About Careertakes

👉 Important disclosure: Careertakes is a third-party recruiting platform supporting this hiring process. If selected, you will be employed directly by our client, IT.

Applicants for this role may also receive access to additional matched opportunities through the Careertakes platform.

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What You’ll Do

Confidential Client is seeking a Cybersecurity GRC Project Manager to lead governance, risk and compliance (GRC) initiatives and drive lifecycle service quality for security programs. This is a contract role based in Irving, TX (onsite).

Key responsibilities:

• Manage project resources to ensure alignment with governance priorities, security controls, and access-management objectives.
• Drive governance activities, policy implementation, and documentation of processes, controls, and procedures.
• Oversee identity and access management (IAM) related deliverables and ensure appropriate controls are in place.
• Direct teams to improve service quality through measurement, dashboards, and analytics.
• Lead knowledge-management efforts to capture lessons learned and enable continuous improvement.
• Manage lifecycle service processes and track adoption, usage and performance against objectives.
• Communicate program status, risks, and value to stakeholders and executive leadership.
• Maintain accurate records of service activities, decisions and deliverables.

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Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of management experience, including enterprise security governance and identity & access management experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; comfortable presenting to technical and non-technical audiences including director/executive levels (IT Director, VP, CIO).
• Proven experience with GRC frameworks and activities.
• Demonstrated ability to run multiple concurrent projects and to measure and report program performance.

Preferred

• Industry certifications such as CISM, CRISC, CISSP.
• Hands-on familiarity with Agile methodologies, Azure DevOps (ADO) or similar tooling.
• Experience applying AI/analytics to governance reporting is a plus.

Skills (keywords)

• GRC, Governance, Risk Management
• Project Management, Agile
• Identity & Access Management (IAM)
• Azure DevOps (ADO)
• Communication, Stakeholder Management

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Contract & Compensation

• Job type: Contract (on-site)
• Location: Irving, TX (onsite)
• Pay range: $50.00 - $60.00 per hour
  • Actual pay offered will depend on qualifications, experience, geographic location, and other job-related factors.

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Benefits (if eligible)

If eligible, benefits for this temporary role may include:

• Medical, dental & vision
• 401(k) retirement plan (pre-tax and Roth options)
• Voluntary life and AD&D insurance
• Short- and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Employee assistance program
• Paid time off / leave (as applicable)

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Workplace & Other Info

• Workplace type: Fully onsite in Irving, TX
• This listing is posted by Careertakes on behalf of a confidential client in the IT industry.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities during the application and hiring process — please notify the recruiter to request accommodations.

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Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency

Careertakes and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind. To support a fair and efficient hiring process, AI tools may be used to assist with application review or resume screening. These tools do not replace human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are made by people.

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