Senior Cybersecurity Project Lead (Remote)

Humana, Inc.; Olympia (WA); Remote; USD 104,000 - 143,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana, Inc. is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Project Manager to lead end-to-end delivery of strategic cybersecurity initiatives, aligning security goals with business objectives.

The role partners with cybersecurity leaders, architects, engineers, product teams, vendors, and executives to drive successful outcomes. You will translate strategy into execution, manage risks and dependencies, and ensure initiatives are delivered on time and within budget.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in IT, cybersecurity, business, engineering, or related field.
• 5-8+ years leading cross-functional projects and teams in technology, cybersecurity, risk, or related disciplines.
• Experience leading initiatives involving multiple teams and dependencies.
• Experience delivering initiatives in cybersecurity domains such as Identity Security, Security Operations, Incident Response, Cloud Security, Network Security, or Governance and Risk.
• Strong knowledge of PM disciplines: planning, risk, dependency management, stakeholder engagement, governance, and reporting.
• Experience developing executive-level communications and decision-support materials.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders in matrixed organizations.
• Experience managing project financials, budgets, forecasts, and vendor engagements.
• Strong written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills.
• Ability to operate independently in highly complex/ambiguous environments.
• Fluency in ServiceNow PPM for project financial management, forecasting, resource allocation, and time tracking.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of complex cybersecurity initiatives from planning through implementation and operational transition.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, assumptions, decisions, and action items.
• Coordinate delivery across cybersecurity teams, technology organizations, business stakeholders, vendors, and external partners.
• Drive execution of initiatives across Identity & Access Management, Privileged Access Management, Security Operations, Threat Detection & Response, Network Security, Application Security, Cloud Security, AI Security, Governance, Risk & Compliance, and Security Architecture.
• Facilitate planning sessions, stakeholder reviews, executive updates, governance forums, and project steering meetings.
• Identify delivery risks, resource constraints, cross-team dependencies, and schedule impacts; develop mitigation and response plans.
• Establish and maintain project reporting that provides clear visibility into progress, risks, decisions, milestones, and business outcomes.
• Translate complex technical concepts into business-focused communications for leadership and executive stakeholders.
• Partner with cybersecurity leaders to align project execution with strategic objectives, capability roadmaps, and organizational priorities.
• Manage project scope, goals, and timeline while ensuring alignment with approved objectives.
• Manage project financials in partnership with portfolio management, including budgets, forecasts, resource allocations, and project time tracking.
• Drive accountability for commitments and facilitate timely resolution of issues and blockers.
• Support vendor engagements, contract deliverables, procurement activities, and implementation planning when applicable.
• Ensure delivery artifacts, documentation, governance requirements, and project controls are maintained throughout the project lifecycle.
• Promote consistency in project delivery practices while adapting approaches to Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid delivery models as needed.
• Lead project team(s) & contractors, mentor junior PMs.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Project management

Executive communications

Stakeholder management

Agile / SAFe experience

Security domain knowledge

Risk & compliance experience

Budget & forecasting

Vendor management

Presentation skills

Independent work in complex env

ServiceNow PPM

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in IT, cybersecurity, business, engineering, or related field

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Jira Align

ServiceNow PPM

Job description

Humana, Inc. is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Project Manager to lead end-to-end delivery of strategic cybersecurity initiatives, aligning security goals with business objectives.

The role partners with cybersecurity leaders, architects, engineers, product teams, vendors, and executives to drive successful outcomes. You will translate strategy into execution, manage risks and dependencies, and ensure initiatives are delivered on time and within budget.