Consulting Project Technical Manager - Healthcare , Federal, EHR

Project Manager

The Project Manager will be responsible for the day-to-day management of healthcare interfaces through creation, localization, deployment and cutover activities. Candidate should have strong project management skills with a proven ability to provide guidance from a functional and technical perspective. The project manager should be able to independently drive work forward, coordinate with multiple stakeholders, and raise issues/risks as appropriate.

Oversee and manage the schedule, facilitate meetings, assist other teams, document deployment risks, and where applicable create change requests related to the creation and/or deployment of interfaces. This includes but is not limited to the project initiation, design, management/coordination of local connectivity within the pre-prod and production domains (where applicable), interface engine configuration, identifying solution build dependencies in the Oracle Health Millennium Solution, configuration and unit testing, smoke testing, interface validation, promotion of code to production, interface readiness reporting, production validation, dry runs, table-top rehearsals, Mock Go-Live, Go-Live, and Go-Live staffing support. This role is a central part of the overall clinical deployment effort for the VA OEHRM program. You will provide overall planning, strategic direction, and communications in support of the Release Manager and the Delivery Lead for all interface deployment activities.

*Candidates must be willing to work out of our Arlington, VA office 4x/week

Responsibilities

• Project management responsibilities include the coordination and completion of projects on time, within budget and within scope
• Oversee all aspects of projects to include vendor coordination and communication
• Set deadlines, assign responsibilities and monitor and summarize progress of project
• Prepare reports for upper management regarding status of project
• Work directly with clients and vendors to ensure deliverables fall within the applicable scope and budget
• Coordination with the Release Manager to confirm integration scope, and develop a repeatable process through cutover and deployment
• Coordination with the interface and Oracle Health PMO on status reporting, updates to the integrated master schedule (IMS), and executive level presentations
• Coordinate with the Integration Architects (IAs) and Interface Deployment team regarding interface readiness for events such as Integration Validation
• Document, brief, and escalate risks and issues; plan and execute mitigation strategies for risks and issues
• Communicate defined process and procedures to team members and ensure the process and procedures are being followed
• Ensure that timely and accurate updates for interface deployment status is documented in the tools utilized by the team for reporting status
• Create/Maintain Interface JIRA backlog based on Agile delivery WBS
• 25% travel (DC metro area)