Senior IT Risk Project Manager

1. Pre-sale

2. Contracting

3. Project start

4. Project Planning and Execution

5. Team Management

6. Self-management

Mandatory Skills Description:

• - 7+ years of professional experience in software development projects and management
• - 5+ years of experience in large scale Project/Program management
• - Proven track record in complex projects with global, distributed teams
• - People management experience for 20+ FTEs
• - Good understanding of program financials and reporting
• - Good understanding of project manager areas of responsibility:

Project Planning

• Backlog prioritization, detailing and decomposition
• Understanding of SDLC and ability to build/optimize project processes
• Communication with the team, client
• Understanding of motivation factors
• Team Management
• Result-oriented
• Working with feedback: provide and receive
• - Demonstrable experience running IT risk, security, or compliance-driven programmes - not only feature delivery
• - Ability to build and maintain a risk register: identification, qualification, scoring, mitigation planning, ownership assignment, and escalation
• - Experience coordinating remediation programmes across multiple engineering teams (patching, vulnerability closure, control implementation) and tracking them to measurable closure
• - Comfortable operating with audit, InfoSec, and compliance stakeholders; experience preparing evidence and status for governance forums or steering committees
• - Working knowledge of at least one control or risk framework (NIST CSF/RMF, ISO 27001, CIS Controls, SOC 2, or similar)
• - Ability to translate technical findings into business impact and risk-based prioritization for senior stakeholders