Project Manager - Cybersecurity

The Senior Project Manager positions will perform day-to-day management of the project, identify issues and risks, and recommend and implement approved mitigation strategies associated with the project.

Duties/Responsibilities (including, but not limited to the following):

• Provide weekly scope, budget, and schedule status updates on the accomplishments, milestones, tasks, roadblocks, issues, and risks related to each cybersecurity remediation project.
• Lead teams of technical resources to prioritize the delivery of high-quality IT solutions that meet business needs.
• Oversee the development and approval of project plans across all remediation work streams or remediation roadmap areas.
• Ensure alignment between Department of Information Technology priority initiatives, cybersecurity assessment results, work orders, and Statewide Cybersecurity Initiatives.
• Ensure alignment between contractor and staff timesheets, completed work, and deliverables required as defined in both issued work orders and project plans.
• Develop and update project charters, scope statements, and scope management to align work efforts to organizational goals and objectives.
• Develop transition activities and rollout schedules during both pre- and post-implementation.
• Manage work activities to ensure conformity to the project scope, timelines, and budgets.
• Develop performance and quality measures for product management activities and provide tracking and periodic reporting on these measures.
• Motivate the project teams and forge consensus around program goals and objectives.
• Develop and manage budgets and resourcing plans, and track performance against these budgets and resourcing plans.
• Develop and implement communication strategies to improve transparency and promote awareness of program areas and issues.
• Develop written documentation and oral correspondence of outstanding quality.
• Integrate change management and change control practices into the program as required.
• Identify, track, manage, and reduce the impact of risks and issues.
• Manage vendor relationships to ensure high levels of quality deliverables and performance.
• Meet legal, regulatory, and policy mandates.

Experience:

• At least Ten (10) years of experience in project management.
• At least two (5) years of experience designing, developing, and implementing ITSM processes, services, and capabilities (e.g., Incident, Change, CMDB).
• At least five (5) years of experience managing IT-related projects and must demonstrate a leadership role in at least three (3) successful projects that were delivered on time and on budget.
• At least five (5) years of experience implementing or managing cybersecurity-related projects.
• At least two (2) years of experience implementing Identity and Access Management (IAM) technologies.

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