ISSO Program Manager

What you'll do

• Serve as an ISSO supporting the implementation and ongoing maintenance of information security controls for assigned OEDA systems.
• Provide security engineering support for information systems and services operating within CMS-authorized enterprise platforms, including cloud-based and managed service environments.
• Provide essential support to the Authorizing Official (AO) and Authorizing Official Designated Representative (AODR) in making risk-based authorization decisions.
• Conduct continuous monitoring activities for assigned systems, including security event logging, vulnerability scanning, and configuration management to ensure ongoing compliance with security requirements and ATO conditions.
• Serves as the principal advisor to the Program ISSO involving the security and privacy of an information system.
• Responsible for ensuring the implementation and maintenance of security and privacy controls in accordance with existing agency
• Department, and federal government policies, as applicable.
• Provides guidance, oversight, and expertise to the development of security documents and implementation of security and privacy controls

Required skills

• 7+ years cybersecurity experience with a focus on federal contracts
• Must have experience with Custom Software or Cloud infrastructure programs/projects
• Federal security officer experience required
• Experience working with or for government agencies, with solid understanding of government contracting, compliance, and importance of audit trails 
• Experience with leading and growing agile development teams and the challenges of managing a project at scale, whether you inherited that team or built it from scratch
• Ability to demonstrate experience leading large-scale projects with significant complexity, including managing milestones, dependencies, and integrations with significant risk, uncertainty or scale
• Experience using agile frameworks like scrum, kanban, or SAFe and familiarity with agile development practices such as continuous integration and continuous delivery
• You are an empathetic communicator and relationship builder – you take a service-oriented approach to supporting the program team and our clients
• Adaptable problem solving and ability to deal with multi-dimensional challenges involving many organizations, processes, cultures, and technologies
• You are highly organized and care deeply about building and growing a sustainable, culture-conscious business
• A strategic approach to delivery planning and contract management over the medium-term and long-term
• An iterative approach to execution that emphasizes rapid team progress
• Ability to maintain broader situational awareness beyond the immediate team
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Desired Skills

• Previous experience in managing Paid Family Leave Benefits Programs, either in-house or as a vendor
• Experience working closely with or inside state government (or local government of major cities like NYC, LA, Chicago, or Houston) 
• Proven track record of building and leading high-performing, agile technology teams of 50+ staff
• Experience launching new production systems with high public visibility
• Experience with long term, complex, and ambiguous IT modernization efforts. 
• Experience with using common project management tools like Jira and Confluence
• Track record of introducing and expanding agile transformation and pursuing best practices in project management with clients and stakeholders
• Experience managing projects that provide production operations and support alongside ongoing product/feature development