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In this position, you will lead IT projects for establishing an OCSP service. Your key tasks include planning, coordinating interdisciplinary teams, budget control, and managing stakeholder requirements alongside technical audit criteria.
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Your role in the team
- Overall responsibility for planning, managing, and implementing the OCSP service while meeting schedule, cost, quality, and resource targets.
- Management of project resources, milestones, quality gates, backlogs, and subprojects.
- Responsibility for budget planning, cost control, and risk management, including defining and tracking measures.
- Active stakeholder and committee management, including the organization and chairing of steering committees.
- Deriving requirements, developing architectural concepts (in collaboration with business departments), and providing evidence for audits.
- Contract and claim management, including change requests and service acceptance, in close coordination with Legal, customers, and external partners.
- Overall technical coordination, including defining the approach and ensuring solution quality.
- Transparent project documentation and regular reporting to management and relevant stakeholders.
- Preparing and presenting complex issues in a decision-ready format tailored to management, and demonstrating confidence in committee meetings, customer meetings, and audits.
- Implementation and monitoring of customer SLAs: defining, implementing, and continuously monitoring contractually agreed service levels (e.g., availability and response times of the OCSP service), including reporting to customers and initiating corrective measures in the event of deviations.
- Leading interdisciplinary project teams without direct line authority (lateral leadership), combined with strong interpersonal skills and a strong team spirit.
Our expectations of you
Education
- Completed degree in computer science, business informatics, electrical engineering, or a comparable field, or equivalent practical experience.
Qualifications
- Knowledge of relevant regulations and standards (eIDAS, ISO, ETSI, CA/Browser Forum) and the ability to translate them into technical requirements and architecture.
- In-depth knowledge of PKI, X.509 certificates, OCSP, and HSMs.
- Confident use of traditional, hybrid, and agile project management methodologies.
- Knowledge of relevant legal and regulatory requirements for qualified trust service providers, public certification authorities, or service providers in the telematics infrastructure.
- Good command of English (B2).
- In-depth knowledge of PKI: X.509 certificates, certificate lifecycle, revocation mechanisms (OCSP, CRL), and the relevant RFCs (e.g., RFC 6960, RFC 5280).
- Sound knowledge of relevant regulations and standards: eIDAS, ETSI standards (e.g., EN 319 401, EN 319 411), CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements, Mozilla Root Store Policy where applicable, and BSI requirements.
- Knowledge of relevant standard software and hardware, such as key management, certificate lifecycle management, QSCD, OCSP, and HSMs.
- Confident and persuasive presence in committee meetings, client meetings, and audits.
- Ability to present complex topics convincingly to management and clients, and to quickly grasp complex interrelationships.
- Independent and structured approach to work: responsibility for the roadmap, backlog, prioritization, and budget, as well as the ability to make and stand by decisions independently.
- Assertiveness and negotiation skills: Ability to enforce requirements and priorities with management, development, operations, compliance, and security, even when objectives conflict.
- Excellent communication skills with internal stakeholders and customers: explaining complex technical and regulatory topics clearly, capturing customer requirements, and managing expectations professionally.
Experience
- Several years of experience as a Project Manager or Product Owner in the Trust Center environment, ideally building highly available services.
- Experience with project and risk management tools, as well as project controlling and reporting, including in agile and hybrid environments.
- Experience in the confident application of agile methods such as Scrum and Kanban to plan, prioritize, and manage product development.
- Experience in preparing for, supporting, and conducting external audits.
- Experience with highly available architectures: redundancy, geo-redundancy, load balancing, caching/CDN, failover, monitoring, and the definition and adherence to SLAs and SLOs.
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Westhouse Consulting GmbH, founded in 2002 in Munich, is an international sourcing and consulting service provider specializing in the placement of qualified professionals in IT, Engineering, SAP, and Life Sciences, collaborating with international clients.
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