocation, project schedule changes and issue escalation.

Frequently interacts with staff including business area management, portfolio managers, vendors, consultants and other contractors.

Performs related duties as assigned.

Develop and maintain a productive working relationship with both internal and external team members including executive business owners, product managers and vendors.

Conduct formal review with business sponsor at project completion to confirm acceptance and satisfaction to track and measure client satisfaction levels and make and implement recommendation.

Resource and Capacity Management

Educational Qualifications:

Education:

Bachelors degree in information systems or engineering

Certifications:

PMP

Work Experience:

10+ years of IT experience including prior Project Management experience

Experience with Information/Cyber Security projects

Skills and Knowledge:

Behavioral Skills:

Must be a driver and motivator of people

Good interpersonal skills

Excellent relationship building skills

Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.

Good group presentation skills.

Good analytical and problem-solving skills

Good mathematical skills.

Excellent organizational skills.

Excellent leadership skills.

Domain Skills:

Min 1-2 yrs working experience in managing Information/Cyber Security projects/Infrastructure Projects

Technical Skills:

Technical aptitude to work closely with software engineers

Competent understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)

Thorough knowledge of waterfall methodologies on technically complex projects

Strong experience around project financials / budget management and reporting, and resource capacity management.

Nice to have: Agile Scrum experience

Tools Knowledge:

Mandatory - Advanced Excel skills, such as data analysis, pivot tables, lookups.

Nice to Have - Knowledge of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) : Jira / Azure DevOps

Nice to Have - Experience of Project and Portfolio Management tools e.g., Clarity, Open Workbench