City Of New York

Cybersecurity Senior Project Manager

City Of New York$110K — $130K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, plus 4 years of relevant experience.
  • Associate degree in computer science or a similar field, along with 6 years of experience in the relevant area.
  • Bachelor's degree and 8 years of satisfactory experience in applicable domains.
  • Specialization in relevant technology, process, or methodology is essential.
  • Experience in project management within a cybersecurity context is highly beneficial.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate cross-functional teams to streamline project management efforts.
  • Manage and oversee multiple cybersecurity projects across various domains.
  • Ensure effective use of Salesforce for project updates and documentation.
  • Assist in establishing a centralized project management office (PMO) for better resource tracking.
  • Develop reporting strategies to deliver actionable insights to executive leadership.
  • Lead and document multiple concurrent workstreams, ensuring thorough communication.
  • Conduct risk assessments and manage Proofs-of-Concept for emerging technologies.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a critical citywide cybersecurity environment.
  • Gain experience managing complex projects with multiple stakeholders.
  • Collaborative work environment with access to various cybersecurity resources.
  • Chance to contribute to the safety and integrity of the City's information systems.
  • Flexibility in scheduling due to operational demands.
Full Job Description
Job Description Establishing a baseline for Citywide cyber defense is a complex multi-year endeavor. It involves the design, build, implementation, and operation of net-new people, processes, and technology. As cybersecurity threats become more numerous and more sophisticated, the defense of the City's information systems and critical service delivery vehicles becomes more important, time consuming, and specialized. The design of systems which function at the required level of efficacy, usability, and speed is a major engineering undertaking. A seasoned project manager is required to support Cyber Command leadership in the management and optimization of its portfolio of established citywide cybersecurity programs and evolving suite of cybersecurity controls deployment. These programs have significant complexity across many City agencies, stakeholders, other cybersecurity entities in government and the private sector, and our information-sharing partners. Responsibilities will include: -Work directly with the Security Sciences team and vendors to coordinate with legal, contracting, finance, and communications teams to manage multi-functional team coordination, opportunity screening, develop RFI and RFP, benefit/cost analysis, vendor selection, work plan scheduling, budget oversight, contractor management, issue resolution, reporting and project closeout functions. -Manage the delivery of multiple projects across several domain areas, including engineering, operations, and customer-facing applications. -Manage and update Cyber Commands Salesforce domain for multiple, interrelated projects. -With collaboration from the Senior Advisor, assist in the creation of a centralized PMO structure to ensure all project variables are documented and ready for reporting and dashboard use. -Develop and implement reporting and dashboarding strategy to ensure all relevant datapoints are available for executive leadership use. -Translate leaderships vision into an achievable implementation plan. -Lead multiple concurrent workstreams, including meetings, minutes, follow up items, and documentation. -Develop new workflows and processes throughout the project lifecycle in collaboration with other stakeholders and drive those changes across the division and throughout the agency. -Manage Proofs-of-Concept/Value (PoC/PoV) trials for new technology solutions as part of ongoing projects or as independent projects. -Assist in conducting risk assessments and cost-benefit analyses to identify and resolve issues that may disrupt projects. -Coordinate and manage the overall service or product provided to a customer end-to-end. -Provide weekly and monthly project reports and metrics to key stakeholders. -Support the Cyber Command leadership team in developing presentation materials, meeting agendas and meeting minutes. -Handle special projects and initiatives as assigned. HOURS/SHIFT Day - Due to the necessary technical duties of this position in a 24/7 operation, candidate may be required to work various shifts such as weekends and/or nights/evenings. WORK LOCATION Brooklyn, NY TO APPLY * Interested applicants with other civil service titles who meet the preferred requirements should also submit a resume for consideration Please go to www.cityjobs/jobs/search and search for Job ID #791074 SUBMISSION OF A RESUME IS NOT A GUARANTEE THAT YOU WILL RECEIVE AN INTERVIEW APPOINTMENTS ARE SUBJECT TO OVERSIGHT APPROVAL IT PROJECT SPECIALIST - 95710 Qualifications 1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college in computer science, engineering, human computer interaction, interactive media, digital and graphics design, data visualization, communication or a related field, and four years of satisfactory full-time experience related to the area(s) required by the particular position and a specialization in a relevant technology, process, methodology and/or domain; or 2. An associate degree from an accredited college in computer science, engineering, human computer interaction, interactive media, digital and graphics design, data visualization, communication or a related field, and six years of satisfactory full-time experience related to the area(s) required by the particular position and a specialization in a relevant technology, process, methodology and/or domain; or 3. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college, and eight years of satisfactory full-time experience related to the area(s) required by the particular position and a specialization in a relevant technology, process, methodology and/or domain; or 4. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1", "2", or "3" above. Additional Information

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