Senior Cybersecurity Project Manager – Security Tool Rationalization & Transformation
- Charlotte, NC, United States
Remote
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Job details
- Workplace
- Remote
- Experience
- 5–7 years of experience in IT project management, cybersecurity program delivery, or enterprise technology transformation.
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Be Part Of A High-Performing Team
Join the information security organization of a leading global financial institution committed to strengthening cybersecurity, improving operational efficiency, and maintaining robust technology governance across international operations.
This team is advancing a strategic cybersecurity transformation initiative focused on simplifying its security technology landscape, reducing redundant solutions, optimizing technology investments, and strengthening enterprise-wide security capabilities.
Working alongside security architects, engineers, operations leaders, procurement, finance, and risk management teams, this position offers an opportunity to drive meaningful improvements across a complex, globally distributed technology environment.
What's In Store For You
- Work Arrangement: Remote, supporting globally distributed teams and stakeholders.
- Engagement: W2 only (no C2C/1099).
- Contract opportunity supporting a strategic enterprise cybersecurity transformation program.
- Exposure to international security operations and technology initiatives spanning the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
- Opportunity to influence security technology decisions, operational efficiency, vendor strategies, and long-term cost optimization.
- Collaboration with senior security leadership, engineering teams, and enterprise technology stakeholders.
How You Will Make An Impact
- Lead cross-functional cybersecurity transformation projects focused on consolidating, optimizing, and retiring enterprise security technologies.
- Manage security tool rationalization initiatives from initial assessments and technology evaluations through implementation, decommissioning, and operational transition.
- Coordinate with cybersecurity architecture, engineering, operations, procurement, finance, legal, privacy, and compliance teams to align project deliverables with business objectives.
- Develop and maintain project plans, milestones, dependencies, risk registers, and executive reporting to ensure timely delivery.
- Support technology evaluations, vendor assessments, RFI/RFP activities, and procurement decisions related to security tool investments.
- Identify opportunities to eliminate redundant capabilities, improve security tool utilization, and reduce unnecessary technology expenditures.
- Oversee technology retirement and decommissioning activities while ensuring appropriate risk controls, documentation, and operational readiness.
- Establish project governance practices, decision-making processes, and performance metrics to monitor transformation progress.
- Track cost savings, operational improvements, and other measurable benefits associated with security technology consolidation.
- Facilitate collaboration among regional security leaders and global technology teams to manage dependencies and coordinate implementation activities.
- Drive change management and stakeholder adoption to ensure sustainable operational improvements.
Requirements
Are You An Experienced Cybersecurity Project Manager Ready To Drive Enterprise Technology Transformation?
- 5–7 years of experience in IT project management, cybersecurity program delivery, or enterprise technology transformation.
- Demonstrated success managing complex, cross-functional technology initiatives involving security, engineering, risk, compliance, procurement, and finance.
- Experience supporting cybersecurity technology consolidation, tool rationalization, technology lifecycle management, or related transformation initiatives.
- Strong understanding of project governance, milestone tracking, risk management, dependency management, and change control.
- Experience coordinating vendor evaluations, technology assessments, procurement activities, or RFI/RFP processes.
- Ability to manage project financials, evaluate cost optimization opportunities, and track measurable business benefits.
- Strong executive communication skills, including developing status reports, dashboards, and presentations for senior leadership.
- Experience working with geographically distributed stakeholders and coordinating initiatives across multiple regions.
- Working knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid project delivery methodologies.
- Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, Power BI, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft 365.
- Bachelor's degree in Technology, Cybersecurity, Business, or a related discipline.
- Excellent analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with Security Operations Centers (SOC), SIEM, XDR, identity and access management (IAM), cloud security, and network security.
- Understanding of vulnerability management, data security, and privacy controls.
- Experience delivering security technology transformation initiatives within complex enterprise or regulated environments.
- PMP, Agile/Scrum, CISSP, CISM, or comparable professional certifications.
More about this job
Skills
- Cybersecurity
- Leadership
- Coordinate security
- Procurement
- Documentation
- Decision making
- Change management
- Project management
- Regulatory compliance
- Risk management
- Communication skills
- Presentation skills
- Agile
- Jira
- Atlassian Confluence
- Microsoft Power BI
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft 365
- Problem solving
- Stakeholder management
- Identity and access management
- PMP
- Scrum
- CISSP
- CISM