IT Program Manager

Location:  Hollywood, FL (onsite)

Position Summary

We are seeking a seasoned IT Program Manager to own the strategy, governance, and end-to-end delivery of a portfolio of large Information Security (cyber) programs. This role is accountable for the outcomes of multiple interdependent security initiatives — reducing enterprise risk, ensuring regulatory compliance, and strengthening the organization's cyber resilience across corporate, field, and operational environments.

You will lead and develop a team of Project Managers delivering against this portfolio, acting as the senior orchestrator across technology, security, operations, finance, and vendor partners — ensuring the full portfolio is delivered on time, within budget, and aligned to enterprise priorities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Strategic Planning:

• Own cross-portfolio planning and estimation across all Security programs; set the scope and sequencing framework the underlying project teams execute against.
• Drive scope and priority alignment across involved teams and executive leadership.

Prioritization & Portfolio Governance:

• Lead enterprise-level planning, estimation, and sequencing of security initiatives across the full portfolio.
• Own prioritization decisions when demand exceeds capacity; surface trade-offs and risks directly to executive leadership with recommended paths forward.
• Ensure alignment between security objectives, business outcomes, regulatory obligations, and resource constraints at the portfolio level.

Program & Portfolio Leadership:

• Own and lead the full portfolio of large, multi-track cybersecurity programs across Security and partner technology teams.
• Set program governance structure, cadence, and reporting standards used across all security initiatives in the portfolio.
• Ensure interdependencies, risks, scope boundaries, and critical path items are visible and actively managed across programs — not just within a single project.
• Oversee the Project Managers managing individual workstreams, ensuring dependencies across their projects are exposed and scope is well understood.
• Own portfolio-level status, ensuring risks are reviewed & mitigated, issues are escalated & resolved, and changes are documented & approved.
• Chair periodic portfolio synchronization meetings with key stakeholders to maintain a holistic, thorough view of the full security program.
• Own timely portfolio communication to all internal and external stakeholders (executive status reports, steering committees, resource managers, etc.).
• Lead review of the full security program/portfolio with Senior Management and key stakeholders.

Delivery & Execution Excellence:

• Own portfolio-wide progress tracking across all workstreams using enterprise PPM tools (e.g., Workfront, Jira).
• Ensure milestones, risks, issues, changes, and dependencies are documented, reviewed, and resolved across every program in the portfolio.
• Drive disciplined delivery through structured governance, steering committees, and leadership readouts.

Team Structure & Staffing:

• Design, build, and sustain a high-performing team of Project Managers to ensure flawless execution of enterprise security programs.
• Own resource capacity planning across internal teams and vendor partners, aligning skills, demand, and delivery milestones at the portfolio level.
• Proactively identify staffing gaps and constraints across the portfolio, recommending hiring, reallocation, or vendor augmentation to mitigate delivery risk.
• Lead, mentor, and develop the Project Managers on your team — setting clear expectations, fostering accountability, and building a bench of PM talent.

Budget Management:

• Own end-to-end financial management for the full security program portfolio, including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and benefits tracking.
• Ensure financial transparency and accuracy to meet departmental planning, reporting, and governance requirements.
• Partner with Finance and leadership to optimize spend, ensure value realization, and drive informed investment decisions across the portfolio.

Risk, Compliance & Stakeholder Alignment:

• Proactively identify and mitigate program, operational, and cyber risks at the portfolio level.
• Own regulatory and framework alignment (e.g., NIST, PCI DSS, ISO 27001) across all programs in scope.
• Build and maintain strong partnerships with Security, Infrastructure, Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, Business leaders, and third-party vendors.

Communications Management:

• Serve as the senior relationship owner between Security and technical/non-technical stakeholder groups across the full portfolio.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 6+ years of Information Security (cyber) program/project management experience
• 8+ years of Information Technology experience
• 8+ years of experience managing projects or programs, including direct or matrixed leadership of other PMs
• Program/Project Management certifications (PgMP, PMP, SAFe, etc. preferred)

Knowledge and Skills

• Executive-level communication and stakeholder management experience (excellent written & verbal skills required).
• Proven ability to influence without authority and lead effectively at the portfolio level.
• Strong governance, financial, and delivery discipline across multiple concurrent programs.
• Experience with enterprise infrastructure, including networks and platforms.
• Ability to operate in fast-paced, highly regulated environments.
• Demonstrated ability to build, lead, and develop a team of Project Managers.
• Deep & broad experience with IT environments and related technology applications.
• Proactive, self-starter able to ramp up quickly and operate with minimal oversight.
• Ability to adapt to shifting priorities and align a portfolio of activities to organizational goals.
• Expert with Microsoft Office suite.
• PPM tooling experience (e.g., Workfront, JIRA).
• Familiarity with information security frameworks such as NIST, PCI DSS, or ISO 27001.
• Owns portfolio outcomes and results; takes ultimate ownership of decisions and their outcomes across the team.

Financial Responsibilities

• Senior steward of security program portfolio budgets.
• Own forecasting, budgeting, and financial tracking across all assigned security programs.
• Partner with finance and leadership to ensure accurate planning, benefits realization, and cost transparency at the portfolio level.
• Forecast resource needs and ensure the full portfolio is properly staffed across internal teams and vendors.