IT Program Manager

IT Program Manager

Our client is seeking an experienced IT Program Manager to lead a large-scale information security initiative. This role involves providing strategic oversight and coordination across multiple projects, ensuring alignment with organizational security objectives and operational priorities. The ideal candidate will bring senior-level program leadership skills and a proven ability to manage complex, cross-functional IT and security programs in a remote work environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Designs and implements program governance frameworks, decision-making processes, controls, and escalation paths across IT and stakeholder groups.
• Develops and maintains an integrated program roadmap, schedule, milestone plan, dependency register, and implementation approach.
• Oversees program budgets, tracks costs, monitors resource utilization, and supports financial forecasting and reporting.
• Identifies technical, operational, security, and organizational risks; analyzes project interdependencies; and develops mitigation or corrective action plans.
• Manages and coordinates resources, vendors, personnel, and priorities across multiple concurrent work streams.
• Facilitates collaboration among technical teams, business stakeholders, vendors, information security personnel, and executive sponsors.
• Tracks deliverables, decisions, issues, risks, and action items to maintain program momentum and transparency.
• Produces regular program reports, providing clear status updates, recommendations, and decision points to leadership.

Required Qualifications

• Proven senior-level experience leading complex, cross-functional IT or information security programs.
• Experience coordinating initiatives in areas such as IT Helpdesk, Data Center operations, Data Networking, or Information Security, including on-premises and cloud-based systems.
• Strong knowledge of current information security concepts, technologies, risk management practices, and security program delivery methods.
• Demonstrated expertise in program governance, executive reporting, vendor coordination, budgeting, schedule management, and risk/issue tracking.
• Familiarity with project management tools, collaboration platforms, dashboards, and documentation practices.
• Excellent leadership, facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to effectively engage technical teams and executive leadership.
• Work experience in higher education is preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with security frameworks, compliance standards, or enterprise-level IT environments.
• Prior remote work experience with the ability to manage distributed teams and stakeholders effectively.

About Delphi-US

Delphi-US is a national IT Services firm based in Newport, Rhode Island. Delphi attracts our nation's best and brightest Technical & Professional Talent and positions our nation's finest employers to further their competitive advantages. Delphi's core technical focus includes Data Sciences & Analytics, Modern AI/ML Model Monetization, Cloud Engineering, Cyber Security, ERP Rescue; serving domains from sensitive national energy sectors to critical financial services, biomed, life sciences & pharma, major government & municipal institutions, and much of the USA's Fortune 500 corporations. Delphi Associates are deployed on critical IT Projects where their consultative business acumen, comprehensive technical expertise, and committed service mission drives our client's success. Our proprietary skill-based and cultural matching process results in higher qualified project teams, custom curated for our client's specific technical & functional goals. We are supremely experienced, friendly, professional, and ready to advocate on your behalf. Delphi has an indelible understanding of employer expectations, a track record of project success and we deliver lasting results.