Job Summary
The Cybersecurity Project Manager will lead and coordinate cybersecurity initiatives, with a primary focus on Identity and Access Management (IAM), penetration testing, detection engineering, security integrations, and remediation activities. The role requires a strong cybersecurity background combined with hands-on project and program management experience. The ideal candidate understands the technical and business context of security findings, can track remediation through closure, and can manage multiple concurrent projects while adapting to changing priorities and organizational needs.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead the delivery of cybersecurity initiatives involving IAM, SailPoint, SAP GRC, penetration testing, integration security, monitoring, and platform security.
• Manage project scope, schedules, budgets, risks, dependencies, remediation activities, and governance requirements.
• Coordinate cybersecurity, SAP, infrastructure, architecture, audit, vendor, and business stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery.
• Drive the execution of security assessments, penetration testing, remediation activities, and go-live readiness initiatives.
• Manage multiple concurrent cybersecurity projects and support project recovery efforts as priorities change.
• Gather, analyze, and document business, technical, and cybersecurity requirements.
• Coordinate security reviews, control validations, penetration testing, and security readiness assessments.
• Track security findings, remediation actions, risk acceptances, security approvals, and readiness status through completion and closure.
• Support security reviews of integrations, including identifying control gaps, assessing risks, and coordinating remediation.
• Coordinate IAM-related initiatives and ensure identity and access requirements are addressed throughout project delivery.
• Support detection engineering and security monitoring initiatives, including tracking resulting findings and remediation activities.
• Apply Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) practices to security integrations, controls, risk management, and remediation.
• Facilitate stakeholder alignment and resolve project issues, dependencies, and delivery challenges.
• Maintain project plans, RAID logs, action items, status reports, budgets, and governance documentation.
• Provide clear reporting on project progress, cybersecurity readiness, risks, dependencies, and key milestones.
• Ensure project documentation is accurate, complete, audit-ready, and compliant with PMO standards.
• Adapt to changing business priorities and take ownership of cybersecurity initiatives based on organizational needs.
Required Qualifications
• 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with strong project or program management experience.
• Proven experience managing cybersecurity projects, with a strong understanding of IAM concepts, identity governance, and access management.
• Experience managing penetration testing initiatives and tracking security findings and remediation activities through closure.
• Experience supporting security reviews of integrations, including assessment of security controls, risks, and remediation requirements.
• Understanding of GRC practices related to integrations, security controls, risk management, and remediation.
• Exposure to detection engineering, security monitoring initiatives, and associated remediation activities.
• Strong analytical and business analysis skills, including the ability to understand security findings, requirements, dependencies, and remediation plans.
• Proven ability to manage multiple cybersecurity projects simultaneously, adapt to changing priorities, and take ownership of delivery.
• Experience with project governance, risk management, stakeholder coordination, and project reporting.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery methodologies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with technical teams, business stakeholders, and leadership.
• Ability to explain how security findings are assessed, tracked, remediated, and validated through project completion.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with SailPoint or other enterprise Identity and Access Management platforms.
• Exposure to SAP cybersecurity initiatives, SAP GRC, or SAP-related security integrations.
• Experience coordinating cybersecurity initiatives involving enterprise applications, infrastructure, and integration security.
• Experience supporting complex enterprise security programs in cross-functional environments.