Job Description
On behalf of our client, Affinity is seeking a Cybersecurity Program Manager for a 12 month contract. Candidates must be located in the lower mainland.
An established organization is seeking an experienced Program Manager to lead an enterprise cybersecurity program focused on strengthening security and organizational resilience. The successful candidate will work closely with senior leadership, technical and business teams, contractors, and sponsoring departments to deliver complex technology initiatives.
This role requires extensive experience managing large-scale IT programs, particularly those involving infrastructure and security-related projects. The ideal candidate will have strong program governance, business case development, financial management, and stakeholder leadership skills.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the full program and project lifecycle, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, control, and closure.
- Develop business cases, project charters, feasibility documentation, work breakdown structures, schedules, budgets, and integrated project management plans.
- Manage scope, schedule, financials, procurement, quality, risks, issues, resources, and change requests.
- Establish and maintain governance structures, including steering committees and technical advisory committees.
- Lead cross-functional teams of internal staff, contractors, Business Analysts, Data Analysts, Developers, and QA Analysts.
- Oversee technical delivery across design, development, testing, deployment, and change management.
- Manage vendor relationships, complex contracts, subcontractors, and supplier performance.
- Prepare monthly status reports, executive updates, budget forecasts, risk registers, and steering committee materials.
- Ensure adherence to established project management methodologies, templates, and governance requirements.
- Coordinate activities across interrelated projects and maintain alignment with broader program objectives.
- Support organizational change management and successful project closeout.
Required Qualifications And Experience
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business Administration or Computer Science.
- Proven program management experience.
- 8–10+ years of full-lifecycle technology project management experience, ideally across software development lifecycle initiatives from requirements and design through development, testing, training, and cutover.
- Experience managing projects with budgets exceeding $2 million and teams of more than 10 people.
- Strong experience managing risks, issues, scope, schedules, resources, budgets, quality, and change.
- Experience managing complex contracts and coordinating multiple related projects.
- Proven ability to lead interdisciplinary technical and business teams.
- Extensive stakeholder management experience, including consultation, consensus-building, and executive communications.
- Experience gathering and analyzing business and technical requirements.
- Experience delivering enterprise technology solutions and business process improvements.
- Strong written and verbal communication, organizational, and leadership skills.
- Experience with Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, and SharePoint.
Preferred Qualifications
- Cybersecurity and/or information security experience.
- PMP certification.
- Experience with organizational change management.
- Experience delivering large-scale enterprise IT infrastructure or security initiatives.
