Senior Technical Project Manager

Year    Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Job Description


About Cond Nast: Cond Nast India is a global media company producing the highest quality content with a footprint of more than 1 billion consumers in 32 territories through print, digital, video, and social platforms. Cond Nast is renowned for provocative, influential, award-winning content-across brands, across platforms, and across continents. Cond Nast India is dedicated to producing high-quality, compelling content that connects with India\'s most influential audiences. A leader within the market, Cond Nast India produces the premium titles Vogue , GQ , Cond Nast Traveler , and Architectural Digest . Sr. Technical Project Manager, Technology | Cond Nast Cond Nast is looking for an experienced Sr. Technical Project Manager to deliver a series of initiatives for our security products linked to our company goals and global objectives. Working within the Cond Nast Global Technology team, the ideal candidate has a background in the implementation of a variety of security products, excellent project management skills and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced, target-driven environment. The Role You will help drive the technical planning and delivery of a number of work streams across our Cyber Security Function. You will have expertise in managing deliverables across teams (Security, Infrastructure, networks & AWS Cloud) in a fast-paced, agile environment. A successful candidate will come from a change delivery background and will have held similar positions delivering security projects across a number of security domains. You will also have knowledge of security control frameworks, an extensive understanding of IT & business operations processes and a strong awareness of both project management life cycles and project methodologies. You will work to actively promote adoption and use of such methodologies and ensure security requirements are understood, embedded and effectively managed throughout the project delivery life cycle. You will also have a strong experience of the end-to-end delivery of Cyber Security projects in a multi-workstream programme. Our programme is large and our projects complex, with many interdependencies across a number of stakeholder teams and functions. The Team You will be working alongside colleagues across the world, including stakeholders in our US and UK HQs and in our 10 other markets. We strongly emphasise cross-functional working through partnering directly with our functional pillars in Technology for Product, Engineering, Architecture, Design, UX and Delivery; as well as our business partners in Consumer Marketing, Commerce, Commercial and Licensing, Editorial and Data. Key Duties & Responsibilities Project manage end-to-end delivery, from inception to go-live. Provide structure and rigour to the delivery of projects including the definition and maintenance of plans, milestones and success criteria. Technical solution design and development Build, Test and Acceptance Infrastructure delivery Technology and business implementation & optimisation Benefit realisation (benchmarking / tracking) to project objectives Create and maintain the following documents on a weekly basis understanding all the key steps and requirements Detailed Project Plan RAID Log Change Log Dependency Log Communication plan Manage across multiple concurrent build phases supporting build delivery with optimised agile & scrum practices, sprint planning, estimation, velocity management, burn down / burn up planning, QA & data migration & product feature release. Actively challenge and refine scope and prioritisation based on experience and domain knowledge; additionally seeks peers reviews with external (non-project related) resources to validate estimates & delivery approach Lead prioritisation and planning across multiple workstreams to ensure we meet stakeholder requirements with clear success criteria and measurable results Lead regular cross-functional delivery forums such as daily scrums with teams globally (US, UK & India predominantly). Lead regular forums with third party technology providers. Work across cross-functional Cond Nast teams to ensure appropriate technical resources are allocated to deliver project plans on a short-, mid- and long-term basis. Identify and manage project dependencies at a cross-functional level including product, technology, design, editorial, commerce, commercial, consumer revenue as well as finance, legal and data privacy Own stakeholder communication across your project(s) to communicate schedules, priorities, dependencies and risk. Provide accurate and timely status reporting for multiple audiences, including executive leadership, program office, and project teams Collaborate with multiple third party technology providers and third party Engineering teams to define and manage scope, workflows, ensure appropriate allocation of resources and manage dependencies between multiple providers and internal Cond Nast teams. Assist with production of business cases, manage budget, resource and capitalisation tracking and work with the business and technology leadership to define, articulate and identify how to measure benefits. Essential Skills & Requirements Minimum 5 years experience of managing Cyber security/ Infrastructure projects 12+ years experience of full lifecycle Project management Attention to detail with precise and effective planning and documentation across risk and dependencies logs. Experience with the Implementation of Security Controls and frameworks such as CIS20 for both hardware and software e.g. Device Hardening, Host based firewalls, Web filtering. Auditing, coverage and compliance approaches, definition and delivery. Management of Product and Tools selection process with implementation, including RFIs/FRPs, outcome evaluations and negotiations / contract onboarding. Requirements gathering and definition. GAP analysis and testing. Transitioning of security solutions into operational service e.g. Service Transition. Strong working knowledge of Project management methodologies; specifically Waterfall, Agile & Hybrid approaches. Experience with Project Management and Agile Software Development toolsets: JIRA, Confluence, Google Smartsheets, Windows Suite (MPP, Excel), Google Docs and Airtable. Strong experience working within governance structures and stage gating processes. Strong verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated experience engaging and influencing leaders, across functions including an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams. You are highly collaborative and able to effectively communicate technical concepts to different audiences. You build trusted relationships and can demonstrate proven success in negotiating priorities and supporting informed decision-making across at all levels of the organisation. A self-starter and ability to manage multiple demands with the ability to prioritise. Experience working with geographically dispersed, culturally varied teams & customer bases. You are able to work under pressure to meet deadlines and have a successful track record of delivering complex global initiatives to schedule and budget. You are self-driven, comfortable with ambiguity and motivated to deliver results-oriented outcomes. You have excellent written and verbal English communication skills. Experience with IT best practice frameworks (ITIL, LEAN, AGILE) You love working with a global team and are flexible to adjust hours accordingly. About you - desirable skills and Experience Experience and/or interest in working with Media, digital advertising, Publishing, Fashion across multiple International Markets and timezones. Successful track record of project delivery working in a matrixed global corporate environment Any of the following certifications would be advantageous: Prince 2, PMP and Agile Certifications CISSP, CISM, Security+ Cond Nast is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, familial status, and other legally protected characteristics.

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    JD3225171
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  • Total Positions
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    Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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