Job Description
Technical Project Manager, IAM Platforms
Job Details
- Location: 100% remote (open to any time zone; slight preference for CST or EST)
- Duration: 10/19/2026 - 02/26/2027 (Contract w/ possible extensions)
Job Description
- Function: Information Security / Identity & Access Management
- Level: Senior Project Manager / Senior Technical Project Manager
- Primary delivery owner for enterprise IAM projects, translating business requirements into technical roadmaps and coordinating across infrastructure, security, and application teams.
- Manage initiatives including platform migrations, policy implementations, capability deployments, and organizational IAM transformations.
Responsibilities
- Project planning and scope management
- Define project charters and detailed scope for IAM initiatives
- Break down complex IAM implementations into manageable workstreams and phases
- Develop schedules, resource plans, and cost estimates in partnership with technical leads
- Establish success criteria and KPIs aligned with business objectives
- Stakeholder coordination and communication
- Lead project governance boards and steering committee reviews
- Communicate status, risks, and decisions to technical and business audiences
- Coordinate between infrastructure, security, applications, and business teams
- Manage dependencies, escalations, and stakeholder concerns proactively
- Technical delivery oversight
- Provide technical project leadership on platform implementations (Okta, CyberArk, Saviynt, etc.)
- Track and manage technical workstreams including design, build, testing, and deployment
- Collaborate with architects and engineers to ensure solutions meet requirements and standards
- Manage quality assurance, security testing, and compliance validation
- Risk and change management
- Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks
- Develop and execute change management plans for organizational transitions
- Plan and manage cutover activities, rollbacks, and contingencies
- Support post-implementation review and lessons learned capture
- Operations enablement and training
- Coordinate training and documentation for operations and support teams
- Develop operational runbooks and procedures for new capabilities
- Support knowledge transfer and team readiness
- Metrics and continuous improvement
- Track and report project metrics: schedule variance, budget variance, scope adherence
- Monitor value realization against post-implementation targets
- Identify and implement process improvements in IAM delivery
Qualifications
- Strong working knowledge of IAM platforms and architectures (Okta, Active Directory, PAM, IGA)
- Deep understanding of identity governance, lifecycle management, and compliance controls
- Proven experience managing enterprise security or infrastructure projects
- Advanced project management skills: planning, scheduling, budgeting, risk management
- Excellent stakeholder communication and cross-functional leadership ability
- Ability to translate technical architecture into business and operational context
- Experience with Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery methodologies
- 10+ years in project management, program management, or technical delivery roles
- 5+ years managing IAM, security, or enterprise IT projects
- 3+ years hands-on experience with enterprise IAM platforms (Okta, Saviynt, or equivalent)
- Demonstrated success leading complex, multi-team enterprise initiatives through delivery
- Experience managing platform migrations, implementations, or significant configuration changes
- Bachelor degree in computer science, information systems, business, or related field
Preferred Qualifications
- PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent project management certification
- AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud platform experience
- Experience with agile ceremony facilitation and SAFe frameworks
- Knowledge of IAM governance standards (NIST, CIS, SOC 2)
- Experience with zero-trust architecture or modern identity frameworks
- Track record working with security and compliance stakeholders
Compensation
- Pay Rate: $70-75/hr W2 plus benefit and 401k options
Requisition ID: 37679848
Job Tags
Contract work, Remote work