IBM
Security Delivery Lead - Cyber Project Manager
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Cyber Project Manager – Security Services (Public & Private Sector)
Introduction
At IBM CIC, we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.
A career in IBM CIC means you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change for our clients, using some of the latest technology platforms.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You’ll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself, focusing on skills in demand in an ever-changing market. You’ll be working with diverse teams, coming up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, who may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
What We Offer
Training, Certification & Development:
- Many training opportunities including classroom and e-learning
- Mentoring and coaching programs
- Support to gain industry-recognized certifications
Career & Promotion:
- Regular and frequent promotion opportunities
- Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
Diversity & Inclusion:
- A culture where Diversity & Inclusion is essential
- Policies and processes to support it, including Employee Champion teams and support networks
Innovation & Recognition:
- Peer-to-peer appreciation programs
- Manager-to-employee recognition programs
Work-Life Balance & Wellbeing:
- Flexible working approaches
- Sabbatical programs
- Paid paternity, maternity leave, and an innovative maternity returners scheme
- Private medical, dental & optical cover
- Employee Assistance Program, life assurance, and a group personal pension plan (IBM contributes an additional 5% of base salary monthly)
Traditional & Additional Benefits:
- 25 days holiday (excluding public holidays)
- Online shopping discounts
- 5% pension contribution from IBM
Your Role & Responsibilities
As a Cyber Project Manager within our Security Services practice, you will lead the end-to-end delivery of complex cyber programmes across public and private sector environments.
You will manage scope, schedule, cost, risk, and stakeholder expectations while coordinating multidisciplinary teams to deliver secure-by-design solutions and measurable business outcomes. Operating across cyber transformation, governance uplift, infrastructure security, identity programmes, and security operations projects, you will act as the central point of control—bridging technical delivery with business priorities.
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This is a hands-on delivery role requiring strong structure, excellent communication, and the ability to navigate fast-paced, regulated environments.
Key Responsibilities
Project Delivery & Governance
- Lead the full lifecycle delivery of cyber security projects, ensuring scope, quality, schedule, and cost targets are achieved.
- Establish and run project governance, including:
- RAID (Risks, Actions, Issues, Decisions) management
- Dependency tracking
- Change control
- Financial reporting
- Stage-gate reviews
Team Coordination & Stakeholder Engagement
- Coordinate cross-functional teams, including security consultants, engineers, architects, PMO, suppliers, and client stakeholders.
- Drive secure-by-design delivery, ensuring security requirements are captured, validated, and embedded into programme and platform decisions.
- Act as the central point of control—aligning technical teams with business priorities.
Risk, Documentation & Compliance
- Manage risks, issues, and decisions, maintaining clear logs, proactive mitigation, and transparent escalation pathways.
- Prepare and deliver project documentation, including:
- Project initiation documentation
- Plans and status reporting
- Commercial updates and post-implementation reviews
- Engage senior stakeholders, communicating delivery progress, risk posture, and operational readiness.
Vendor & Financial Management
- Manage third-party suppliers, subcontractors, and MSSPs, ensuring commercial performance and contractual alignment.
- Support financial forecasting and budget management, ensuring accurate cost tracking, billing, and change management.
Compliance & Continuous Improvement
- Ensure compliance with cyber and regulatory standards, such as:
- ISO 27001
- NIST CSF
- NIS/NIS2
- CAF
- CE+
- Contribute to continuous improvement, sharing lessons learned and best practices across FutureNow delivery teams.
Required Qualifications & Experience
Education
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent)
Technical & Professional Expertise
Core Experience: ✅ Proven experience delivering complex cyber or technology projects in fast-paced, matrixed environments. ✅ Strong understanding of cyber security domains, such as:
- IAM (Identity & Access Management)
- Infrastructure security
- Cloud security
- SOC/SIEM (Security Information & Event Management)
- GRC (Governance, Risk, Compliance) ✅ Demonstrated experience managing:
- RAID (Risks, Actions, Issues, Decisions)
- Change control
- Planning, reporting, dependencies, and budgets ✅ Hands-on project leadership—not just oversight—able to drive momentum, unblock delivery, and ensure outcomes land. ✅ Ability to translate technical detail into business language for engineering teams and executive stakeholders. ✅ Experience in regulated industries (public sector, defence, finance, utilities, or CNI – Critical National Infrastructure) is highly beneficial. ✅ Excellent stakeholder management, including steering group facilitation and senior leadership engagement. ✅ Familiarity with secure-by-design concepts, governance uplift, controls alignment, incident readiness. ✅ Experience managing vendors or MSSPs (Managed Security Service Providers), including contract adherence, work-package delivery, and performance tracking. ✅ Strong documentation and reporting capability, producing clear and structured plans, summaries, and business cases.
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Security Clearance Requirement:
- This role requires eligibility for UK Government security clearance.
- Candidates who already hold clearance (SC or DV) are encouraged to apply, but we will fully consider those able to obtain it.
Preferred Experience
✔ Project delivery certifications, such as:
- PRINCE2
- APM PMQ/PPQ
- MSP
- Scrum Master ✔ Experience delivering cyber programmes in public-sector, defence, or CNI environments. ✔ Understanding of security frameworks such as:
- NCSC CAF (Cyber Assessment Framework)
- NIST CSF (Cybersecurity Framework) ✔ Experience working across FutureNow domains (IAM, SIOC, Infrastructure, OT, GRC, DevSecOps). ✔ Ability to manage multi-vendor transformation programmes, including contract negotiation. ✔ Experience with cloud transformation projects, especially those requiring identity, network, and security tooling alignment. ✔ Exposure to SOC uplifts, SIEM implementations, or security operations investments. ✔ Strong financial management skills, including forecasting, budget tracking, burn-down charts, and utilization reporting. ✔ Experience shaping business cases, TOMs (Theory of Operations), and capability-building roadmaps.
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