Senior Cybersecurity Project Leader

Humana; United States; Remote; USD 104,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus incentive plan

Job summary

Humana is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Project Manager to deliver strategic cybersecurity initiatives that strengthen security posture and enable business objectives across Identity Security, Threat Management, Security Operations, and more.

The role requires coordinating across cybersecurity leaders, architects, engineers, product teams, vendors, and executives to drive successful outcomes, while managing scope, timeline, and budgets to achieve risk reduction and compliance goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Business, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5-8+ years of experience leading cross-functional projects, project teams and contractors establishing clear accountability for delivery commitments, and programs in technology, cybersecurity, risk management, or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience managing initiatives involving multiple teams, stakeholders, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Experience leading complex technology, cybersecurity, risk, compliance, or security-related initiatives in an enterprise environment.
• Experience delivering initiatives in one or more cybersecurity domains such as Identity Security, Security Operations, Incident Response, Cloud Security, Network Security, Cyber Risk, Governance, Product Security, Application Security, or Security Engineering.
• Strong knowledge of project management disciplines including planning, risk management, dependency management, stakeholder engagement, governance, and reporting.
• Experience developing executive-level communications, status reporting, and decision-support materials.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders and drive alignment in matrixed organizations.
• Experience managing project financials, budgets, forecasts, vendor engagements, or investment-funded initiatives.
• Strong written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills.
• Ability to operate independently in highly complex and ambiguous environments.
• Fluency in ServiceNow Project Portfolio Management (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 related to areas such as 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

Stakeholder engagement

Executive communications

Budget & forecasting

Independent work in complex env.

Risk & dependencies management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in IT / Cybersecurity / Business / Engineering

Tools

ServiceNow PPM

Jira

Azure DevOps

Jira Align

Job description

Humana is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Project Manager to deliver strategic cybersecurity initiatives that strengthen security posture and enable business objectives across Identity Security, Threat Management, Security Operations, and more.

The role requires coordinating across cybersecurity leaders, architects, engineers, product teams, vendors, and executives to drive successful outcomes, while managing scope, timeline, and budgets to achieve risk reduction and compliance goals.