Position Overview

This role delivers ZTNA projects under Enterprise PMO governance, ensuring alignment with programme objectives, timelines, budgets, and security standards. It coordinates end-to-end ZTNA implementation and migration from LAN/VPN access, working closely with technical teams, vendors, and business stakeholders. The role manages project plans, risks, compliance, documentation, and reporting to ensure smooth delivery, operational readiness, and minimal business disruption. It also supports change adoption, stakeholder communication, and incident response while contributing to strengthened security controls and policy adherence.

This is a 2 year Direct Contract role.

Role & Responsibilities

Lead and provide programme-level governance, oversight, and assurance for the organisation's Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) initiative.
Own the end-to-end ZTNA lifecycle, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy, cybersecurity objectives, business outcomes, funding models, and regulatory obligations.
Establish and maintain governance structures, including delivery cadence, decision forums, escalation paths and executive reporting.
Oversee and coordinate multiple ZTNA projects and workstreams, managing interdependencies across technology, operations, identity, network, endpoint and business change domains.
Direct and govern the large-scale migration from LAN- and VPN-based access to ZTNA, ensuring delivery is phased, risk-managed and minimally disruptive to business operations.
Define and track KPIs and success metrics, including delivery performance, risk posture, adoption readiness and security outcomes.
Provide senior risk and issue management, identifying systemic, cross-project, or enterprise-level risks and defining mitigation strategies in partnership with technical and business leaders.
Work with architecture, security and engineering leads to ensure delivery adheres to approved ZTNA architecture, standards and policies.
Lead stakeholder engagement at executive and senior management levels, providing clear, concise programme reporting and decision support.
Sponsor and govern organisation-wide change management and adoption strategy, including communication, training direction, and readiness planning.
Provide leadership during high-severity or escalated security incidents related to access, identity or trust boundaries, ensuring appropriate coordination and executive visibility.
Ensure programme artefacts and controls are consistently applied across the programme, including programme plans, budget, delivery dashboards, benefits tracking, risk registers and audit evidence.
Mentor and guide project managers and PMO staff to uplift delivery maturity, consistency, and capability.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or a related discipline.
8–10 years of professional experience, with substantial experience in programme/project management, or large‑scale technology transformation initiatives.
Proven track record of leading complex, multi‑workstream programmes involving security, infrastructure, identity, network or enterprise platforms.
Demonstrated experience governing enterprise cybersecurity or Zero Trust–related programmes in large or regulated environments.
Strong understanding of governance frameworks, delivery controls, assurance processes and executive reporting.
Experience establishing and operating governance structures, including steering committees, stage gates, RAID management and benefits tracking.
Ability to manage cross‑project dependencies, competing priorities, funding constraints and enterprise risks.

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Senior Lead Engineer - Zero Trust Architecture (Cyber Security Office)