Job Details

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

• Team Coordination and Cross Work Stream Interaction.
• Facilitate coordination between cross functional teams and work streams to ensure effective communication, knowledge sharing, and alignment across departments.
• Drive collaboration between different teams, ensuring that each work stream is on track, with clear ownership and timelines.
• ct as the main point of contact between work streams, ensuring that dependencies between teams are identified and managed proactively.

Project Oversight and Progress Monitoring:

• Develop comprehensive project plans that outline clear goals, milestones, deadlines, and responsibilities across multiple work streams.
• Track the progress of all work streams within a project, ensuring that individual streams align with overall project objectives and timelines.
• ddress any delays or issues that arise, ensuring smooth project progression and that any interdependencies are handled efficiently.

Resource Allocation and Bandwidth Management:

• Monitor team capacity and bandwidth across work streams to ensure that resources are optimally allocated and that no team or individual is overburdened.
• Reallocate resources as needed to maintain a balanced workload and ensure highpriority tasks are completed on time.
• Ensure alignment of resources across multiple work streams to avoid conflicts and optimize productivity.

Performance Tracking and Evaluation:

• Continuously monitor and evaluate the performance of teams and work streams, using data to assess productivity and identify areas for improvement.
• Provide regular feedback to team members and work stream leaders, identifying opportunities for process improvements or resource adjustments.
• Report on the status of project deliverables and team performance to senior leadership, offering insights and actionable recommendations.

Task Progression and Outcome Evaluation:

• Ensure the timely completion of tasks across work streams, making adjustments as needed to accommodate shifts in priorities or resources.
• Evaluate the outcomes of completed projects, identifying key successes and areas for future improvement.

Risk, Security and Issue Management:

• Proactively identify and address potential risks, including cybersecurity vulnerabilities or compliance issues, that may affect the progress or quality of work across different work streams.
• Develop risk mitigation plans and implement corrective actions promptly to keep projects on course.
• Ensure that all project risks, including those related to security policies and data protection, are communicated to stakeholders in a timely manner.
• Maintain familiarity with state agency security regulations and ensure that applications and systems comply with applicable state and federal security policies and standards.

Security Collaboration and Guidance:

• Work closely with enterprise security teams to review and validate security architecture for applications across cloud, on premises, and hybrid environments.
• Provide ongoing security guidance to application development and DevOps teams, ensuring adherence to security best practices throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Collaborate on the implementation of secure CI/CD pipelines, integrating security checks such as static/dynamic code analysis, secrets scanning, and artifact integrity verification.
• Guide teams on proper configuration and use of cloud security services (e.g., IAM, encryption, network security controls) in platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• ssist in developing and enforcing infrastructure security standards, including secure provisioning, patch management, and hardening of resources across environments.
• Participate in threat modeling and security risk assessments to proactively identify and mitigate vulnerabilities in application design and deployment strategies.

Vendor Management and Collaboration:

• Oversee relationships with external vendors, ensuring they deliver products and services on time and within agreed upon terms.
• Collaborate with vendors to resolve any project related issues and ensure that their deliverables meet organizational and security standards.
• Ensure that vendor engagements include appropriate security clauses, and that vendors adhere to statemandated cybersecurity practices.

Continuous Improvement and Process Optimization:

• Identify opportunities to streamline workflows across work streams, improve communication, and increase efficiency.
• Implement best practices and process improvements to optimize project execution, resource allocation, and team collaboration.
• Continuously integrate security best practices into the application lifecycle and project management methodologies.

Qualifications:

• 10+years' experience in application management, project oversight, and cross functional team coordination.
• Strong leadership and organizational skills with a demonstrated ability to manage and oversee multiple teams and work streams simultaneously.
• Proven experience collaborating with security architects and engineering teams to ensure secure application design and deployment.
• Strong understanding of cloud security principles, including identity management, encryption, and network segmentation.
• Experience with secure CI/CD practices and infrastructureascode security controls (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, GitOps).
• Familiarity with security tools and platforms, container security, vulnerability management, and SIEM systems.
• Demonstrated experience with cybersecurity principles, secure application development, and compliance with state agency IT security policies.
• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks such as NIST, HIPAA, CJIS, or other relevant government security standards.
• Experience in vendor management, including negotiation, performance tracking, and contract management.
• Expertise in project management tools and methodologies, with the ability to track performance and optimize resources effectively.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to drive cross functional collaboration and manage complex relationships.
• Strong problem solving skills and the ability to manage risks and resolve issues in a timely manner.