Technical Program Manager - Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity Jobs; Brooklyn Park (MN); On-site; USD 92,000 - 154,000; Full time

Job summary

Dahl Consulting is seeking a Technical Program Manager - Cybersecurity onsite in Brooklyn Park, MN, for a contract role. The role leads a large-scale migration, coordinating cybersecurity activities across multiple teams and ensuring security requirements are met on schedule.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years of technical program leadership, strong executive communication, and a deep understanding of IAM, data, network, cloud, and application security.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Technical Program Management or equivalent in large enterprise environments.
• Experience leading cross-functional technology programs across engineering and cybersecurity teams.
• Strong working knowledge of cybersecurity domains, practices, and controls.
• Experience coordinating security requirements and dependencies across IAM, data, network, cloud, and app security.
• Ability to manage complex dependencies and delivery risks across multiple teams.
• Strong executive communication for program health updates and decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end cybersecurity program coordination for an enterprise migration.
• Maintain an integrated view of requirements, dependencies, milestones, ownership, and risks.
• Surface security dependencies with clear owners and delivery dates.
• Coordinate execution across Cybersecurity, Architecture, Engineering, Data, Platform, Infrastructure, and Product teams.
• Facilitate technical discussions to resolve security architecture and integration issues.
• Identify gaps, conflicting assumptions, delivery risks, and blockers early.
• Drive decisions and accountability for cross-boundary ownership.
• Track and report critical dependencies, blockers, risks, decisions, milestones, and health.
• Provide concise executive-level reporting on outcomes and actions.
• Bring structure to complex initiatives and ensure completion.

Skills

Technical PM

Cross-functional leadership

Cybersecurity

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Job description

Dahl Consulting is hiring a Technical Program Manager - Cybersecurity for a contract role based in Brooklyn Park, MN (onsite). This position supports a large-scale enterprise data platform migration in a retail environment, bringing structure and coordination to cross-team cybersecurity execution. The hourly pay range is USD 67 - 112, and candidates should have 10+ years of technical program leadership.

What you’ll work on

In this role, you will coordinate end-to-end cybersecurity activities across a complex migration program. You will align cybersecurity requirements, technical dependencies, milestones, and critical-path work among multiple technology teams. The work requires hands-on technical leadership and the ability to facilitate technical discussions across cybersecurity, architecture, engineering, data, platform, infrastructure, and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end cybersecurity program coordination for an enterprise data platform migration.
• Maintain an integrated view of cybersecurity requirements, dependencies, milestones, ownership, sequencing, risks, and critical-path activities.
• Surface security and technical dependencies early, ensuring each has clear owners, delivery dates, and resolution plans.
• Coordinate execution across Cybersecurity, Architecture, Engineering, Data and Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, Product, and other enterprise teams.
• Facilitate technical discussions to resolve security architecture, integration, dependency, sequencing, and ownership issues.
• Identify gaps, conflicting assumptions, unresolved decisions, and delivery risks before they affect migration milestones.
• Drive decisions and accountability for ownership and dependencies that span organizational boundaries.
• Track and communicate visibility into critical dependencies, blockers, risks, decisions, milestones, and overall program health.
• Provide concise, executive-level reporting focused on outcomes, risks, dependencies, decisions, and required actions.
• Bring structure and accountability to complex cross-functional initiatives and see critical work through completion.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of Technical Program Management or equivalent technical program leadership experience, preferably in large enterprise environments.
• Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional technology programs across multiple engineering and cybersecurity teams.
• Strong working knowledge of cybersecurity domains, practices, and controls.
• Experience coordinating security requirements and dependencies across:
  • Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • Data security
  • Network security
  • Cloud security
  • Application and platform security
  • Vulnerability management
  • Logging and monitoring
  • Security architecture
• Ability to manage complex technical dependencies, integration points, sequencing, critical paths, risks, and blockers across multiple teams.
• Technical fluency to participate in architecture and engineering discussions, identify dependencies, challenge assumptions, surface gaps, and recognize delivery risks.
• Strong executive communication skills for program health updates, critical dependency/risk communication, and action-oriented messaging.
• Capacity to navigate organizational complexity, establish accountability, and drive decisions across teams with different priorities and ownership structures.

Benefits

Dahl Consulting offers a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees, designed to provide coverage options that can meet your family's needs.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise data platform migrations or modernization initiatives.
• Experience working across cybersecurity, engineering, architecture, infrastructure, data, platform, and product organizations.
• Experience in a large-scale retail or similarly complex enterprise technology environment.
• Experience partnering directly with security architects, engineers, technical leaders, and senior executives.
• Ability to translate complex technical and cybersecurity topics into clear program-level risks, dependencies, decisions, and actions.