About the Role: 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:
- Pre-sale
- Contracting
- Project start
- Project Planning and Execution
- Team Management
- Self-management
Qualifications:
- Master's Degree in computer science or similar education
- Certification advantage: PMP / PRINCE2 / SAFe, plus one of CISSP, CISM, CRISC, or CISA
Required Skills:
- 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 and 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:
- Verbal and written business communication skills
- Presentation skills, including to executive and risk-committee audiences
- Negotiation skills
Preferred Skills:
- 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
