Security Project Manager (m/f/d)

Illumiti Inc.; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working time models

Home office

Health insurance

AWS and SAP certifications training

Language learning options

Job summary

Syntax is seeking a Security Project Manager to plan, coordinate, and deliver a portfolio of security projects across our global organization. The role emphasizes hands-on delivery, governance, and strong collaboration with Security Engineering, Operations, Governance, and Service Management teams.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years of cybersecurity project delivery experience, excellent communication skills, and the ability to manage multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years managing cybersecurity-focused projects in mid-to-large enterprises.
• Experience coordinating multiple concurrent projects and dependencies.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management to senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own the coordinated delivery of a portfolio of security projects and initiatives across the security organization.
• Maintain a consolidated view of the project portfolio, tracking dependencies, risks, and priorities.
• Coordinate cross-functional security teams to drive successful project execution.

Skills

Project management

Cybersecurity

Stakeholder management

Tools

Splunk

CrowdStrike

Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Defender

Qualys

CyberArk

Job description

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Syntax is a leading Managed Cloud Provider for Mission Critical Enterprise Applications and has been providing comprehensive technology solutions to businesses of all sizes since 1972. Syntax has undisputed strength to implement and manage ERP deployments (Oracle, SAP) in a secure and resilient private, public or hybrid cloud. With strong technical and functional consulting services, and world-class monitoring and automation, Syntax serves some of North America’s largest corporations across a diverse range of industries. Syntax has offices worldwide, and partners with Oracle, SAP, AWS, Microsoft, IBM and other global technology leaders.

Security Project Manager (m/f/d)

Role Overview

About the Security Services Delivery Excellence Team

This role sits within the Security Services Delivery Excellence team, whose purpose is Elevating Security Delivery to a Standard of Excellence — enabling every other department to focus on its core purpose.

The team's principle is to Orchestrate, Not Operate: it focuses on how security services are delivered, not on what is engineered or operated. It defines the frameworks, standards, and metrics that empower Engineering and Operations to deliver consistently and efficiently. In practice, the team:

Unify the Service Experience — ensure that all security services, regardless of technical domain, follow a consistent delivery approach that enhances quality, transparency, and customer confidence.

Bridge Strategic and Operational Layers — connect the CISO's Engineering, Operations, and Governance towers through shared processes, common metrics, and maturity initiatives.

Institutionalize Service Excellence — establish a global framework for measuring quality, SLA performance, and customer satisfaction (KPI/KRI/NPS) without dictating technical execution.

Strengthen Readiness and Handoffs — coordinate readiness reviews, onboarding, and pre-launch validation to ensure services are operationally fit before handover to Operations.

Accelerate Continuous Improvement — lead cross-functional improvement programs based on service performance data and post-implementation insight, feeding lessons learned back into Engineering and Operations.

Enable Sustainable Growth — develop tools, dashboards, and delivery methodologies that scale globally, supporting rather than duplicating existing engineering or operational responsibilities.

Champion Collaboration and Clarity — serve as the single point of coordination for security service delivery excellence, ensuring alignment and clear ownership across all security towers.

We are seeking an experienced Security Project Manager to plan, coordinate, and deliver a portfolio of security-related projects and initiatives across our global security organization and customer security engagements. This role combines hands‑on project management— coordinating multiple concurrent projects, managing dependencies and shared risks across workstreams, and ensuring consistent governance and reporting across the security portfolio.

This is a delivery-focused role: the Security Project Manager operationalizes priorities and direction set by security leadership, rather than setting them independently.

The Security Project Manager will collaborate deeply across central security functions including Security Engineering, Security Operations, Security Governance, Corporate Security, and Service Management/Customer Success, ensuring alignment, clarity, and accountability for shared outcomes across multiple projects. This role requires prior experience delivering cybersecurity projects, and a strong understanding of security programs, technologies, and operational processes.

Key Responsibilities

Own the coordinated delivery of a portfolio of related security projects and initiatives, including internal security enhancement work, customer onboarding programs, get-to-green remediation plans, and cross-functional transformation initiatives.

Maintain a consolidated view of the security project portfolio, tracking cross-project dependencies, shared resources, risks, and priorities.

Support and operationalize Detection Engineering sprint planning, including backlog organization, sprint facilitation, and delivery tracking.

Coordination & Oversight

Coordinate cross-functional teams across the Security Organisation, such as Security Engineering and Security Operations, to drive successful execution of projects and programmes.

Partner with the wider company including Infrastructure, Cloud, and Service Management or Customer Success Management to ensure successful outcomes.

Security Knowledge and Leadership

Good knowledge and understanding of cybersecurity domains such as SOC operations, managed detection and response, security engineering, vulnerability/exposure management, and governance frameworks.

Provide clarity and structure to technical teams, acting as the bridge between technical teams and project execution discipline.

Act as a trusted delivery leader, driving accountability and establishing consistent communication with stakeholders, including regular programme-level reporting to security leadership.

Ensure projects adhere to governance, compliance, and risk-management frameworks.

Develop and maintain detailed project and programme plans, timelines, communication structures, and reporting dashboards.

Identify risks, dependencies, and mitigation strategies while driving accountability among stakeholders across multiple concurrent projects.

Facilitate workshops, requirements gathering sessions, and briefings with both technical and non-technical audiences.

Ensure high-quality documentation, including project/programme charters, status reports, and post-implementation reviews.

Required Qualifications

Demonstrated experience (3+ years) managing and delivering cybersecurity-focused projects and programs in mid-to-large enterprise environments, preferably as part of a CISO organisation, or for an IT services company delivering managed or professional security services.

Experience coordinating multiple concurrent projects or workstreams, including managing dependencies, shared resources, and competing priorities.

Proven ability to drive project outcomes with clarity, structure, and consistency.

Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management capabilities, including experience reporting to senior leadership.

Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience managing initiatives involving one or more of the following technologies: Splunk Enterprise & Enterprise Security, CrowdStrike, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender, Qualys, or CyberArk.

Experience supporting customer onboarding programs, managed security services, or security consulting delivery.

Experience mentoring or providing delivery oversight to other project managers or coordinators.

Project or program management certifications (PMP,PgMP, PRINCE2, Agile/Scrum).

Additional mandatory requirements:

Nationality or Work Authorization:

Spanish or Portuguese nationality, or alternatively a permanent work permit/VISA for Spain or Portugal.

Language Proficiency:

Advanced level of Spanish and English (both written and spoken).

Why Syntax?

Become a part of our success story and work in a company with exciting innovation projects that are causing a stir across the industry. We recently launched one of the world's most advanced manufacturing facilities based on SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud for Execution - for Smart Press Shop, a pioneering joint venture between Porsche and forming specialist Schuler.

• Global tourist: With us, you can also work from abroad from time to time
• Flexible working time models, home office
• Attractive benefits, e.g. health offers
• A modern environment in which the "you" is part of it
• Open feedback culture, flat hierarchies and a motivated team
• Individual career planning with continuous training and coaching on the job
• Flexible hours, Monday to Thursday 8h, and Fridays.... 6h. In addition, the whole month of August and the first half of September we have an intensive timetable.28 days holiday (23 days holiday + 4 days at Christmas from 15 December to 15 January + 1 day for your birthday)!
• Windows laptop for work (Dell or Lenovo)!
• Apple or Android smartphone...you choose!
• Two lovely offices with a nice garden to relax and have a coffee
• Free coffee and soft drinks
• Medical insurance with Sanitas
• Training: Free AWS and SAP certifications, internal workshops and free access to Linkedin E-learning
• Free online English, German, Spanish or French classes through a platform

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