Westhouse Job: Senior IT Project Managers

Project overview

Westhouse is one of the leading recruitment companies for the placement of highly qualified specialists from the entire IT lifecycle and engineering sector.

For our client, we are currently looking for a

Senior IT Project Manager

General Information

Reference: 180942

Responsibilities

Interested?

Interested? We look forward to receiving your comprehensive CV in electronic form.

Your Contact Person:

Justus von Lenthe

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• Overall responsibility for planning, controlling, and implementing the OCSP service in compliance with time, cost, quality, and resource goals,
• Management of project resources, milestones, quality gates, backlogs, and sub-projects,
• Responsibility for budget planning, cost controlling, and risk management, including derivation and tracking of measures,
• Active stakeholder and committee management, including organization and leadership of steering committees,
• Derivation of requirements, creation of architectural concepts (together with business departments), and provision of evidence for audits,
• Contract and claim management, including change requests and acceptance of services in close coordination with Legal, customers, and external partners,
• Overall technical coordination with definition of procedures and ensuring solution quality,
• Transparent project documentation and regular reporting to management and relevant stakeholders,
• Preparation and presentation of complex issues in a management-ready, decision-ready manner, as well as confident demeanor in committees, customer appointments, and audits,
• Implementation and monitoring of customer SLAs: Definition, implementation, and ongoing monitoring of contractually agreed service levels (e.g., availability and response times of the OCSP service), including reporting to customers and initiating countermeasures in case of deviations,
• Leadership of interdisciplinary project teams, also without disciplinary authority (lateral leadership), as well as strong social competence and team spirit.

Project details

Berlin

Start Date: 04.01.2027

Working Hours: Full-time

Your Qualifications

• Completed degree, preferably in a technical, economic, or information technology field, or a comparable qualification or relevant professional experience
• Several years of experience in managing and controlling complex IT projects or as a Product Owner, preferably in the environment of business-critical, security-critical, highly available IT services in the Trust Center environment
• Basic understanding of regulatory and security requirements and experience in translating functional or regulatory requirements into technical requirements and work packages
• Basic knowledge of PKI or digital certificates
• Confident use of at least one established project management method and experience with agile or hybrid approaches
• Experience in projects with increased regulatory, compliance, or information security requirements
• Good English skills (B2)
• Experience with project and risk management tools, as well as project controlling and reporting, also in agile and hybrid contexts
• Experience with agile methods such as Scrum and Kanban in planning, prioritizing, and controlling product development
• Experience in preparing, accompanying, and conducting external audits or comparable examinations in regulated or security-critical environments
• Knowledge in the area of PKI and certificate management, especially X.509 certificates,
• Certificate lifecycle and revocation mechanisms such as OCSP and CRL. In-depth knowledge of relevant RFCs, especially RFC 5280 and RFC 6960, will be positively evaluated
• Knowledge of relevant regulations and standards for electronic trust services and certification authorities, such as eIDAS, ETSI EN 319 401/411, CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements, Mozilla Root Store Policy, or BSI specifications
• Experience with highly available IT architectures and their operational requirements, such as redundancy and geo-redundancy, load balancing, caching/CDN, failover, monitoring, as well as SLAs and SLOs
• Knowledge of relevant technologies and components from the Trust Center or PKI environment, such as Key Management, Certificate Lifecycle Management, QSCD, OCSP, and HSM.
• Experience in the environment of Trust Centers, qualified trust services, public certification authorities, or the telematics infrastructure will be particularly positively evaluated
• Start: 2027-01
• Duration: 12 Monate
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Berlin, Deutschland, DE
• Languages: German