Senior IT Risk Project Manager

Modernization as a Service (MaaS) is a cross-functional practice that supports all business verticals within the company. We are seeking a Senior IT Risk Project Manager to join our project for a leading US financial institution.

• Ensure successful delivery of projects
• Achieve financial targets
• Manage stakeholders' expectations
• Drive presales business development activities
• People management activities
• Project manager activities:
• Project start
• Project Planning and Execution
• Team Management
• Self-management

Must have

• Core project management
• 7+ years of professional experience in software development projects and management
• 5+ years of experience in large scale Project/Program management
• Proven track record in complex projects with global, distributed teams
• People management experience for 20+ FTEs
• Good understanding of program financials and reporting
• Good understanding of project manager areas of responsibility:
• Project Planning
• Backlog prioritization, detailing and decomposition
• Understanding of SDLC and ability to build/optimize project processes
• Communication with the team and client
• Understanding of motivation factors
• Result-oriented
• Working with feedback: provide and receive
• Risk management
• Demonstrable experience running IT risk, security, or compliance-driven programmes
• not only feature delivery
• Ability to translate technical findings into business impact and risk-based prioritization for senior stakeholders

Nice to have

• Familiarity with security vulnerability management: CVE/CVSS, severity triage, SLA-based remediation cycles
• Exposure to penetration testing engagements
• scoping, vendor coordination, findings review, retest tracking
• Understanding of AI/GenAI risk: model and data governance, AI risk scans and assessments, prompt injection and data leakage exposure, third-party AI tooling review
• Awareness of emerging AI governance and regulation (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF) and how it lands on delivery teams
• Understanding of secure SDLC practices: SAST/DAST/SCA, dependency and supply chain risk, threat modelling

• Languages: English: C1 Advanced
• Seniority: Senior