Senior IT Risk Project Manager

Project description

Modernization as a Service (MaaS) is a cross-functional practice that supports all business verticals within the company.

We are seeking a Senior IT Risk Project Manager to join our project for a leading US financial institution.

Responsibilities

• - Ensure successful delivery of projects
• Achieve financial targets
• Manage stakeholders' expectations
• Drive presales & business development activities
• People management activities
• Project manager activities:

1. Project start

2. Project Planning and Execution

3. Team Management

4. Self-management

SKILLS

Must have

• Core project management:
• 7+ years of professional experience in software development projects and management
• 5+ years of experience in large scale Project/Program management
• Proven track record in complex projects with global, distributed teams
• People management experience for 20+ FTEs
• Good understanding of program financials and reporting
• Good understanding of project manager areas of responsibility:

Project Planning

Backlog prioritization, detailing and decomposition

Understanding of SDLC and ability to build/optimize project processes

Communication with the team, client

Understanding of motivation factors

Team Management

Result-oriented

Working with feedback: provide and receive

Risk management

• Demonstrable experience running IT risk, security, or compliance-driven programmes - not only feature delivery
• Ability to build and maintain a risk register: identification, qualification, scoring, mitigation planning, ownership assignment, and escalation
• Experience coordinating remediation programmes across multiple engineering teams (patching, vulnerability closure, control implementation) and tracking them to measurable closure
• Comfortable operating with audit, InfoSec, and compliance stakeholders; experience preparing evidence and status for governance forums or steering committees
• Working knowledge of at least one control or risk framework (NIST CSF/RMF, ISO 27001, CIS Controls, SOC 2, or similar)
• Ability to translate technical findings into business impact and risk-based prioritization for senior stakeholders

Soft skills and education

• Verbal and written business communication skills
• Presentation skills, including to executive and risk-committee audiences
• Negotiation skills
• Master's Degree in computer science or similar education
• Certification advantage: PMP / PRINCE2 / SAFe, plus one of CISSP, CISM, CRISC, or CISA

Nice to have

• Familiarity with security vulnerability management: CVE/CVSS, severity triage, SLA-based remediation cycles
• Exposure to penetration testing engagements - scoping, vendor coordination, findings review, retest tracking
• Understanding of AI/GenAI risk: model and data governance, AI risk scans and assessments, prompt injection and data leakage exposure, third-party AI tooling review
• Awareness of emerging AI governance and regulation (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF) and how it lands on delivery teams
• Understanding of secure SDLC practices: SAST/DAST/SCA, dependency and supply chain risk, threat modelling