Associate Information Security Director, Program Management

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leads the planning and implementation of the information security program, responsible for the coordination, implementation, execution, and completion of IT security projects, ensuring consistency with overall strategy, commitments, and goals
• Provides leadership to team of project managers to deliver multiple IT security projects, including some large and complex projects.
• Drives execution for on-time, on-scope delivery of IT security solutions, releasing new features/capabilities, fixing bugs, and eliminating technical debts
• Facilitates the definition of program/project scope, goals and deliverables, maintain the program roadmap with clearly defined & attainable desired outcomes and value statements
• Produces InfoSec program and project level dashboards, scorecards, reporting and metrics to monitor progress & performance, and provide on-going written and verbal release status updates to senior, business partners and project team members updated on information security program execution.
• Communicates program status and escalate issues to key stakeholders, and clearly communicates “who, what, why, how?” of information security initiatives in simple to understand terms
• Manages expectations with stakeholders, and prepares professional communications around relevant information security topics
• Organizes workstream for integrating InfoSec project with business unit solution, serve as liaison between InfoSec and business
• Ensures effective teamwork, communication, collaboration and commitment across multiple teams and vendors.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related degree.
• 10+ years in IT program/project management, with at least 3+ years in information security program delivery
• Formal knowledge of program management principles, processes, and tools
• Track record of successfully leading large/complex global cross functional projects, strong global project management experience on complex, cross-functional, large implementations
• Experience with system development lifecycle and project management methodologies, specifically Agile/Scrum, in addition to Waterfall, strong experience with project / issue tracking systems such as JIRA.
• Proven experience in people management, conflict resolution, strategic planning, risk management, and change management
• Be able to distill complex problems into manageable tasks with clear goals for achievement
• Meticulous attention to detail, with the ability to make good, timely decisions.
• Ability to manage customer expectations throughout the program implementation and delivery process.
• Excel at project documentation for effective task management, or recording specific processes/procedures
• In-depth knowledge of IT infrastructure and typical IT systems related to communicate effectively about the technical aspects of the program or projects
• Strong understanding of finances, budgeting and cost control on IT projects
• Excellent written and presentation skills, with ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, to interact effectively with leadership, solution architecture, software engineering, testing and infrastructure teams
• Knowledge of working with vendor SOWs, RFPs, and contracts
• PMP, PMO, Scrum Certifications along with security certifications are a great plus
• Desired knowledge areas: identity and access management, cloud security, network and communication security, software development security.

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