Enterprise Cybersecurity Program Lead

Cognizant; Princeton (NJ); On-site; USD 137,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Cybersecurity Project Manager to lead enterprise-scale cybersecurity initiatives across security operations, governance, cloud security, identity management, vulnerability management, and regulatory compliance programs.

The role requires strong leadership, risk management, and executive communication skills, with experience across SOC, IAM/PAM, Cloud Security, and data protection. Applications accepted until 28 Aug 2026.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of IT experience with at least 5+ years managing cybersecurity, information security, or technology risk programs.
• Proven experience delivering enterprise-scale cybersecurity transformation, risk, compliance, or security modernization initiatives.
• Strong expertise in project management methodologies including Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid delivery models.
• Experience managing global teams, distributed delivery models, and cross-functional stakeholder groups.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of cybersecurity projects and strategic security transformation programs.
• Manage project scope, schedules, budgets, resources, dependencies, risks, and issues throughout the project lifecycle.
• Partner with security architects, engineers, business stakeholders, and technology teams to define project objectives, requirements, and success criteria.
• Drive delivery of initiatives across Security Operations, IAM/PAM, Cloud Security, Vulnerability Management, Security Engineering, Data Protection, and Compliance domains.
• Establish project governance frameworks, facilitate steering committee meetings, and provide executive-level reporting and communications.
• Proactively identify project risks and develop mitigation plans to ensure successful delivery outcomes.
• Coordinate global and cross-functional teams across security, infrastructure, application, cloud, and business functions.
• Ensure project deliverables meet security, compliance, quality, and regulatory requirements.
• Manage vendor engagements, third-party security initiatives, and external delivery dependencies.
• Track KPIs, milestones, financial metrics, and overall program health while driving continuous improvement across delivery processes.
• Support regulatory and compliance initiatives aligned with NIST, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, SOX, GDPR, and other security frameworks.
• Drive stakeholder alignment and influence business and technology leaders to achieve strategic cybersecurity objectives.

Skills

Cybersecurity project management

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Risk management

Executive communication

Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid

Education

PMP or equivalent certification

CISSP/CISM/CRISC

Security+ or PgMP

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Cybersecurity Project Manager to lead enterprise-scale cybersecurity initiatives across security operations, governance, cloud security, identity management, vulnerability management, and regulatory compliance programs.

The role requires strong leadership, risk management, and executive communication skills, with experience across SOC, IAM/PAM, Cloud Security, and data protection. Applications accepted until 28 Aug 2026.