Project Manager (Cybersecurity)

Lorien is hiring a Project Manager (Cybersecurity) for a long-term contract in Charlotte, NC (hybrid), with an hourly rate of USD 70–75. This role supports program/project agile oversight, gating readiness, and execution reporting, helping teams coordinate delivery against schedule, scope, cost, and compliance goals.

Responsibilities

• Partner with delivery teams across each project to oversee Features, Epics, Stories, and Backlog, ensuring alignment with the Primavera P6 schedule and deliverables.
• Establish monthly PI Planning to support the monthly increment and commitment of work (Sprint-based planning is acceptable if it serves that intent).
• Establish a weekly Team of Teams forum to review current commitment status, sprint progress, and impediment status (with a recurring Core Team meeting each week, where the latter portion may be used for this oversight).
• Assure ongoing backlog grooming is maintained by the teams.
• Identify, manage, and drive impediments to closure through reviews at Core Team and Team of Teams.
• Track and trace each mapped CS200 standard to individual projects to support compliance reporting.
• Develop measures for percentage of controls improvements and/or compliance achieved based on project delivery.
• Consider overlaps of controls across projects to support compliance achievement insights.
• Research, identify, and prepare all required gating artifacts for each project’s next Gate.
• Work with project SMEs to develop estimates needed for each Gate.
• Use the project controls template and/or support provided via PGO-D for estimating and reporting.
• Develop the Scope Baseline for each project and maintain scope management and tracking templates (including installs of assets, licenses, or process project scope completions).
• Support monthly forecasting and reporting, including:
  • Scope management: tools for each project with monthly updates.
  • Schedule forecast: JIRA progress updates tied to P6, plus P6 milestone achievement and forecasting.
  • Cost forecast: labor forecasting support using SME inputs, and invoicing forecasting updates (review outstanding or planned invoicing).
  • Risk register updates using Active Risk Manager/ARM (SWORD, now Riskonnect).
  • Variance explanations and tracking.
  • Monthly reporting at both the individual project and program level (Financial KPIs, Milestones, Issues, Risks, Dependencies, Impediments).
  • Weekly status reporting (4-blocker).
• Support the Change Manager with planned activities, stakeholder analysis and updates, and communications for project and program change management needs, including building communication collateral.

Requirements

• PMP
• PMI-ACP
• JIRA
• Familiarity with Agile (including Hybrid Agile), and SDLC
• Ability to quickly assess schedule impacts associated with Agile delivery
• Proficient to Expert in software and/or communications projects
• Backlog management experience, particularly within JIRA and the technical delivery roadmap
• Agile project management experience, including familiarity with ceremonies and managing scope and requirements traceability across multiple projects and workstreams; participate and facilitate large-room engagements as needed
• Proficient to Expert in Risk Management
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and other project management tools: Excel, Word, Project, JIRA, Teams, PowerPoint, Visio
• Familiarity with Primavera P6
• Risk management tooling familiarity: Active Risk Manager/ARM (SWORD, now Riskonnect)
• Excel expert
• File and document management with strong attention to detail
• Forecasting, cost, and timing managed in Agile monthly sprints
• Bachelor’s degree

Technologies

• Agile, SDLC, Jira, Excel, Word, Project, Teams, PowerPoint, Visio
• Primavera P6
• Active Risk Manager/ARM (SWORD, now dba Riskonnect)

Key Skills

• Forecast, cost, timing; managed in Agile monthly sprints
• Experience in JIRA
• Excel expertise
• File and document management, attention to detail

Job type: Contract • Location: Charlotte, NC (hybrid) • Compensation: USD 70–75 per hour