Note: Candidate is required to come in office - 3 days a week

Must haves:

• Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high-risk network-security focused deployment and migration projects for OPS I&IT initiatives.

Description

• Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high-risk network-security focused deployment and migration projects for OPS I&IT initiatives.
• Ensures project deliverables meet clients' business requirements on time, scope, and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.
• Works closely with internal OPS teams and vendors to ensure the successful acceptance, timely execution, and day-2 supportability and operability of all project changes and deliverables.

In this role the Senior Project Manager will:

• Provide senior project management oversight and support for cyber security platforms that are currently being deployed and rolled out within the OPS over 2025-26 fiscal year.
• In addition, to lead and provide project management support for smaller security-focused projects, initiatives or iterative improvements as required based on need and capacity throughout the year.
• Provide the resource capacity required to lead:
  • Palo Alto Prisma Access, Always on VPN and Secure Service Edge related projects or sprints.
  • Other Network security and firewall related migration and improvement related projects and initiatives

Skills

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Strategic Planning - 85%

• Analytical - 20%
  • Attention to Detail
  • Calculating Costs for Implementation
  • Critical Thinking
  • Defining Mechanisms for Input
  • Defining Purpose of the Strategic Planning Process
  • Developing a Plan for Implementing Strategies
  • Logical Thinking
• Communication - 25%
  • Facilitating Group Discussion
  • Creating Mission/Vision Statements
  • Engaging Reluctant Members in Discussions
  • Negotiation
  • People Skills
  • Persuasiveness
  • Pitching
  • Public Speaking
  • Presentation / MS PowerPoint
  • Active Listening
• Decisiveness - 15%
  • Building Consensus
  • Establishing Measurable Objectives for Goals/Projects
  • Creating and Enforcing Timelines
  • Prioritizing
  • Goal Oriented
• Problem Solving - 25%
  • Aligning Business Practices with Emerging Strategy
  • Assessment
  • Brainstorming
  • Creativity
  • Evaluation
  • Identifying Obstacles
  • Problem Sensitivity
  • Multitasking
  • Stress Tolerance

Agile Project Delivery - 15%

• Experience working on agile project delivery teams
• Working Experience with:
• Backlog
• User Stories
• Scrum
• Sprints