Sr. Principal Program Manager - Fort Worth TX (Hybrid) - Face-to-Fce interview

Job Title: Sr. Principal Program Manager
Location: Fort Worth, TX (Hybrid)
Duration: Long-term
 
In-person interview
 
Description:

• Manages/oversees all aspects of multiple simultaneous fast-paced assigned initiatives with distributed teams.  With teams becoming more geographically dispersed, strong leadership and team-building skills are essential. 
• Leads IT initiatives throughout the entire project lifecycle (initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closure). 
• Develops and manages detailed project plans, manages project scope and sets milestones, manages budget, and tracks project status. 
• Ensures initiatives are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget 
• Designs and maintains project vision, project working standards, and agreements 
• Identifies potential risks and develops risk mitigation strategies. 
• Manages issues and troubleshoots problems that arise during the project lifecycle, ensuring minimal disruption to the project timeline. 
• Tracks, updates, and proactively communicates project status as it relates to project progress, budget/cost, resource utilization, change requests, issues, risks, and risk mitigation plans. 
• The ability to communicate complex technical concepts to various stakeholders 
• Ability to leverage data analytics for tracking project performance, optimizing processes, and making informed decisions that align with strategic goals.

 
Minimum Qualifications – Education & Prior Job Experience 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering, or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training 
• 11+ years of experience in IT project management or a related role.

 
Skills, Licenses, and Certifications

• Certified ScrumMaster or PMP (Project Management Professional) is a plus 
• Experience leading, coaching, and mentoring teams, with a strong focus on continuous improvement and developing self-organizing teams 
• Experience in a variety of computing platforms, such as mainframe, client/server, web, cloud, and social media 
• Experience in DevOps toolchain methodologies, including Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment 
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Tools (Project, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint) and project management software 
• Skills in leadership; team-focused with high energy and a positive attitude 
• Skills in analytics, estimating, and problem-solving 
• Ability to think strategically and develop tactical methods to achieve objectives and goals 
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with team members, customers, and external groups, as well as working in a collaborative environment with geographically dispersed resources.

 
Top Requirements:

• 11+ total years in technical project management or delivery management.
• 5+ years in technical project management or delivery management supporting cybersecurity, IT infrastructure, or engineering teams (not general business/administrative PM experience), including hands-on facilitation of agile ceremonies and ownership of technical documentation.
• Technical project coordination & agile facilitation — 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 (Jira, Rally). Scrum certification (CSM, PSM, PMI-ACP) or PMP strongly preferred.
• Requirements intake & status management — eliciting requirements directly from technical and business stakeholders, writing clear user stories with testable acceptance criteria, managing the intake-to-delivery pipeline, and producing recurring status reporting and executive-ready summaries for leadership.
• Technical documentation & training development — authoring and refining runbooks, SOPs, process/architecture documentation, and knowledge base content, plus defining role-based training requirements and building and maintaining the associated training materials.

 
Nice to Have Skills and Experience:

• Working familiarity with PKI/certificate lifecycle concepts, SIEM/security analytics, or endpoint platforms — enough to speak the team’s language
• aviation / OT / cyber-physical or embedded-systems exposure
• Use of AI/agentic tooling (e.g., Claude, Copilot) to accelerate documentation, requirements drafting, and reporting per CISO AI direction; aviation security standards (DO-326A/DO-355A, ATA Spec 42) or NIST risk frameworks (NIST 800-30, CSF)
• Vendor and third-party risk coordination (OneTrust or similar)
• Microsoft 365 / Teams / SharePoint, Power BI, or similar reporting tools; instructional design or technical writing background.