Project Manager

Description

Job Description:

Leidos Veteran Health is seeking a Project Manager to support Veterans Affairs Electronic Health Record Modernization. The Project Manager will oversee and manage one or more complex projects and/or task orders for clinical interfaces integration tasks. Direct team personnel, provide oversight and direction to ensure effective management of project costs and schedules, profitability, contract compliance, and serve as the principal customer interface for program related activities.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Plan, coordinate, and manage the actions taken by the team members to implement VA EHRM customer requirements.

• Responsible for planning, organizing, directing and tracking of interface integration activities for assigned projects.

• Accountable for effective and efficient project resource forecasting, utilization and resource management.

• Participate in Cerner/VA collective and collaborative integration meetings to brief and manage stakeholder expectation against approved requirements.

• Work closely with VA PMO, ATT Leads, various subcontracting partners, external consulting organizations, customer resources, and other 3rd party providers.

• Responsible for establishing and monitoring internal and external metrics to measure and tune performance of project related activities.

• Provide proactive management and direction of personnel performing complex tasks while planning, implementing, and maintaining a project organization structure and selecting and recruiting key team members.

Basic Qualifications:

• BA degree and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6 years of prior relevant experience.

• Responsible for one or more projects and/or task orders supporting the Veterans Administration.

• Direct project team personnel, provide oversight and direction to ensure effective management of project costs and schedules, contract compliance, and serve as the principal customer interface for program related activities.

• Plan, coordinate, and manage the actions taken by the team members to implement VA internal customer requirements.

• Work closely and effectively in a coordinative fashion with Leidos Program Manager, VA Project Managers, various subcontracting partners, external consulting organizations, customer resources, contractor and other 3rd party providers.

• Be responsible for establishing and monitoring internal and external metrics to measure and tune performance of project related activities.

• Provide proactive leadership and direction of personnel performing complex tasks while planning, implementing, and maintaining a project organization structure.

• Be a good corporate ambassador when engaged with suppliers, vendors, subcontractors, other prime contractors, other company departments, and in community activities.

• Candidate should also have:

  • Demonstrated experience in a business setting, requiring regular and extensive contact with both the client and management teams, and working under Firm Fixed Price contract vehicle.

  • Experience leading a virtual team dispersed within the continental United States.

  • Demonstrated experience in application development or integration efforts including consolidation of disparate systems with various technologies; experience in the engineering challenges of Systems Development, Systems Integration and infrastructure deployment; substantial comprehension of the business value and processes of large IT environments.

  • Strong understanding or experience of software development and integration processes, including CMMI/SEI methodologies. Experience working in a complex technical and multi-site environment is required.

  • Experience leading an agile development team preferred

  • Experience managing programs and projects for the Veterans Affairs

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience support healthcare information technology projects

• Experience supporting information technology projects for Veterans Affairs agency

• PMP Certificate or related experience

• Current/Active VA background investigation/VA Access is a plus

"External Referral Eligible"

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

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About Leidos

Leidos is a Fortune 500® technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, civil, and health markets. The company’s 47,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $14.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2022.   For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

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