Project Manager,Security Job Houston area,Texas USA,IT/Tech

Accountabilities

- Plan, coordinate, and manage cybersecurity projects from initiation through implementation, validation, and operational handover, ensuring delivery aligns with agreed scope, timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
- Lead projects across identity and access management, identity governance, privileged access, and data security, including assessments, design, implementation, migrations, remediation, and operationalization.
- Define project objectives, roles, responsibilities, milestones, deliverables, resource requirements, and governance processes for all assigned engagements.
- Coordinate consultants, architects, engineers, client stakeholders, and partner vendors to maintain alignment, resolve issues, and achieve project milestones.
- Manage project risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, decisions, and change requests through structured RAID logs, action plans, and change control processes.
- Develop and maintain project budgets, forecasts, expenditure tracking, service estimates, and financial reporting, identifying variances and initiating corrective actions when required.
- Facilitate project governance activities, including kickoff meetings, regular status reviews, risk discussions, steering committee updates, and acceptance or sign-off checkpoints.
- Produce clear, executive-ready status reports and customer-facing documentation covering progress, risks, issues, decisions, milestones, and delivery performance.
- Partner with technical leads to align delivery plans with security controls, testing requirements, cutover activities, validation processes, and post-implementation support.
- Ensure project teams follow consistent delivery methodologies, documentation standards, evidence collection requirements, quality gates, and applicable security procedures.
- Manage multiple concurrent security engagements and shared resources across teams or work streams while maintaining effective schedule, scope, and risk management.
- Support project team performance by providing feedback, helping colleagues overcome delivery challenges, and promoting accountability and collaboration.
- Identify opportunities to improve delivery processes, strengthen operational efficiency, and enhance the quality of client outcomes.
- Maintain current knowledge of cybersecurity practices, project management methodologies, and emerging technologies through ongoing professional development.

Requirements

- Three to five years of experience in project management and project planning, preferably within cybersecurity, consulting, professional services, or enterprise IT environments.
- Demonstrated experience managing cybersecurity, identity and access management (IAM), or data security projects involving technical teams and business stakeholders.
- Understanding of the cybersecurity delivery lifecycle, including assessment, solution design, implementation, testing, remediation, cutover, and transition to operations.
- Familiarity with cloud security concepts and technologies, including Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP), and Data Security Posture Management (DSPM).
- Working knowledge of public cloud environments such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Understanding of identity security concepts, including IAM, Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), Privileged Access Management (PAM), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Single Sign-On (SSO), federation, role-based access control (RBAC), segregation of duties (SoD), service accounts, and secrets management.
- Familiarity with data security practices such as data discovery, classification, labeling, data loss prevention (DLP), retention management, insider risk, and data governance.
- Ability to manage technical and business stakeholders through security risk assessments, compliance considerations, control-related decisions, and competing project priorities.
- Experience developing project plans, budgets, forecasts, status reports, action plans, issue escalations, and client-facing documentation.
- Strong organizational, analytical, presentation, and problem-solving skills, with excellent written and verbal communication abilities.
- Proven ability to manage expectations around scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, and customer satisfaction.
- Ability to work independently while contributing effectively to collaborative, cross-functional teams in a remote environment.
- A proactive…

Project Manager, Security