Cybersecurity Deputy Project Manager

Job Family:

Management Consulting

Travel Required:

Up to 10%

Clearance Required:

Ability to Obtain Secret

What You Will Do:

 

Our Cybersecurity Consultants are a team of business integrators with extensive consulting and industry experience who help our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy through execution. The Cybersecurity Deputy Project Manager will support management of a large Federal Cybersecurity engagement. This includes overseeing the planning, transition, design, development, testing, deployment and sustainment of an enterprise identity and credentialing system, coordinating with technical leads and support teams to ensure the inclusion of necessary milestones, and managing a diverse team of geographically distributed support staff, including subcontractors. The candidate will develop and maintain primary senior customer relationships at multiple levels of the organization, meet with the customer to review plans, progress, deliverables, etc., and ensure alignment with contractual responsibilities. The Cybersecurity PM will support the Program Manager and will drive the planning and execution of staff activity with the technical leads and federal clients, identifying appropriate personnel assignments to support execution of those activities in line with the program master schedule, and apply a variety of management, conflict resolution and risk mitigation techniques to resolve project, implementation, deployment, and transition issues for internal and external stakeholders.

What You Will Need: 

• Minimum Experience: 10+ years of consulting experience within the DoD or Federal space
• Minimum Experience: 8+ years of program or project management experience within the DoD or Federal space
• Minimum Clearance: US Citizen with aAbility to obtain Secret
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution
• 8+ years of managing high performing teams
• Ability to manage multiple objectives concurrently
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Proven ability to effectively communicate with Government customer stakeholders on current cybersecurity topics including but limited to: Zero Trust Architecture, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Regulatory Compliance, Cloud & Mobility Security, Data Security
• Proven experience effectively prioritizing workload to meet deadlines and work objectives in a complex and dynamic environment
• Demonstrated ability to write clearly, succinctly, and in a manner that appeals to a wide audience
• Expert level experience with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Experience managing teams supporting multiple business and technical elements of system design, development, operation and expansion
• Experience overseeing enterprise IT modernization or migration engagements
• Program Management experience overseeing data management and migration, infrastructure architecture and management, and integration with other enterprise services, especially password management, directory management and synchronizing, and user provisioning
• Expert-level proficiency of MS Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
• Preference will be given to candidates who reside within a reasonable number of miles of a Guidehouse Office

What Would Be Nice To Have: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science
• Current PMI PMP Certification
• Security + or other cybersecurity-related certification
• Experience managing projects related to Identity Management, PIV Credentialing Systems, IAM Architecture, Privileged Access Management, and other IAM solutions
• Knowledge of guidance and documentation for IAM-related security policies, procedures, and guidelines
• Experience developing and briefing materials and executive summaries on IAM architecture, implementation, and policy
• Experience with critical Federal mandates, such as: Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD 12), FIPS 140-2, FIPS 201-2, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM), Executive Orders related to cybersecurity, and guidance from OMB and NIST
• Experience in HSPD-12 / PIV system business processes as well as engineering and design

**This posting is not for immediate hire. Future hire potentially Q1 2025.

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