Technical Project Manager, Senior Specialist

Vanguard•Malvern, PA

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

Vanguard is seeking a Technical Project Manager, Senior Specialist to lead the overall Zero Trust program plan, roadmap, and delivery cadence across all workstreams. This role involves translating strategy into clear execution plans, milestones, and measurable outcomes aligned to enterprise OKRs. The position requires defining, tracking, and reporting workstream-level OKRs and KPIs, and producing executive updates for senior leadership. The Technical Project Manager will serve as the single coordination point across various security and architecture teams, manage delivery alignment with strategic partners and vendors, and oversee PKI modernization initiatives and PQC readiness activities. Additionally, the role involves managing Zero Trust readiness assessments, financial governance, and ensuring Zero Trust initiatives are audit-aware and defensible. Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of its crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in program or portfolio management within cybersecurity, IAM, or enterprise technology.
Demonstrated experience running large, cross-functional security programs with multiple technical workstreams.
Strong understanding of Zero Trust principles.
Proven ability to communicate complex initiatives in clear, executive-level language.
Experience working with external vendors and consulting partners.
Undergraduate degree in related field (Computer Science, Engineering) required.

Nice To Haves

Graduate degree preferred.

Responsibilities

Manage technology-related programs or major technical workstream of a broader program, ensuring alignment with business priorities and proper measurement of business value.
Develop and maintain broad knowledge of the Financial Services industry, competition, and trends to assess program viability and strategies.
Monitor financial, legal, and regulatory environments to ensure strategies align with company strategy and market conditions.
Communicate with stakeholders, leaders, team members, management, and department partners to ensure understanding of requirements and priorities.
Monitor project progress and results, submitting regular status reports to management and stakeholders.
Ensure the development and execution of change management and communication plans.
Build and maintain relationships across program stakeholders and foster effective communication between internal and external parties.
Drive key decisions to ensure alignment with overarching goals across stakeholders.
Ensure all steps are taken to mitigate risk and maintain control, compliance, audit, and legal requirements on technology projects.
Maintain an appropriate level of technical and business knowledge to support program implementation.
Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.
Own the overall Zero Trust program plan, roadmap, and delivery cadence across all workstreams.
Translate strategy into clear execution plans, milestones, and measurable outcomes aligned to enterprise OKRs.
Define, track, and report workstream-level OKRs and KPIs in partnership with engineering and architecture leads.
Produce monthly, quarterly, and ad-hoc executive updates for senior leadership, emphasizing risk reduction, business enablement, delivery confidence, and emerging dependencies or decisions required.
Serve as the single coordination point across IAM Engineering, PKI, Cloud Security, Architecture, GRC, and Audit teams.
Manage delivery alignment with strategic partners and vendors supporting the Zero Trust program.
Ensure clear ownership models, RACI clarity, and handoffs between investment work and BAU operations.
Provide execution oversight of PKI modernization initiatives.
Track and drive PQC readiness activities, including cryptographic inventory, roadmap execution, and alignment with regulatory and industry guidance.
Manage Zero Trust readiness assessments and maturity modeling activities.
Coordinate definition of target-state personas, use cases, and policy-as-code approaches in collaboration with architecture and engineering teams.
Ensure assessment outcomes translate into prioritized execution plans.
Partner with finance and PMO teams to track Zero Trust investment spend, support funding requests, and align hiring plans with approved budgets.
Identify risks related to hiring delays, vendor dependencies, or funding constraints and proactively surface options.
Ensure Zero Trust initiatives are audit-aware and defensible, particularly in areas such as privileged access controls, certificate governance, and cloud access consistency.
Act as a liaison between delivery teams and GRC when Zero Trust topics are reviewed.