Senior Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end program planning, scheduling, and execution for one or more identity security workstreams.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, dependency maps, risk registers, and RAID logs.
• Lead sprint planning, PI Planning events, and backlog grooming in an SAFe/Agile delivery model.
• Facilitate cross-team ceremonies including standups, demos, retrospectives, and steering committee reviews.
• Track and report on program health, milestones, and KPIs to senior leadership and the CISO organization.
• Proactively identify, escalate, and resolve blockers, risks, and inter-workstream dependencies.
• Drive delivery of Privileged Access Management (PAM) programs using BeyondTrust Password Safe, Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM), and Privileged Remote Access (PRA).
• Support initiatives related to Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) including conditional access policy governance, hybrid identity, and lifecycle management.
• Partner with IGA teams on SailPoint IdentityNow configuration, access certification campaigns, and role engineering.
• Coordinate Okta identity platform hardening, including phishing-resistant MFA (FastPass, FIDO2/WebAuthn), device assurance policies, and authenticator enrollment controls.
• Translate technical identity requirements into workable project scope, acceptance criteria, and delivery milestones.

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

• Serve as the primary point of contact for program status across technology, security, compliance, and business stakeholders.
• Prepare and deliver executive-ready status reports, steering committee decks, and program dashboards.
• Coordinate with Vendor Management and Procurement on contingent resource onboarding and statement of work management.
• Coincide with audit and compliance teams (SOX, PCI-DSS, NIST) to ensure delivery timelines support control testing windows.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical project or program management experience in enterprise IT or cybersecurity environments.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience managing IAM or cybersecurity programs — not just general IT infrastructure projects.
• Direct experience with one or more of the following platforms: BeyondTrust (Password Safe, EPM, PRA), Microsoft Entra ID / Azure AD, SailPoint IdentityNow or IIQ, Okta.
• Proficiency with agile frameworks including SAFe, Scrum, or Kanban; experience facilitating PI Planning events preferred.
• Strong command of project management tooling: Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet, or equivalent.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to translate technical complexity for executive audiences.
• Experience working in a large, matrixed enterprise environment with distributed delivery teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP, PgMP, SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), or equivalent project management certification.
• Experience managing PAM programs in a retail, financial services, or regulated industry.
• Familiarity with NIST 800-63, Zero Trust architecture principles, or CIS Controls.
• Prior experience as a contingent worker embedded within a large enterprise technology organization.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Business Administration, or a related field required.
• Master’s degree (MBA, MS in Information Security, or related discipline) preferred for candidates with fewer than 10 years of experience.
• Equivalent combination of education and experience considered: candidates with an Associate’s degree plus 10+ years of directly relevant IAM/cybersecurity program management experience will be evaluated on merit.
• Project management certification (PMP, PgMP) or agile certification (SAFe SPC, CSM) may substitute for one year of the required experience.
• Relevant vendor certifications (e.g., BeyondTrust Certified Professional, Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate, SailPoint Certified IdentityNow Engineer, Okta Certified Administrator) are a plus and may offset formal degree requirements at hiring manager discretion.