Senior Tech Program Manager - Security

The Tech Program Management team at Datavant drives execution across our most complex, high-priority technical initiatives. We contribute to the Product Operations goal of shipping software better and faster. Our work spans cross-functional domains, partnering with Product, Engineering, Security, and other stakeholders to bring structure, visibility, and forward motion to work that cuts across systems, teams, and business units.

About the role

As a Senior Technical Program Manager - Security, you will own the delivery operating model for a set of high-impact programs aligned with our Security investments. You’ll partner closely with Security Engineering, Infrastructure, and Compliance teams to drive delivery of critical initiatives. These include application-layer protections, vulnerability management, asset inventory hygiene, identity and access management, and audit readiness. Depending on priorities, you may lean into one security domain or span several. In all cases, you bring structure, velocity, and clarity to complex, cross-functional work.

This role requires deep experience managing complexity and ambiguity. You will be expected to define and evolve how the work flows: designing the planning cadences, coordination rhythms, and decision-making forums that enable progress and autonomy. You will interface directly with executive sponsors and ensure that your programs remain visible, aligned, and delivering impact. This is not a compliance coordination role or a check-the-box PMO role. We’re looking for someone who builds delivery systems that increase velocity and avoids process for process's own sake.

In this role you will:

• Drive delivery of high-impact security initiatives across both application-layer programs (such as vulnerability management, container scanning, and web application protection) and broader efforts such as identity and access management, audit readiness, and risk mitigation. 
• Translate strategic goals into program delivery plans that integrate technical dependencies, staffing constraints, and tradeoff decisions. Ensure outcomes are achievable, aligned, and owned.
• Design and evolve the program’s operating rhythm by adjusting planning cycles, checkpoints, and forums as the initiative scales or priorities shift.
• Set the delivery tempo across teams and functions. You clarify priorities, resolve misalignment early, and ensure execution stays anchored to outcomes even as context and stakeholder input evolve.
• Drive decision-making sessions with engineering, product, and functional leads. Align teams on the path forward, surface tradeoffs, and ensure decisions are clearly communicated and documented.
• Proactively identify delivery risks, architectural dependencies or decision gaps, and drive resolution across cross-functional stakeholders with minimal handholding.
• Address friction points across tooling, process, or communication, and implement durable solutions that scale beyond your involvement.
• Ensure program artifacts reinforce team autonomy and provide senior stakeholders with visibility into decisions, tradeoffs, and outcomes as the program evolves.
• Communicate crisply with Product, Engineering, cross-functional partners and executive stakeholders. You tailor your message to the audience and ensure visibility into status, blockers, and outcomes.
• Interface directly with executive sponsors to align on priorities, surface risks, and provide clear visibility into progress and outcomes.
• Anticipate and align program timelines with org-wide planning rhythms (e.g., roadmap reviews, security audits, launch cycles), ensuring visibility and coherence across related workstreams.
• Contribute to shaping how Technical Program Management operates at Datavant. You’ll share learnings, iterate on best practices, and help raise the bar for delivery across the TPM function.

About You

• You have 8+ years of experience leading high-stakes technical programs, including direct ownership of complex, cross-functional delivery in high-growth or rapidly evolving environments. You’re deeply familiar with how engineering teams make decisions and have a proven ability to lead in technically and organizationally complex settings.
• You don’t just move work forward: you lead from ambiguity to clarity. You build momentum early and maintain it through delivery, ensuring progress remains grounded in impact, not activity.
• You’ve led delivery in regulated or high-security environments and worked closely with security, infrastructure, and compliance teams. You translate goals tied to frameworks like HIPAA, HITRUST, SOX, or FedRAMP into structured, cross-functional execution without slowing teams down.
• You connect the “why” behind security programs to their technical and business impact. Whether navigating vulnerability management, identity access, or audit readiness, you stay grounded in architecture, developer experience, and risk.
• You see how delivery systems, architecture, team dynamics, and business context intersect. You design and evolve delivery frameworks that scale with the work and adapt as priorities shift.
• You operate with foresight. You anticipate blockers across multiple layers — technical, organizational, interpersonal — and address them before they impact delivery. You bring clarity and resolution even in high-conflict or high-ambiguity situations.
• You maintain a systems-level view while staying grounded in delivery detail. You own the delivery narrative, making tradeoffs legible, risks visible, and outcomes credible, even when priorities shift or pressure mounts.
• You are technically fluent. You can get close to the code with engineers to understand architecture, systems behavior, and tradeoffs… and then distill that context for executive stakeholders to drive clear, informed decisions.
• You communicate with clarity, speed, and contextual awareness. Whether aligning functional leads or surfacing risks to execs, you bring the right level of fidelity to every conversation.
• You use delivery tooling to create visibility and reduce friction. You adapt workflows based on team needs, and don’t default to process for process’s sake.
• You lead with empathy and high standards. You cultivate strong partnerships and help teams stay grounded, even when the stakes are high or the path forward is unclear.
• Bonus: Certifications like CISSP or CISM can help signal domain fluency, but they’re not a requirement. What matters most is how you operate, not which letters follow your name.