Strategic Program Manager & Business Analyst, Enterprise IT

Ares Enterprise; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Ares Enterprise seeks a Program Manager / Business Analyst to lead FAA NISC projects in Washington, DC. You will bridge business needs and technical teams, managing requirements, schedules, and deliveries for NIMS/CMIS environments.

The role requires 7+ years of IT program experience, strong communication with stakeholders, and a solid grasp of SDLC, Agile, and Waterfall. Contingent staffing with focus on transitions and risk management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 7+ years in IT programs, enterprise apps, or related tech programs.
• Proven project/program management and business-analysis experience.
• Experience developing requirements, process flows, plans, schedules, and executive briefings.
• Experience collaborating with software developers, DB engineers, cloud engineers, and other technical personnel.
• Understanding of SDLC methodologies including Agile, iterative development, and/or Waterfall.
• Experience managing multiple technical priorities.
• Strong technical writing and documentation skills.
• Strong customer-facing communication and meeting facilitation.
• Ability to communicate technical issues to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day program and project management activities.
• Develop and maintain project schedules, milestones, WBS, action items, risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Facilitate requirements-gathering and requirements-validation sessions with FAA stakeholders.
• Translate business requirements into functional and technical requirements for developers.
• Analyze existing business processes and develop process maps, workflows, recommendations, and future-state concepts.
• Coordinate application enhancements, releases, production issues, and technical priorities.
• Manage Agile/iterative development activities, including backlog prioritization and status tracking.
• Prepare program reviews, monthly status reports, briefings, schedules, plans, analyses, and other contract deliverables.
• Track project risks and develop mitigation and contingency strategies.
• Coordinate user training, user guides, knowledge-transfer activities, and helpdesk support.
• Support QA/QC and verify deliverables meet contractual and technical requirements.
• Coordinate with application developers, database developers, FAA stakeholders, cybersecurity personnel, and external system owners.
• Support requirements discovery and solution planning for the future NISC V system.
• Lead management aspects of Transition-In and Transition-Out, including knowledge transfer, readiness, risks, documentation, and schedules.

Skills

Project management

Business analysis

Requirements gathering

SDLC knowledge

Agile/Waterfall

Stakeholder communication

Technical writing

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT

Equivalent experience

Tools

AWS

Oracle

SQL

APIs

Job description

Ares Enterprise seeks a Program Manager / Business Analyst to lead FAA NISC projects in Washington, DC. You will bridge business needs and technical teams, managing requirements, schedules, and deliveries for NIMS/CMIS environments.

The role requires 7+ years of IT program experience, strong communication with stakeholders, and a solid grasp of SDLC, Agile, and Waterfall. Contingent staffing with focus on transitions and risk management.