Project Manager – Zero Trust Strategy & Roadmap

American IT Systems•Houston, TX

5d•Onsite

About The Position

This role is for a Project Manager focused on developing and executing an enterprise Zero Trust Strategy and Roadmap. The position involves coordinating maturity assessments, facilitating workshops, managing workstreams, and developing implementation plans. The Project Manager will also be responsible for tracking progress, reporting to leadership, and ensuring adherence to project management standards.

Requirements

8–10+ years of Project/Program Management experience, preferably supporting enterprise cybersecurity, infrastructure, technology strategy, or transformation initiatives.
Demonstrated experience managing large, cross-functional cybersecurity or enterprise technology programs involving multiple technical and business stakeholders.
Working knowledge of Zero Trust security concepts and frameworks, including identity, endpoint, application, network, data security, ZTNA, SASE, and related security capabilities.
Strong experience with project planning, workshop coordination, RAID management, stakeholder governance, roadmap tracking, executive reporting, and delivery management.
Excellent communication and executive presentation skills, with the ability to work effectively with Cybersecurity, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, IT/OT, Application, Data, and business leadership teams.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting Zero Trust maturity assessments, strategy development, capability assessments, or enterprise security roadmaps.
Experience working with cybersecurity frameworks such as NIST or similar enterprise security frameworks.
PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, or equivalent project management certification.
Experience using Azure DevOps, Jira, Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, Power BI, or similar tools for project planning, tracking, dashboards, and reporting.
Experience working in large, regulated, or critical-infrastructure enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

Lead day-to-day project management activities supporting the development and execution of the enterprise Zero Trust Strategy and Roadmap.
Coordinate current-state maturity assessments across identity, endpoint, application, network, data, and security domains, ensuring activities, inputs, and deliverables remain on schedule.
Schedule and facilitate workshops and working sessions with cybersecurity, infrastructure, application, network, data, architecture, and business stakeholders.
Coordinate development of future-state Zero Trust principles, guiding standards, target-state capabilities, and strategic recommendations.
Manage workstreams covering Identity, Endpoint, Application, Network, and Data Security, ensuring alignment with the overall Zero Trust strategy.
Coordinate Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), ZTNA, and BeyondCorp strategy and related technology assessment activities.
Support alignment of IT and OT security requirements and ensure relevant considerations are incorporated into the enterprise Zero Trust strategy.
Coordinate development of the Zero Trust governance, ownership, operating model, and accountability framework across participating organizations.
Track capability assessments, maturity gaps, dependencies, risks, decisions, and action items across multiple Zero Trust workstreams.
Develop and maintain the phased Zero Trust implementation roadmap, including milestones, sequencing, dependencies, priorities, and implementation timelines.
Coordinate development of executive scorecards, success metrics, KPIs, and progress reporting to provide leadership with visibility into Zero Trust strategy execution.
Facilitate governance meetings, document decisions and action items, drive follow-ups, and ensure timely closure of outstanding activities.
Prepare executive-ready status reports, presentations, dashboards, and roadmap updates for CIO/CISO-level and senior IT leadership stakeholders.
Manage project schedules, resources, dependencies, risks, issues, and deliverables while ensuring adherence to established PMO governance and reporting standards.