Program Manager | McLean, VA

Aktra Inc.; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Aktra Inc. seeks a Program Manager to align business strategy with technology delivery through integrated planning, Agile execution, and cross-functional collaboration.

The role drives program governance, roadmap development, and executive reporting to support enterprise transformation. You will lead strategic transformation & program planning, facilitate requirements gathering into user stories, partner with Product Owners and Architects, support PI planning, manage dependencies, and create

Qualifications

• Translate business needs into user stories, features and acceptance criteria.
• Facilitate requirements workshops and document prioritized backlogs.
• Collaborate with product owners, SMEs, architects, and development teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional transformation initiatives spanning business and technology.
• Develop and maintain technology and transformation roadmaps aligned with strategy.
• Create executive dashboards and status reports for leadership visibility.

Skills

Agile planning

Roadmap development

Stakeholder workshops

Executive reporting

PMO governance

Integrated planning

Tools

Power Apps

Job description

We are seeking a Program Manager to align business strategy with technology delivery through integrated planning, Agile execution, and cross-functional collaboration. The role drives program governance, roadmap development, and executive reporting to support successful enterprise transformation.

• Strategic Transformation & Program Planning: Lead cross-functional transformation initiatives, coordinating strategic planning, execution, and delivery across business and technology teams.
• Business Requirements & Analysis: Facilitate stakeholder workshops and requirements-gathering sessions to elicit, analyze, document, and translate business needs into actionable user stories, features, acceptance criteria, and prioritized delivery backlogs.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product Owners, Business Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), Enterprise Architects, and Development teams to align business requirements with technical solutions and ensure successful implementation.
• Agile Planning & Delivery: Support Agile delivery processes, including Program Increment (PI) planning, roadmap development, backlog refinement, dependency management, release planning, and milestone tracking.
• Technology Roadmap Development: Develop and maintain technology and transformation roadmaps aligned with business strategy, portfolio priorities, enterprise architecture, and long-term transformation objectives.
• Executive Reporting & Communications: Develop executive-level dashboards, program status reports, presentations, and stakeholder communications to provide leadership with visibility into program health, delivery progress, risks, dependencies, milestones, and business outcomes.
• PMO Governance & Portfolio Oversight: Apply PMO best practices across program governance, resource planning, risk and issue management, performance tracking, and portfolio reporting to promote accountability and consistent execution with automation.
• Integrated Planning & Decision Support: Lead integrated program planning activities across business and technology workstreams, leveraging data-driven analysis, performance metrics, and reporting to support strategic decisions, prioritization, and resource allocation.
• Familiarity with development and Power Apps is a plus.