Description

Responsibilities:

Program Leadership & Governance

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of the Security Hub program.
• Establish and manage program governance structures, steering committees, and executive review forums.
• Drive alignment across business, security, technology, risk, compliance, and operational stakeholders.
• Ensure adherence to project governance, quality standards, and delivery methodologies.
• Facilitate executive decision-making and issue resolution.

Program Planning & Delivery Management

• Develop and maintain integrated program plans, schedules, milestones, and resource forecasts.
• Manage project scope, deliverables, assumptions, dependencies, and constraints.
• Coordinate activities across architecture, engineering, integration, data, SRE, and business teams.
• Monitor delivery progress against approved milestones and commitments.
• Ensure successful completion of Phase 1 (Q3 2026) and Phase 2 (Q4 2026) objectives.

Stakeholder & Executive Management

• Serve as the primary point of contact between Client and Synechron leadership.
• Develop and manage stakeholder communication plans.
• Conduct weekly status meetings, steering committee sessions, and executive briefings.
• Manage escalations and facilitate timely issue resolution.
• Maintain alignment across business and technology organizations.

Financial & Resource Management

• Manage project budgets, forecasts, staffing plans, and resource utilization.
• Monitor program financial performance and delivery metrics.
• Coordinate onboarding and staffing activities across project teams.
• Support contract management, change requests, and scope adjustments.
• Ensure efficient allocation of project resources.

Risk, Issue & Dependency Management

• Establish and maintain risk, issue, decision, and dependency logs.
• Proactively identify and mitigate delivery risks.
• Manage cross-functional and external dependencies.
• Escalate critical risks and issues to leadership when required.
• Ensure contingency and recovery plans are maintained.

Delivery Oversight & Quality Management

• Ensure deliverables meet contractual, technical, and quality expectations.
• Monitor milestone completion and client acceptance activities.
• Ensure compliance with client governance standards and project controls.
• Support audit readiness and delivery traceability requirements.
• Conduct regular delivery reviews and health checks.

Compliance & Regulatory Coordination

• Coordinate activities supporting governance, compliance, audit, and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure project deliverables support audit-ready evidence generation.
• Oversee control traceability and compliance reporting activities.
• Support examination readiness and stakeholder reporting requirements.

Operational Readiness & Hypercare

• Oversee production readiness planning and deployment activities.
• Coordinate training, knowledge transfer, and operational handoff activities.
• Manage hypercare support and stabilization efforts following go-live.
• Ensure successful transition to client operational support teams.
• Lead project closure and lessons-learned activities.

Requirements

You Are:

Experience

• 15+ years of program and project management experience.
• 10+ years managing large-scale cybersecurity, technology transformation, cloud, or infrastructure programs.
• Experience leading multi-million-dollar programs with distributed delivery teams.
• Experience delivering projects within highly regulated financial services environments.
• Proven success managing executive stakeholders and steering committees.

Program Management Skills

• Program Governance
• Strategic Planning
• Financial & Budget Management
• Resource Management
• Risk & Issue Management
• Vendor & Partner Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Executive Communications
• Change Management
• Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid Delivery Methodologies

Technical & Security Knowledge

• Cybersecurity Programs
• Security Operations & Governance
• Cloud Platforms & OpenShift
• Enterprise Integration Programs
• Security Controls & Compliance
• Identity & Access Management
• Operational Resilience
• Regulatory & Audit Programs

Tools

• Microsoft Project
• Jira / Azure DevOps
• Confluence
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Power BI
• ServiceNow

Preferred, but not required:

• PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, or equivalent certification.
• Experience delivering Security Operations, SIEM, SOAR, Security Hub, CNAPP, CSPM, or Governance platforms.
• Experience managing OpenShift, cloud security, or large-scale infrastructure programs.
• Previous experience supporting client or other major financial institutions.
• Experience managing global onshore/offshore delivery teams.
• Knowledge of NIST, CIS, ISO 27001, and regulatory compliance frameworks

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree