Sr IT Program Manager

Job Summary

The Sr Manager, Cybersecurity Program Management oversees the cybersecurity portfolio, including program/project management, strategy, performance management, change management, vendor relationships, financial management, and metrics. Reporting into the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), (s) he coordinates across all business lines and service departments to lead and support projects across Cybersecurity (e.g. Governance, Risk, and Compliance; Operations; Identity Security; Engineering and Architecture; Operational Technologies) through creating and maintaining projects, developing and generating metrics, and building and strengthening relationships with key partners.

(S) he will have the opportunity to have a significant impact by interfacing with peers in Information Technology (IT) and with business leaders to both share the enterprise cybersecurity vision with those individuals and to solicit their involvement in achieving higher levels of enterprise security through information sharing and cooperation. (S) he will be responsible for multiple discrete projects/enhancements to build, maintain, and mature capabilities, including people, processes, and technologies.

(S) he will engage across the entire IT, OT, and managed services landscapes, including leading a team across these environments.

• Directs internal/external cyber resources on Cybersecurity technologies, including program/project management, strategy, performance management, change management, vendor relationships, financial management, and metrics for all lines of business and service departments for both IT and OT landscapes.
• Ensure that Cybersecurity service delivery aligns with the corporate IT strategy, including Cybersecurity standards, capacity planning, lifecycle management plans, solution selection, and partner management.
• Ensure scalability of Cybersecurity capabilities, including hardware and software, to meet business needs and risk tolerances.
• Develops and implements best practices for PSEG Cybersecurity Program Management capabilities.
• Participate in external risk organizations (including with peer groups) to learn from other organizations and to benchmark our program.
• Partner with professional Cybersecurity associations, service providers, and to identify and implement best practices.
• Builds relationships across PSEG business and technology teams.
• Interacts routinely with vendors, service providers, consultants/advisors, and cross-sector cyber industry trade organizations.
• Ensures that cyber requirements are identified, well defined, properly documented, and approved by appropriate stakeholders.
• Develops, manages, and pre-prioritizes Cybersecurity CAPEX and OPEX budgets based on business needs and cyber threats.
• Lead the identification of optimal OPEX and CAPEX allocations, including opportunities to reduce expenditures while transforming PSEG Cybersecurity.
• Lead and advise on business case development.
• Leads team, including performance evaluations, career development guidance, and other aspects to grow the talent pipeline and to mature our program.
• Leads and manages programs by coordinating activities and delivery across multiple, related projects or work streams that span technology and areas.
• Ensures program meets schedule and scope targets.
• Identifies, develops mitigation plans, and monitors to drive timely and effective escalation and risk/issue resolution. Manages and/or escalates issues and/or complications, and responds well to time pressures.
• Tracks dependencies and risks, and assessing change impact across interdependent work streams and projects.
• Captures all pertinent actions and decisions.
• Provides oversight and guidance to those managing smaller projects within specific business unit domain.
• Oversees project resources to deliver required project artifacts/goals.
• Uses effective people engagement skills to drive contact with stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle to manage expectations, establish timelines, and grow relationships.
• Ensures alignment on scope, value proposition and overall project goals.
• Works with functional departments to coordinate systems testing,…