Project Manager (Cybersecurity)

Cybersecurity Jobs; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

Lorien is seeking a Project Manager (Cybersecurity) for a long-term contract in Charlotte, NC on a hybrid schedule. The role oversees program and project agile governance, gating readiness, and execution reporting to coordinate delivery against schedule, scope, cost, and compliance goals.

You will partner with delivery teams to manage features, epics, stories, backlog, and gates using Primavera P6 and JIRA, drive monthly planning, and support monthly forecasting, risk management, and

Qualifications

• PMP and PMI-ACP certifications are required.
• Experience with Jira, Agile (hybrid), and SDLC.
• Ability to assess schedule impacts in Agile delivery.
• Backlog management experience in Jira and technical delivery roadmap.
• Risk management proficiency and use of Microsoft Office tools.
• Bachelor’s degree required.

Responsibilities

• Oversee features, epics, stories, and backlog across projects.
• Establish monthly PI planning and weekly Team of Teams forums.
• Maintain backlog grooming and track gating artifacts for each project gate.
• Develop scope baseline and support monthly forecasting and reporting.
• Manage risk registers and provide variance explanations.

Skills

PMP

PMI-ACP

JIRA

Agile

SDLC

Backlog management

Risk management

Microsoft Office

Excel

Primavera P6

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

JIRA

Primavera P6

Active Risk Manager/ARM

Riskonnect

Excel

Job description

Lorien is hiring a Project Manager (Cybersecurity) for a long-term contract in Charlotte, NC (hybrid), with an hourly rate of USD 70–75. This role supports program/project agile oversight, gating readiness, and execution reporting, helping teams coordinate delivery against schedule, scope, cost, and compliance goals.

Responsibilities

• Partner with delivery teams across each project to oversee Features, Epics, Stories, and Backlog, ensuring alignment with the Primavera P6 schedule and deliverables.
• Establish monthly PI Planning to support the monthly increment and commitment of work (Sprint-based planning is acceptable if it serves that intent).
• Establish a weekly Team of Teams forum to review current commitment status, sprint progress, and impediment status (with a recurring Core Team meeting each week, where the latter portion may be used for this oversight).
• Assure ongoing backlog grooming is maintained by the teams.
• Identify, manage, and drive impediments to closure through reviews at Core Team and Team of Teams.
• Track and trace each mapped CS200 standard to individual projects to support compliance reporting.
• Develop measures for percentage of controls improvements and/or compliance achieved based on project delivery.
• Consider overlaps of controls across projects to support compliance achievement insights.
• Research, identify, and prepare all required gating artifacts for each project’s next Gate.
• Work with project SMEs to develop estimates needed for each Gate.
• Use the project controls template and/or support provided via PGO-D for estimating and reporting.
• Develop the Scope Baseline for each project and maintain scope management and tracking templates (including installs of assets, licenses, or process project scope completions).
• Support monthly forecasting and reporting, including:
  • Scope management: tools for each project with monthly updates.
  • Schedule forecast: JIRA progress updates tied to P6, plus P6 milestone achievement and forecasting.
  • Cost forecast: labor forecasting support using SME inputs, and invoicing forecasting updates (review outstanding or planned invoicing).
  • Risk register updates using Active Risk Manager/ARM (SWORD, now Riskonnect).
  • Variance explanations and tracking.
  • Monthly reporting at both the individual project and program level (Financial KPIs, Milestones, Issues, Risks, Dependencies, Impediments).
  • Weekly status reporting (4-blocker).
• Support the Change Manager with planned activities, stakeholder analysis and updates, and communications for project and program change management needs, including building communication collateral.

Requirements

• PMP
• PMI-ACP
• JIRA
• Familiarity with Agile (including Hybrid Agile), and SDLC
• Ability to quickly assess schedule impacts associated with Agile delivery
• Proficient to Expert in software and/or communications projects
• Backlog management experience, particularly within JIRA and the technical delivery roadmap
• Agile project management experience, including familiarity with ceremonies and managing scope and requirements traceability across multiple projects and workstreams; participate and facilitate large-room engagements as needed
• Proficient to Expert in Risk Management
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and other project management tools: Excel, Word, Project, JIRA, Teams, PowerPoint, Visio
• Familiarity with Primavera P6
• Risk management tooling familiarity: Active Risk Manager/ARM (SWORD, now Riskonnect)
• Excel expert
• File and document management with strong attention to detail
• Forecasting, cost, and timing managed in Agile monthly sprints
• Bachelor’s degree

Technologies

• Agile, SDLC, Jira, Excel, Word, Project, Teams, PowerPoint, Visio
• Primavera P6
• Active Risk Manager/ARM (SWORD, now dba Riskonnect)

Key Skills

• Forecast, cost, timing; managed in Agile monthly sprints
• Experience in JIRA
• Excel expertise
• File and document management, attention to detail

Job type: Contract Location: Charlotte, NC (hybrid) Compensation: USD 70–75 per hour