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About the Role - Technology Compliance Program Manager
HIGHLIGHTS
Location: Hybrid - San Francisco, CA
Position Type: Contract
Hourly / Salary: Based on experience $140-$175K
Residency Status: US Citizen or Green Card Holder ONLY
Responsibilities
- Understands Portfolio priorities and drives successful business outcomes within the program and aligned projects.
- Manage all aspects of multiple interrelated projects within the program to ensure the overall program is aligned to and directly supports the achievement of strategic business objectives.
- Align project/program plans and interdependencies to ensure Program Roadmap success and Resources capacity.
- Performs program level governance review of all associated projects to ensure they are tracking to be on time, within budget, and defect free to ensure customer value commitment.
- Monitor projects on an ongoing basis, evaluating progress, proactively works with project teams mitigating risk and effective issue resolution across program.
- Establishes best practices, templates, policies, tools, and partnerships in partnership with Security to expand, mature and improve effectiveness in support of meeting business objectives around remediation of identified compliance programs /projects.
- Engages cross project interdependency scheduling to ensure project interdependencies are documented and tracked including defining critical program level milestones within each project for visibility.
- Works with individual departments to identify process efficiencies and automation opportunities to reduce effort expended on vulnerability management.
- Acts as a first point of contact intermediary with Security to socialize, prioritize, initiate, and organize all new program requirements.
- Supports all internal and externally driven audits of projects within program.
- Provides effective leadership and coaching to all stakeholders ensuring effective delivery of project/program outcomes in terms of cost, schedule, budget and quality.
- Creates and maintains master program plan for all active aligned projects and status reporting regarding program level milestones, success criteria, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, effectively communicating including executive leadership.
- Manages deliverables including the evaluation and implementation of controls to meet requirements and ensure compliance with new relevant frameworks, regulatory requirements, contract requirements, etc.
- Engages business owners throughout the organization in compliance planning and adherence to all published KPIs and controls.
- Provides summary and detailed reporting on all remediation efforts, current tracking to KPIs to internal stakeholders in addition to formal presentations to external stakeholders.
- Performs extensive data validation/analysis.
- Proactively identifies and mitigates risks or issues that may impact the company's ability to remediate compliance findings in a timely manner (Vulnerability, Configuration, Container compliance, etc).
- Supports the company's commitment to risk management to protect the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.
Qualifications
- Education and experience typically obtained through completion of a bachelor's degree in project management and/or Computer Science or related field.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or related certifications or equivalent work experience
- Minimum of 12 or more years of related experience in program management
- Demonstrated program management experience and people leadership and mentorship in business and technical environments.
- Experience in financial institutions or similarly regulatory industries and/or software development processes with background in the data processing environment, application systems, and communication systems.
- Ability to handle multiple complex projects within program / programs, to work independently, have excellent follow-up, and meet tight deadlines for deliverables. Possess excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities and be able to deal effectively with ambiguity and constant change.
- Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal skills to interact proficiently with executive leadership, staff, and vendors.
- Proactive in identifying and driving process improvements and documenting efficiency gains within the organization.
- Demonstrated experience with Agile and Waterfall methodologies and all aspects of the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology and tools.
- Background and drug screen.
Required Skills
- Experience in working with large data sets and be able to rationalize large bodies of data into actionable components.
- Knowledge of IT policy and compliance best practices.
- A strong and broad understanding of compliance laws, regulations and industry standards related to program focus area.
- Agile / ScrumMaster certifications
- Lean Six Sigma certification.
- Experience with people management
Preferred Skills
- Physical Requirements: Our client works together in a highly collaborative office environment. Working conditions consist of a normal office environment.
- Work is primarily sedentary and requires extensive use of a computer and involves sitting for periods of approximately four hours.
- Work may require occasional standing, walking, kneeling, and reaching. Must be able to lift 10 pounds occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently.
- Requires visual acuity and dexterity to view, prepare, and manipulate documents and office equipment including personal computers.
- Requires the ability to communicate with internal and/or external customers.
- Employee must be able to perform essential functions and physical requirements of position with or without reasonable accommodation.