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.

Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, Business , or a related field.

- 10+ years of experience managing complex federal IT and/or cybersecurity programs.
- 5+ years of experience involving enterprise endpoint management, cybersecurity/security modernization, and/or Microsoft technology environments.
- Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary technical teams in large, distributed enterprise environments .
- Strong experience with:
- Integrated scheduling and milestone management
- Program performance metrics/KPIs
- Risk, issue, dependency, and corrective-action management
- Executive and Government reporting
- Deliverable and acceptance management
- Transition and operational handoff planning

- Experience managing fixed-price federal work with defined deliverables, acceptance criteria, and performance/service-level thresholds.
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate effectively with federal Government customers, technical teams, security stakeholders, and organizational customers.

Preferred Qualifications
- PMP or comparable project/program management certification.
- Experience supporting NIH, HHS, or another civilian federal health/science agency .
- Experience managing Microsoft endpoint-management or cybersecurity modernization programs involving technologies such as Microsoft Intune, MECM, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Defender Antivirus, Azure/Entra, Azure Arc, or JAMF .
- Familiarity with HHS security and privacy requirements, Section 508, personnel security, audit support, authorization/ATO activities, and NIST-based security environments .
- Experience