IT Security Project Manager - hybrid

US Tech Solutions - Quincy, MA

Full-time

Quincy, MA

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The position involves managing technical projects by engaging with stakeholders to define project expectations, goals, and deliverables. The role requires collaboration with both business and IT resources to develop comprehensive project plans and ensure successful execution of activities according to defined requirements. The candidate will also be responsible for monitoring project progress, managing documentation, and ensuring compliance with security policies.

Responsibilities

• Engage with stakeholders to identify project expectations, goals, and outcomes to determine project scope, objectives, and deliverables.
• Conduct meetings with business areas to establish a mutual understanding of engagement objectives, timeline, roles, and deliverables.
• Collaborate with both business stakeholders and IT resources to develop comprehensive project plans with detailed milestones and activities outlining tasks, timelines, resources, and requirements.
• Coordinate with both internal and external stakeholders on the execution of activities according to project defined requirements.
• Liaise with the vendor as a key Point of Contact (POC) to facilitate business responses to vendor questions in a timely fashion.
• Assist business and technical leads in the priorities that lead to the successful completion of requirements.
• Monitor results against established timelines, deliverables, tasks, dependencies and associated technical specifications.
• Assume Responsibility for overall coordination, facilitation, and aggregation of status reporting and health of the project, including keeping all levels of management appraised of project status.
• Lead the tracking and follow-up of risks, issues, and constraints and escalate where appropriate.
• Manage and maintain project documentation, ensuring that documentation is collected, version controlled, and available upon request.
• Maintain the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data across the organization.
• Ensure compliance with Security, and departmental policies, guidelines, and objectives.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in technical project management.
• Strong operational and project management skills, including PMI and Agile project management experience in all software development lifecycle methodologies.
• Able to foster a collaborative work environment and demonstrate excellent leadership skills.
• Possess prior experience in Security and/or Compliance with some familiarity with NIST Risk Management, FIPS 199, 200, NIST 800-53 Security and Privacy Controls, NIST 800-60 Mapping Types of Information and Information Systems to Security Categories.
• Possess strong organizational, presentation and customer service skills.
• Possess excellent problem-solving and team collaboration skills as required in project environments.