Job Description:

Job Title Senior Program/Project Manager – Network Security & Cyber Resilience

Corporate Title Director

Location Cary, NC

Who we are:

In short – an essential part of Deutsche Bank’s technology solution, developing applications for key business areas.

Our Technologists drive Cloud, Cyber and business technology strategy while transforming it within a robust, hands-on engineering culture. Learning is a key element of our people strategy, and we have a variety of options for you to develop professionally. Our approach to the future of work champions flexibility and is rooted in the understanding that there have been dramatic shifts in the ways we work.

Having first established a presence in the Americas in the 19th century, Deutsche Bank opened its US technology center in Cary, North Carolina in 2009. Learn more about us here.

Overview

The Senior Program / Project Manager is responsible for driving complex, security focused network programs that enhance Deutsche Bank’s cyber security posture, close audit and regulatory findings, and ensure tight integration with the Chief Security Office (CSO). The role operates within the network project portfolio and ensures full compliance with Deutsche Bank’s Change Governance Framework (CGF), consistent delivery quality, and close alignment with security and risk functions.

This includes end to end governance, delivery assurance, risk management, and stakeholder management across GNS, CSO, Engineering, Operations, Architecture, and external partners.

What We Offer You

• A diverse and inclusive environment that embraces change, innovation, and collaboration
• A hybrid working model, allowing for in-office / work from home flexibility, generous vacation, personal and volunteer days
• Employee Resource Groups support an inclusive workplace for everyone and promote community engagement
• Competitive compensation packages including health and wellbeing benefits, retirement savings plans, parental leave, and family building benefits
• Educational resources, matching gifts and volunteer programs

What You’ll Do

• Lead delivery of cyber‑security‑driven network transformation programs, including Zero Trust, network segmentation, NAC, enhanced access control, and other CSO‑mandated initiatives across on‑prem, hybrid, and cloud environments
• Provide portfolio‑wide project and program assurance in adherence to Deutsche Bank’s Change Governance Framework (CGF), ensuring consistent governance, controls, and delivery discipline
• Maintain comprehensive oversight of risks, issues, dependencies, and remediation progress across the network security portfolio
• Partner closely with CSO and security teams to ensure alignment with Deutsche Bank security policies, control frameworks, technology risk requirements, and regulatory obligations (e.g., European Central Bank (ECB) cyber resilience, European Banking Authority (EBA) ICT, DORA)
• Translate threat‑driven architecture principles and modern attacker techniques (e.g., lateral movement, privilege escalation) into actionable network security requirements, challenging technical designs for security sufficiency
• Oversee cyber‑security risk, audit, and resilience activities, including vulnerability management, Identity and Access Management NAC and firewall governance, penetration testing, red/blue‑team exercises, and closure of audit and regulatory findings

How You’ll Lead

• Drive secure‑by‑design outcomes by aligning network engineering, deployment, and operations teams, influencing design decisions to embed security controls from inception
• Act as a senior point of accountability for network cyber‑security governance, providing clear direction, escalation, and decision‑making across complex, multi‑stakeholder programs
• Lead engagement with internal and external stakeholders (e.g., CSO, audit, regulators), ensuring clear communication of risk posture, remediation progress, and compliance status

Skills You’ll Need

• Strong technical expertise across network security technologies (e.g., Cisco, Check Point, F5, firewalls, proxies, routing, segmentation, NAC) and modern cyber‑security methodologies
• Deep understanding of technology risk and control frameworks, with the ability to apply them pragmatically to large‑scale network and infrastructure programs
• Proven experience leading large, multi‑year, global infrastructure and security‑driven transformation programs, including audit remediation initiatives
• Demonstrated leadership managing global, multicultural network and IT infrastructure teams, delivering complex outcomes in regulated environments.
• Excellent senior‑level communication skills, supported by a relevant technical degree and professional certifications (PMP/PRINCE2 preferred; CISSP/CISM/CISA highly desirable), with strong awareness of regulatory drivers (e.g., ECB, EBA, SOX, GLBA, Dodd‑Frank)

Skills That Will Help You Excel

• Highly proactive, analytical, and able to manage ambiguity
• Strong leadership presence and ability to work under regulatory pressure
• Collaborative, internationally minded, and able to build strong cross functional relationships
• Outcome driven, structured, and committed to continuous improvement

Expectations

It is the Bank’s expectation that employees hired into this role will work in the Cary, NC office in accordance with the Bank’s hybrid working model.

Deutsche Bank provides reasonable accommodations to candidates and employees with a substantiated need based on disability and/or religion.

The salary range for this position in Cary, NC is $170,000 to $265,000. Actual salaries may be based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s skill set, experience, education, work location and other qualifications. Posted salary ranges do not include incentive compensation or any other type of remuneration.

Deutsche Bank Benefits

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