Technical Program Manager – Data Protection / Cybersecurity

Ekman Associates, Inc. is a Southern California based company focused on the following services: Management Consulting, Professional Staffing Solutions, Executive Recruiting and Managed Services.

Summary:     We are seeking a highly talented and motivated Program Manager (PM) with security solutions development experience. This role is responsible and accountable to navigate problem spaces and turn them into well-structured programs while being cross-functional relationship builders. This role requires that you have the ability to see and understand the big picture, find connections where none exist, quickly building rapport across multidisciplinary teams, identifying and executing on a common goal to support the Enterprise Data Protection program.

Key Experience: 

• Understanding of storage infrastructure  
• Previous history with policy enforcement and external compliance remediation 
• Experience delivering security programs or products from inception to delivery. 
• Experience in technology architecture design and solutioning. 

  Responsibilities: 

• Accountable for identifying and overcoming end-to-end, cross-functional problems in technical domains across client and/or server infrastructure. 
• Lead execution and delivery of solutions to resolve business problems via strategic thinking and on-the-ground leadership. 
• Drive and influence technical strategy, proactively identify problems, align on priorities, and set direction for a broadly cross-functional area. 
• Define and own what success looks like, metrics & measurement, rollout, and scalable and sustainable operational plan. 
• Build strong, trusting partnerships to readily mobilize people and influence across a broad range of partners, leaders, and organizations without authority. 
• Identify and improve inefficiencies in how we operate to move faster with higher quality outcomes. 
• Assist in rolling out security standards and risk assessment methodologies.  
• Coordinate and enforce compliance with organization level security standards. 
• Lead requirements elicitation for new security solutions, identify security improvements and optimizations across the system. 
• Identify exceptions and solution for new processes and policies to solve these exceptions. 
• Translate technical process and requirements to a non-technical audience 
• Take ambiguous and ill-defined problem statements and translate them into a deliverable and measurable goal. 
• Take ownership of metrics and driving those metrics to completion.

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering with 5+ years of experience in software engineering, systems engineering, hardware engineering, or technical product/program management focused on information security and risk management or equivalent experience 
• Project management experience centered around information security and associated technology implementations. 
• Understanding of storage infrastructure  
• Previous history with policy enforcement and external compliance remediation 
• Experience delivering security programs or products from inception to delivery. 
• Experience in technology architecture design and solutioning. 
• Experience with executing day-to-day activities required for the development and tracking of information security initiatives, including the communication and management of policies, controls, and practices. 
• Experience with communicating sensitive and impactful changes to a broad technical audience. 
• Experience distilling complex technical information and conveying to different types of audiences to enable quick decisioning. 
• Strategic thinker with analytical and technology focused problem-solving experience.  
• Experience with demonstrating negotiation and conflict management. 
• Demonstrated experience with operating autonomously across multiple teams to foster cross-functional working relationships. Includes working with and communicating with multiple partner teams and cross-functional partners. 
• Experience establishing work relationships across multi-disciplinary teams and multiple partners in different time zones. 
• Results-oriented, high energy, self-motivated. 

   Qualified Candidates Only: If you wish to learn more about this opportunity and additional qualifications/responsibilities, please submit your resume. To learn more about Ekman Associates, Inc. please visit our website at   www.ekmanassociates.com