Responsibilities

• Act as engagement lead on customer engagements

• 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.

• Lead 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.

• Drive 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 feedbackfor project aligned resources based on project observations.

• Staff projects appropriately and supervise team members.

• Manage 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 ofprior project management and planning experience.

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

• Strong ability to manage client 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 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.