Senior IT Project Manager

Luxoft; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT services company in the UK is seeking a Senior IT Program/Project Manager with extensive experience in cyber security and agile project delivery. The successful candidate will manage large-scale IT security initiatives, ensuring effective collaboration with stakeholders and driving successful project governance. Candidates should have over 10 years in project management, preferably in the finance sector. A master's degree with a project management focus is essential.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of experience in IT project management, particularly in cyber security.
• Experience managing large infrastructure migration projects.
• Proven success in technical delivery within agile teams.

Responsibilities

• Deliver IT solutions for Security Monitoring and Response.
• Manage budget, risks, and quality of projects.
• Drive effective governance aligned with scope and timelines.

Skills

IT program/project management

Cyber security expertise

Agile methodologies

Communication

Strategic thinking

Education

Master's and post-graduate with project management focus

Tools

SIEM

SOAR

Job description

Overview

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Project description

Have you successfully managed large-scale IT Products and Security Change / Integration Initiatives? Do you like managing all aspects of agile projects? Are you confident in delivering the objectives and key results within highly complex cyber security environment?

We're looking for an IT Program/Project Manager with sound hands-on experience in the agile delivery environment.

You'll be working in the Cyber Security Services organization, in a team which is global, diverse agile and collaborative, as we work across organizations to keep secure our technology, applications and the businesses they support. We review, develop and deliver global solutions to maintain or change our IT security with our business counterparts. As an IT project manager / product owner, you'll play an important role in seeing that the development methodology is followed and discuss technical design with the architects, but also pragmatically align decisions with the stakeholders owning and operating solutions that the project team delivers. Our culture centers around partnership with our businesses, transparency, responsibility, accountability, excellent collaboration and empowerment, and passion for the future.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for the delivery of IT solutions for Security Monitoring, Orchestration, Automation and Response, aimed at providing detection and response to Cyber Threats.
• In close collaboration with Security Monitoring Service Owner
• Manage constant improvements and calibration of the existing SIEM and SOAR platforms, especially integration activities for the target state platform implementation.
• Manage the budget, risks, dependencies, quality and constant change at product and pod level.
• Drive effective governance to stay in line with scope, budget and timelines.
• Assess and remediate risks and issues, tracking these in the RAID reports.
• Liaise with the business stakeholders (Cyber Security Service organization, CISO, SOC, CTO, Operations), gaining the go forward decisions and signoffs, for planned and unplanned requests for improvements.
• Allocate, utilize and direct personnel resources in the pod to drive projects to completion
• Constantly applying best agile practices, e.g., Scrum.

Skills

Must have

• worked as an IT program/project manager, Scrum Master, and/or Product Owner, focusing on cyber security, for at least 10 years within the finance sector or large environments
• managed all facets of large-scale projects, met deliverables and KTLO coordination
• managed large infrastructure migration initiatives, preferably in Cyber Defense area
• strategic thinker and excellent communicator, able to coach, lead, enable teams and convince.
• proven success managing technical delivery of solutions in agile oriented teams.
• adaptable and able to work effectively across different teams and functions (non-IT)
• master's and post-graduate with project management focus or equivalent
• managed cybersecurity projects, e.g., logging and monitoring, or malware detection

Nice to have

• beneficial: experience with SIEM and SOAR products.

Other

Languages

• English: C1 Advanced

Seniority

• Senior