Program Manager, Principal

Your Role

This role supports Stellarus within the Ascendiun Family of Companies. The Risk Management & Controls Assurance team delivers actionable insights by quantifying IT and business risk to increase resilience while driving a security culture. This Program Manager, Principal role will report to the Senior Manager. In this role you will develop, provide oversight, and support a governance process to ensure compliance of the Technology Ownership & Accountability policy.

Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow – personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

Program Leadership

• Operate at a strategic business level to ensure initiatives are in line with Stellarus strategic goals
• Consult with all levels including senior management, make recommendations, and influence decision-making

Program Execution

• Coordinate with leadership and build business cases to support short-term and long-term goals
• Leverage cross-functional internal and external relationships to drive initiatives forward
• Plan and implement multiple and extremely complex projects/programs spanning across business areas
• Determine key business issues, develop effective action plans and implement to successful conclusion
• Work with Finance and IT leadership to define financial investment model for technologies based on levers such as risk reduction and cost savings

Governance & Compliance

• Partner with teams across IT to design and implement an IT technology ownership governance process
• Oversee and manage said governance process, including key performance indicators and objective and key risks
• Drive risk mitigation of IT controls to ensure application security
  

Process & Technology Risk Reduction

• Coordinate and build process/artificial intelligence agents to support application of critical controls in reducing technology risks and increasing business resiliency.
• Coordinate and build process/AI agents to support application of controls to reduce risk and increase technology resiliency
• Partner with Risk Management team to define security control baseline & ensure applications adhere to said baseline

Lean -Agile Enablement

• Promote Lean-Agile principles to enable business agility, focusing on alignment, transparency, respect for people, and relentless improvement

• Other duties as assigned

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

• Requires at least 10 years of prior relevant experience

• Experience in portfolio management, preferably within an Agile or SAFe environment, scrum master experience is a plus

• Experience partnering with all levels of management required

• Driven, energetic, team player with superior oral and written communication skills

• Organizational change management skills desired

• Requires deep understanding of IT control frameworks such as NIST, COBIT, ISO27001 to drive ownership and compliance in safeguarding assets and data

Desire one or more of the following: CRISC (Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control), CISM (Certified Information Security Manager), CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor), CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional)

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ABOUT THE TEAM
About Stellarus and the Ascendiun Family of Companies

Stellarus, launched in January 2025, is designed to scale innovative healthcare solutions that support customers in creating a health care experience deserving of their family, friends, and neighbors.

Stellarus is part of a family of organizations that is overseen by a nonprofit corporate entity named Ascendiun. The Ascendiun Family of Companies also includes Blue Shield of California and its subsidiary, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan and Altais, a clinical services company.

Stellarus’ vision is to empower its customers to create a healthcare experience that is worthy of their family, friends, and neighbors. Stellarus’ objective is to offer innovative, modern, scalable solutions that challenge the health care status quo. This very closely aligns with Blue Shield of California’s vision by using innovation to improve quality, affordability, and experience for members.

To achieve our mission, we foster an environment where all employees can thrive and contribute fully to address the needs of the various communities we serve. We are committed to creating and maintaining a supportive workplace that upholds our values and advances our goals.

Our Values:

At Stellarus, our core values of agility, trust, drive, courage and service shape our approach to developing innovative product offerings.

Our Workplace Model:

At Stellarus and the Ascendiun Family of Companies, we believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. As we continue to evolve our workplace model, our focus remains on creating spaces where our people can connect with purpose – whether working in the office or through a hybrid approach – by providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce.

Two Ways of Working:

• Hybrid (Default): Work from a business unit-approved office at least two (2) times per month (for roles below Director-level) or once per week (for Director-level roles and above). Exceptions:

o Member-facing and approved out-of-state roles remain remote.

o Employees living more than 50 miles from their assigned offices are expected to work with their managers on a plan for periodic office visits.

o For employees with medical conditions that may impact their ability to work in-office, we are committed to engaging in an interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to ensure their work environment is conducive to their success and well-being.

• On-Site: Work from a business unit-approved office an average of four (4) or more days a week.

Physical Requirements:

Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.