Deputy Project Manager - Cyber Security

Job Title: Deputy Project Manager
Location: 335 Adams St Brooklyn, NY 11201.
Duration: Long term
Client: State Client
Lead and oversee project lifecycles, ensuring security initiatives are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with DOE compliance standards. Responsible for managing project schedules, mitigating risks, and coordinating cross-functional technical teams and stakeholders to ensure successful implementation of cybersecurity business objectives.
Key Requirements:
• Strong leadership in project planning, resource allocation, risk mitigation, and budget management. Exceptional ability to drive collaboration between technical engineers and executive stakeholders.
• Core Responsibilities: Proactive Risk Mitigation, Stakeholder Management, and managing the POA&M lifecycle for third-party and internal systems.
• Serve as the lead Project Manager for enterprise cybersecurity and IT risk initiatives, owning end-to-end project delivery from initiation through closeout in large, regulated environments.
• Drive core project management functions, including project planning, scope definition, scheduling, resource coordination, budget tracking, risk and issue management, and dependency oversight across multiple initiatives.
• Establish and manage project governance, ensuring adherence to CISO priorities, regulatory requirements, and NYCPS standards while maintaining clear documentation, controls, and delivery milestones.
• Coordinate and facilitate cross-functional execution, managing day-to-day collaboration between technical teams, business units, vendors, and senior leadership to keep projects on track.
• Oversee the POA&M lifecycle as a project deliverable, tracking remediation activities for internal systems and third-party vendors, managing timelines, and driving closure of security findings.
• Produce and deliver executive-ready project reporting, including status dashboards, risk and issue logs, dependency tracking, and escalation briefings for senior leadership.
• Ensure measurable project outcomes, driving accountability, resolving delivery blockers, and confirming that projects achieve defined cybersecurity, compliance, and risk-reduction objectives.
Experience: 5+ years
Certifications: PMP, CSM, ITIL-F
Technologies: MS Project, JIRA, Confluence, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Power BI, SharePoint, and Microsoft Office Suite.

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