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Senior Principal, Tech Program Manager - Cybersecurity Portfolio Lead

The Northern Trust is seeking a Senior Principal Tech Program Manager to lead its portfolio of cybersecurity initiatives and ensure that strategic goals are achieved by coordinating multiple technology transformations.

Tasks

  • As a Senior Leader/Workforce Leader, define the strategy and executive direction and ensure that the program roadmap and objectives are followed.
  • Lead a team of project managers and implement a technology management methodology; execute programs using a portfolio of experienced suppliers.
  • Ensure portfolio project management at the local cybersecurity team level and guarantee the delivery of projects across the entire portfolio.
  • Lead the successful further development of highly specialized cybersecurity solutions across cross-functional business units.
  • Ensure compliance with contractual, regulatory, and other organizational requirements.
  • Reporting to senior leaders in various business units.
  • Identify and increase engagement in program interactions to ensure that:
    • The cybersecurity management strategy is designed, implemented, and scaled, including the development of toolkits that can influence delivery.
    • Stakeholders and their expectations are identified, and their ability to influence the program and its objectives is understood and assessed.
    • Program integrations are developed and implemented across the entire program, including key operational cycles, and contributions are made to long-term product, quality, and timing functions.
    • Enterprise-level risk, compliance, and cost management considerations arising from internal remediation programs, changes, and enterprise interactions are managed.
  • Collaborate with Organizational Change Management (OCM) at the technology and engineering levels to ensure smooth transitions and adoption.
  • Work on the program in collaboration with internal partners (SAP, Infrastructure, Network, Data Center, Security, Applications, and other functional resources).
  • Ensure alignment with enterprise change management processes and procedures.
  • To serve as a central virtual program level for addressing inquiries regarding impacts, magnitudes, changes, or modifications within a Change Steering Committee.
  • Seamless and effective collaboration with the team, willingness to take risks and/or make decisions, evaluating feedback from stakeholders, and ensuring that responses are incorporated into strategic planning.
  • Provide feedback to the team and at the management level, focusing on an experience that supports project participants, benefits, and key performance indicators.
  • Serve as the program lead for cross-functional teams.

Requirements

  • A technically strong candidate with at least 10 years of practical experience in project management, specifically in customer testing cycles.
  • Experience in cybersecurity, risk management, or capital operations, with the necessary understanding of networks, vulnerabilities, protocols, and operational requirements.
  • Experience leading critical programs within the automotive sector, including Enterprise Defense, Development Policy (DC/DL), SAS, data management, and other DevOps- and Agile-based approaches.
  • Knowledge of Jira, data integrity, and version control, which facilitate high-speed, modern development.
  • In-depth knowledge of software and firmware integration practices (UCS).
  • Knowledge of testing processes, development, and integration, as well as extensive experience.
  • Familiarity with the fundamentals of security technology, which may include (but are not limited to) cybersecurity, network security, operating environment research, application security, integrity, and digital signatures (authentication).
  • Cybersecurity skills—the ability to handle multiple concurrent use cases and best practices from secondary sources.
  • Discrete Mission – involves a defined mission with a long-term solution; consists of

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