Program Manager, Principal

Your Role 

This role supports Stellarus within the Ascendiun Family of Companies.  The Risk Management & Controls Assurance team delivers actionable insights by quantifying IT and business risk to increase resilience while driving a security culture. This Program Manager, Principal role will report to the Senior Manager. In this role you will develop, provide oversight, and support a governance process to ensure compliance of the Technology Ownership & Accountability policy.

Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow – personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.  

Your Work

In this role, you will: 

Program Leadership

• Operate at a strategic business level to ensure initiatives are in line with Stellarus strategic goals
• Consult with all levels including senior management, make recommendations, and influence decision-making

Program Execution

• Coordinate with leadership and build business cases to support short-term and long-term goals
• Leverage cross-functional internal and external relationships to drive initiatives forward
• Plan and implement multiple and extremely complex projects/programs spanning across business areas
• Determine key business issues, develop effective action plans and implement to successful conclusion
• Work with Finance and IT leadership to define financial investment model for technologies based on levers such as risk reduction and cost savings

Governance & Compliance 

• Partner with teams across IT to design and implement an IT technology ownership governance process

• Oversee and manage said governance process, including key performance indicators and objective and key risks

• Drive risk mitigation of IT controls to ensure application security

Process & Technology Risk Reduction

• Coordinate and build process/artificial intelligence agents to support application of critical controls in reducing technology risks and increasing business resiliency.

• Coordinate and build process/AI agents to support application of controls to reduce risk and increase technology resiliency

• Partner with Risk Management team to define security control baseline & ensure applications adhere to said baseline

Lean -Agile Enablement

• Promote Lean-Agile principles to enable business agility, focusing on alignment, transparency, respect for people, and relentless improvement

• Other duties as assigned

Your Knowledge and Experience 

• Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

• Requires at least 10 years of prior relevant experience

• Experience in portfolio management, preferably within an Agile or SAFe environment, scrum master experience is a plus

• Experience partnering with all levels of management required

• Driven, energetic, team player with superior oral and written communication skills

• Organizational change management skills desired

• Requires deep understanding of IT control frameworks such as NIST, COBIT, ISO27001 to drive ownership and compliance in safeguarding assets and data

• Desire one or more of the following: CRISC (Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control), CISM (Certified Information Security Manager), CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor), CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional)

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