Remote Senior Cybersecurity Project Leader

Humana, Inc.; Trenton (NJ); Remote; USD 104,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus incentive

Work from home

Job summary

Humana, Inc. is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Project Manager to deliver strategic cybersecurity initiatives that strengthen security posture, reduce risk, and enable business objectives.

You will anchor projects within security domains and partner with cybersecurity leaders, architects, engineers, and executives to drive outcomes. You will translate strategy into execution, manage risks and dependencies, and ensure transparency in delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in IT, cybersecurity, business, engineering, or related field.
• 5-8+ years of experience leading cross-functional projects, teams, and contractors.
• Experience managing initiatives with multiple teams, stakeholders, and dependencies.
• Experience leading complex technology, cybersecurity, risk, compliance, or security initiatives in an enterprise.
• Experience delivering initiatives in cybersecurity domains such as Identity Security, Security Operations, Cloud Security, Network Security, Governance, Product/Applications Security.
• Strong knowledge of project management disciplines: planning, risk, dependency, governance, reporting.
• Experience developing executive communications and status reports.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders in matrixed orgs.
• Experience managing project financials, budgets, forecasts, and vendor engagements.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of complex cybersecurity initiatives from planning through implementation and transition.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, milestones, risks, and action items.
• Coordinate delivery across cybersecurity teams, tech orgs, stakeholders, vendors, and partners.
• Drive execution of initiatives across domains like Identity Security, Threat Detection, Network and Cloud Security.
• Facilitate planning sessions, reviews, governance forums, and steering meetings.
• Identify delivery risks, resource constraints, cross-team dependencies, and schedule impacts; create mitigations.
• Establish and maintain project reporting showing progress, risks, and milestones.
• Translate technical concepts into business-focused communications for leadership.
• Align execution with strategic objectives and capability roadmaps.
• Manage project scope, goals, and timelines with approved objectives.
• Oversee project financials with budgeting and time tracking; drive accountability.
• Support vendor engagements and procurement planning when applicable.
• Ensure delivery artifacts, governance, and controls are maintained throughout lifecycle.
• Promote consistent delivery practices across Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid models.
• Lead project teams and contractors; mentor junior PMs.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Cross-functional collaboration

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Jira Align

Job description

Humana, Inc. is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Project Manager to deliver strategic cybersecurity initiatives that strengthen security posture, reduce risk, and enable business objectives.

You will anchor projects within security domains and partner with cybersecurity leaders, architects, engineers, and executives to drive outcomes. You will translate strategy into execution, manage risks and dependencies, and ensure transparency in delivery.