Senior Program Manager

About This Role

External Job Description About KATIM KATIM is a leader in the development of innovative secure communication products and solutions for governments and businesses. As part of the Space & Cyber Technologies cluster at EDGE, one of the world’s leading advanced technology groups, KATIM delivers trust in a world where cyber risks are a constant threat, and fulfils the increasing demand for advanced cyber capabilities by delivering robust, secure, end-to-end solutions centered on four core business units: Networks, Ultra Secure Mobile Devices, Applications, and Satellite Communications. Our talented team of cross functional experts continually takes-on new challenges. We work with the energy of a start-up yet the discipline of a large business to make solutions and products work for our customers at scale

Key Responsibilities A Program Manager will be working closely with key stakeholders across the organization to deliver on-time and high quality high assurance network products.

The ideal candidate will have preferably demonstrated prior experience in project managing hardware and/or software development projects. He or she should have a good understanding of security technology, such as VPN and cryptography and understand high security requirements, such as common criteria and FIPS and related development methodologies.

The Program Manager will help set delivery strategy, execute on schedule and manage program deliverables with internal teams through appropriate communication, methodical documentation and escalation.

This role will be reporting into the Program Director with a dotted line to the CEO office based on deliverables

Education And Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, electrical engineering, related field or equivalent experience
• Prince 2 or PMP Certification
• Minimum 10+ years of experience managing projects across the full software development life cycle (SDLC), hardware development cycle
• previous software engineering project or program management experience in phone software or security industry.

Key Skills

• Manage full software and hardware development life cycle from design, development, testing, release planning to release review and go-to-market.
• Must have a strong technical background with the ability to appropriately prioritize and drive issues to closure/resolution keeping the big picture in sight at all times
• Understand high assurance security requirement (Common Criteria, FIPS, etc) and related dev methodologies
• Have experience with Network product development (routers or switches or firewalls)
• Have experience with security technology, e.g. VPN and cryptography

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