Cybersecurity Project Manager (AVP/VP, CISO)

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Singapore, SGP
In-Office
Senior level
Financial Services
The Role
Leads end-to-end delivery of strategic cybersecurity initiatives across a banking environment. Responsibilities include project planning, budgeting, governance, risk and issue management, vendor oversight, stakeholder coordination, regulatory evidence, security solution delivery, testing, implementation, and operational transition. The role requires strong cybersecurity understanding, executive communication, financial control, and experience managing complex technology projects in regulated environments.
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WHO WE ARE:

As Singapore’s longest established bank, we have been dedicated to enabling individuals and businesses to achieve their aspirations since 1932. How? By taking the time to truly understand people. From there, we provide support, services, solutions, and career paths that meet their individual needs and desires.

 Today, we’re on a journey of transformation. Leveraging technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organisation. But for all that change, our strategic ambition is consistently clear and bold, which is to be Asia’s leading financial services partner for a sustainable future.

 We invite you to build the bank of the future. Innovate the way we deliver financial services. Work in friendly, supportive teams. Build lasting value in your community. Help people grow their assets, business, and investments. Take your learning as far as you can. Or simply enjoy a vibrant, future-ready career.

Your Opportunity Starts Here.

Why Join
Protecting our customers' assets and data is at the heart of everything we do at OCBC. As a Cyber Engineering - Risk professional, you'll play a critical role in safeguarding our systems and networks from cyber threats. You'll be part of a team that's shaping the future of cybersecurity in the financial industry.
How you succeed

We are seeking an experienced Cybersecurity Project Manager to lead the end-to-end delivery of strategic cybersecurity initiatives across the Bank.


The role translates approved cybersecurity objectives into executable plans and coordinates technology, security, risk, operations, procurement, vendors, and business stakeholders to deliver agreed outcomes with clear governance, financial control, and operational ownership.


What you do

  • Lead delivery of cybersecurity projects under the Cyber Defense Roadmap and other approved transformation programmes.
  • Develop and maintain project scope, delivery plans, milestones, budgets, resource requirements, dependencies, risks, issues, and decision logs.
  • Coordinate delivery across cybersecurity engineering, architecture, infrastructure, application, cloud, identity, data, risk, audit, procurement, and operations teams.
  • Manage project governance, working groups, steering committees, status reporting, executive updates, and escalation of material risks or decisions.
  • Track delivery outcomes, financials, vendor commitments, resource utilisation, and inter-project dependencies.
  • Drive timely resolution of project risks, issues, control gaps, and delivery blockers with clearly assigned owners and target dates.
  • Manage vendor delivery, statements of work, commercial milestones, acceptance criteria, and supporting evidence for payment and closure.
  • Ensure security solutions are delivered with documented architecture, testing, control evidence, operational ownership, support procedures, and Day 2 readiness.
  • Support regulatory, audit, and risk-management requirements by maintaining complete and traceable project artefacts and evidence.
  • Facilitate requirements, design, testing, implementation, transition, and project-closure activities.
  • Promote consistent project standards, delivery discipline, lessons learned, and transparent reporting across the cybersecurity portfolio.

Who you are

  • 8+ years of project or programme management experience, including delivery of complex technology or cybersecurity initiatives.
  • Proven experience managing scope, schedule, budget, resources, vendors, dependencies, risks, and executive stakeholders.
  • Experience delivering projects in banking, financial services, or another highly regulated environment.
  • Good understanding of cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud, identity, application, data, or security-platform delivery.
  • Strong governance, planning, problem-solving, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills.
  • Ability to communicate complex delivery issues clearly and drive decisions, ownership, and follow-through.
  • Experience with audit, risk, procurement, financial control, and operational transition requirements.
  • PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent project-management certification is strongly preferred.

Preferred Experience

  • Cybersecurity certifications or prior delivery experience across Zero Trust, cloud security, IAM, API security, AI security, or security automation are beneficial

Who we are
As Singapore's longest established bank, we have been dedicated to enabling individuals and businesses to achieve their aspirations since 1932. How? By taking the time to truly understand people. From there, we provide support, services, solutions, and career paths that meet their individual needs and desires.
Today, we're on a journey of transformation. Leveraging technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organisation.
But for all that change, our strategic ambition is consistently clear and bold, which is to be Asia's leading financial services partner for a sustainable future.
We invite you to build the bank of the future. Innovate the way we deliver financial services. Work in friendly, supportive teams. Build lasting value in your community. Help people grow their assets, business, and investments. Take your learning as far as you can. Or simply enjoy a vibrant, future-ready career. Your Opportunity Starts Here.

What we offer:


Competitive base salary. A suite of holistic, flexible benefits to suit every lifestyle. Community initiatives. Industry-leading learning and professional development opportunities. Your wellbeing, growth and aspirations are every bit as cared for as the needs of our customers.

Skills Required

  • 8+ years of project or programme management experience
  • Experience delivering complex technology or cybersecurity initiatives
  • Experience managing scope, schedule, budget, resources, vendors, dependencies, risks, and executive stakeholders
  • Experience delivering projects in banking, financial services, or another highly regulated environment
  • Understanding of cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud, identity, application, data, or security-platform delivery
  • Strong governance, planning, problem-solving, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills
  • Ability to communicate complex delivery issues clearly and drive decisions, ownership, and follow-through
  • Experience with audit, risk, procurement, financial control, and operational transition requirements
  • PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent project-management certification
  • Cybersecurity certifications or experience with Zero Trust, cloud security, IAM, API security, AI security, or security automation
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The Company
HQ: Singapore
Year Founded: 1932

What We Do

OCBC is the longest established Singapore bank, formed in 1932 from the merger of three local banks, the oldest of which was founded in 1912. It is now the second largest financial services group in Southeast Asia by assets and one of the world’s most highly-rated banks, with an Aa1 rating from Moody’s. Recognised for its financial strength and stability, OCBC is consistently ranked among the World’s Top 50 Safest Banks by Global Finance and has been named Best Managed Bank in Singapore by The Asian Banker. OCBC and its subsidiaries offer a broad array of commercial banking, specialist financial and wealth management services, ranging from consumer, corporate, investment, private and transaction banking to treasury, insurance, asset management and stockbroking services. OCBC’s key markets are Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Greater China. It has more than 570 branches and representative offices in 19 countries and regions. These include about 300 branches and offices in Indonesia under subsidiary Bank OCBC NISP, and over 90 branches and offices in Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR and Macau SAR under OCBC Wing Hang. OCBC’s private banking services are provided by its wholly-owned subsidiary Bank of Singapore, which operates on a unique open-architecture product platform to source for the best-in-class products to meet its clients’ goals. OCBC's insurance subsidiary, Great Eastern Holdings, is the oldest and most established life insurance group in Singapore and Malaysia. Its asset management subsidiary, Lion Global Investors, is one of the largest private sector asset management companies in Southeast Asia.

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