Program Manager - Federal IT & Cybersecurity

Program Manager – Federal IT & Cybersecurity

Location: Bethesda/Rockville, MD / Hybrid-Telework Eligible
Employment: Full-Time
Status: Contingent Upon Proposal Award
About Essnova

Essnova Solutions, Inc. is seeking an experienced Program Manager to lead delivery of a large-scale federal Microsoft endpoint management and cybersecurity modernization program supporting the National Institutes of Health (NIH) .

This position is contingent upon Essnova receiving contract award .

The Program Manager will serve as the primary contractor management interface with the Government and lead execution across Microsoft endpoint-management and Defender security workstreams supporting an enterprise environment of approximately 55,000 endpoints and 15,000+ servers .
What You’ll Do
- Serve as Essnova’s primary program interface with Government stakeholders , including the COR and other NIH stakeholders.
- Lead overall contract execution, staffing, resource allocation, technical-team coordination, and delivery across endpoint-management and endpoint-security workstreams.
- Manage multidisciplinary teams supporting Microsoft Intune, MECM, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE), Microsoft Defender Antivirus (MDAV), Azure Arc, JAMF/macOS , and related enterprise capabilities.
- Maintain integrated program schedules and manage risks, issues, decisions, dependencies, exceptions, corrective actions, and milestones .
- Lead recurring program/status meetings and manage agendas, decisions, action items, executive reporting, and monthly performance reporting.
- Track performance against contractual KPIs, service levels, acceptance criteria, security requirements, and quality standards .
- Coordinate enterprise modernization and transition activities, including roadmap milestones, organizational dependencies, knowledge transfer, operational handoff, and transition to steady-state operations.
- Ensure deliverables are accurate, timely, evidence-based, and traceable to contractual requirements.
- Support quality assurance, audit readiness, security/privacy requirements, and Section 508-compliant reporting and deliverables.
- Maintain effective communication among Government stakeholders, technical leads, security teams, organizational customers, and Essnova leadership.