Senior IT Project Manager

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

Job summary

A global IT services company is seeking an experienced IT Program/Project Manager in London, focusing on cyber security and agile project delivery. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in managing technical projects in the finance sector, with a proven track record in infrastructure migration and strategic communication. This role offers opportunities to lead diverse teams and enhance IT security initiatives.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years experience as an IT program/project manager in finance.
• Proven success in managing large-scale projects in cyber security.
• Experience with managing large infrastructure migrations.

Responsibilities

• Deliver IT solutions for Security Monitoring and Response.
• Manage budget, risks, dependencies, and quality.
• Drive governance to stay aligned with scope and timelines.

Skills

IT program/project management

Scrum Master experience

Cyber security knowledge

Infrastructure migration

Strategic thinking

Excellent communication

Agile practices

Project management focus

Education

Master's degree in project management or equivalent

Tools

SIEM products

SOAR products

Job description

Overview

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 a 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.