Position: Senior Technical Project Manager - Cybersecurity
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Duration: Contract
Job ID: 179826
Job Overview: We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Sr Principal Program Manager to oversee and manage multiple fast-paced initiatives with distributed teams. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership and team-building skills to effectively lead IT initiatives throughout the entire project lifecycle, from initiation to closure. This role requires a strategic thinker with a strong technical background, excellent communication skills, and the ability to manage complex projects while ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget.
Responsibilities: - Manage and oversee all aspects of multiple simultaneous initiatives with distributed teams.
- Lead IT initiatives through the entire project lifecycle, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closure.
- Develop and manage detailed project plans, scope, milestones, and budgets.
- Ensure initiatives are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget.
- Design and maintain project vision, working standards, and agreements.
- Identify potential risks and develop risk mitigation strategies.
- Manage issues and troubleshoot problems to minimize project disruptions.
- Track, update, and communicate project status, including progress, budget, resource utilization, change requests, issues, risks, and mitigation plans.
- Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to various stakeholders.
- Leverage data analytics to track project performance, optimize processes, and make informed decisions aligned with strategic goals.
Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems, CIS/MIS, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training.
- 11 years of experience in IT project management or a related role.
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or PMP (Project Management Professional) certification is a plus.
- Experience leading, coaching, and mentoring teams with a focus on continuous improvement and developing self-organizing teams.
- Proficiency in a variety of computing platforms, including mainframe, client/server, web, cloud, and social media.
- Experience with DevOps toolchain methodologies, including Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools (Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and project management software.
- Strong leadership skills with high energy and a positive attitude.
- Excellent analytical, estimating, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to think strategically and develop tactical methods to achieve objectives and goals.
- Proven ability to build and maintain effective relationships with team members, customers, and external groups.
- Experience working in a collaborative environment with geographically dispersed resources.
Top Requirements: - 11+ years of experience in technical project management or delivery management.
- 5+ years of experience in technical project management or delivery management supporting cybersecurity, IT infrastructure, or engineering teams, including hands-on facilitation of agile ceremonies and ownership of technical documentation.
- Proficiency in technical project coordination and agile facilitation, including running project delivery for concurrent technical workstreams and facilitating Scrum/Kanban ceremonies (refinement, planning, stand-up, review, retrospective) with hands-on backlog management in Azure DevOps or equivalent tools like Jira or Rally.
- Scrum certification (CSM, PSM, PMI-ACP) or PMP certification is strongly preferred.
- Experience in requirements intake and status management, including eliciting requirements from technical and business stakeholders, writing clear user stories with testable acceptance criteria, managing the intake-to-delivery pipeline, and producing recurring status reports and executive-ready summaries for leadership.
- Experience in technical documentation and training development, including authoring and refining runbooks, SOPs, process/architecture documentation, and knowledge base content, as well as defining role-based training requirements and building associated training materials.
Nice to Have Skills and Experience: - Familiarity with PKI/certificate lifecycle concepts, SIEM/security analytics, or endpoint platforms.
- Exposure to aviation, OT, cyber-physical, or embedded systems.
- Experience using AI/agentic tools (e.g., Claude, Copilot) to accelerate documentation, requirements drafting, and reporting.
- Knowledge of aviation security standards (e.g., DO-326A/DO-355A, ATA Spec 42) or NIST risk frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-30, CSF).
- Experience with vendor and third-party risk coordination using tools like OneTrust or similar.
- Proficiency in Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint, Power BI, or similar reporting tools.
- Background in instructional design or technical writing.
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Pay Range: $65 - $70
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