IAM Project Manager

IAM Project Manager

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: IAM Project Manager

Location: Boston, MA and Princeton, NJ (Hybrid)

Employment Type: Contract

POSITION OVERVIEW

The IAM Project Manager is accountable for the quality and delivery of the project scope assigned. This role schedules, reports, and drives tasks through implementation; creates schedules and timelines; and manages and tracks deliverables. The Project Manager will lead the IAM workstream supporting large-scale application migrations to AWS, Microsoft Azure, and strategic data centers.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Review acceptance criteria with the client for each project phase and milestone
• Build a project schedule with detailed tasks, activities, task dependencies, and resources identified
• Conduct project updates and risk assessments and maintain a project RAID log
• Provide regular project status report(s) to a mutually agreed upon set of project stakeholders at a mutually agreed upon frequency
• Identify and classify project risks and develop a mitigation strategy
• Oversee the IAM team delivering standard IAM patterns and implementation across authentication, authorization, secret management, identity governance, and privileged access management
• Coordinate IAM integration outcomes for approved backlog items, including configuration, implementation, and documentation
• Manage stakeholder communication and ensure optimized collaboration with dependent application teams
• Ensure alignment with enterprise standards and operational models
• Support migration readiness and cutover activities for IAM controls
• Track and report on IAM workstream progress, risks, and issues

REQUIRED SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS:

• 7+ years of experience in IT project management, preferably in enterprise migration programs
• Strong understanding of Identity and Access Management concepts and technologies, including:
• Privileged Access Management: CyberArk, HashiCorp Vault
• Authentication/Identity Providers (IDP): ForgeRock, RSA
• User Access & Entitlement Management: SailPoint, ESF (Enterprise Security Framework)
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and backlog management
• Proficiency in project management tools and techniques (scheduling, RAID logs, status reporting)
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Experience working in financial services or highly regulated industries preferred
• PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent certification preferred
• Experience with cloud migrations (AWS, Azure) preferred