Program Manager / Business Analyst | Contingent | Washington, DC

The Program Manager / Business Analyst will serve as the primary management and functional lead supporting the Federal Aviation Administration's NISC Information Management System (NIMS) and Contract Management Information System (CMIS). This position combines program/project management, business analysis, requirements management, stakeholder coordination, and operational support for enterprise applications supporting FAA contract, financial, task order, invoice, and payment-management processes.

The successful candidate will work directly with program stakeholders and technical team members to translate operational and business requirements into actionable technical requirements, plans, schedules, workflows, and deliverables. The position will coordinate the work of a small, highly technical development team responsible for maintaining the existing NIMS/CMIS environment while supporting planning and implementation of the future system supporting NISC V.

The role supports FAA requirements for project schedules, WBS development, business-process models, staffing and implementation plans, cost/budget tracking, PMLC/SDLC management, quality metrics, risk management, stakeholder coordination, deliverable management, transition planning, and future-system analysis.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day program and project management activities.
• Develop and maintain project schedules, milestones, WBSs, 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.