Project Manager: Security Services

Job description

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation. At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD. We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. ***We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.*** The Project Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering cybersecurity engagements with a focus on core AHEAD security offerings including identity and data security. This role manages scope, schedule, budget, risks, dependencies, resources, and client communications across security assessments, implementations, migrations, remediation efforts, and managed-service transition activities. The Project Manager partners with engagement leads, architects, engineers, client stakeholders, and partner teams to deliver high-quality outcomes aligned to project plans ### Responsibilities - Act as engagement lead on customer engagements - Communicate project roles and responsibilities to project team members while planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing project objectives. - Enforce policies and procedures for each project - Achieve operational objectives by: - Contributing information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews - Preparing and completing action plans - Implementing production, productivity, quality, and client-service standards - Resolving problems - Determining system improvements - Implementing change - Meet financial objectives by forecasting requirements, quoting services, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective actions. - Lead delivery of cybersecurity projects in identity, access, and data protection domains, including assessments, design, implementation, migration, remediation, and operationalization efforts. - Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, and participating in professional organizations. - Coordinate project execution across consultants, architects, engineers, customer stakeholders, and partner vendors to ensure delivery quality, milestone attainment, and issue resolution. - Manage RAID logs, project dependencies, change control, decision tracking, and executive status reporting for security engagements. - Drive client governance cadences, including kickoff sessions, status meetings, risk reviews, steering updates, and acceptance/sign-off checkpoints. - Ensure projects follow repeatable delivery standards, documentation requirements, evidence collection expectations, and quality gates. - Partner with technical leads to align delivery plans to security controls, testing, cutover, validation, and post-implementation support needs. - Manage multiple concurrent security engagements and shared resources across pods or workstreams while maintaining schedule and risk governance. - Enhance departmental and organizational reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests while exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments. - Develop budgets and track budget expenses. - Provide performance management feedback for project aligned resources based on project observations. - Staff projects appropriately and supervise team members.