Type of Requisition:
Regular
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
Secret
Public Trust/Other Required:
None
Job Family:
Business Development
Job Qualifications:
Skills:
Business Operations, Electronic Health Record (EHR) Implementations, Market Expansion, Strategic Direction
Certifications:
None
Experience:
15 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
No
Job Description:
GDIT’s Federal Health Team is hiring a Strategic Technology Initiatives, Sr. Director responsible for setting strategic direction for Federal Health IT and Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, including IT operations, modernization, data strategy, and performance analytics.
This position is a hybrid role situated in the DC Metropolitan area. Additionally, the ideal candidate must be able to travel up to 25% to customer and senior leadership meetings.
How You’ll Make an Impact:
Collaborate with stakeholders to include leadership, clinical, business, financial, IT and program operational staff. Drives innovation and transformative initiatives that enhance data-driven decision-making and improve outcomes for users of Federal Health IT solutions. Provides support for the planning, acquisition, management, and implementation of systems and applications necessary to support the clinical, business, financial, and operational needs of customer programs. Build and maintain strong executive relationships across GDIT’s Federal Health Division and within customer stakeholder organizations, while promoting synergy and collaboration.
How you’ll Make an Impact:
- Leads and supports customer objectives, plans capital and operating budget by applying rigorous methodology that ensures systems are developed and/or implemented based on specific criteria (reliability, user satisfaction, flexibility, reusability, scalability, performance and use of industry standards).
- Aligns customer priorities and GDIT’s processes
- Develops a close relationship with customers, partners, IT management, and staff to provide cost effective systems that meet customer needs. Provides consultation as appropriate from an information systems perspective.
- Develops, maintains, and supports policies and procedures regarding application development and data management.
- Sets management priorities, oversees all formalized project and strategic plans.
- Establishes methodologies for the implementation and/or development of state-of-the art IT solutions to ensure systems meet quality, industry, and customer satisfaction standards.
- Establishes standards and guidelines to ensure effective communication and coordination among all stakeholders.
- Provides strategic direction for EHR, and recommends future projects based on recent trends in healthcare, technology industries, and customer needs.
- Investigates the use of new technology to improve business processes.
- Mentors direct and indirect staff.
- Maintains HIPAA, privacy and security standards for protected health information.
- Familiarity with Health Information Exchange (HIE) solutions, as well as the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) open standards
- Lead cross-functional teams in areas such as Analytics, UI/UX and AI development
What You’ll Need (required):
- Bachelor’s degree in computer sciences, computer information systems, systems engineering, or a healthcare IT related field.
- PMP certification.
- Secret Clearance.
- 5+ years of leadership experience in health IT, EHR, or other similarly complex environment.
- 15+ years of progressive experience in managing large application project support teams in large-scale (national or global) programs with an emphasis on project management and outcome delivery.
- Experience developing budgets with a focus on achieving business objectives.
- Experience in vendor management; ensuring products and services are acquired in a cost-effective and timely manner.
- Experience managing multiple concurrent projects with success in meeting budget, timeline, and quality expectations.
- Experience setting policies, procedures, equipment standards, and documentation standards.
What Would Be Even Better (preferred):
- Master’s degree in computer sciences, computer information systems, systems engineering, or business.
- Active Top Secret Clearance.
- 15+ years of experience supporting large Federal Health IT solutions for federal healthcare customers (Indian Health Service, Veterans Affairs, Defense Health Agency.
- Experience working with US Active Duty, Retiree, Veteran, and their beneficiaries and caregivers
- Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle) and ITIL Certifications
- CISSP
Skills & Attributes for Success:
- Ability to multi-task and handle changing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and simply.
- Excellent interpersonal and public speaking skills.
- Ability to prioritize/delegate tasks and activities for a successful program execution
- Ability to prepare budgets and provide productivity assessments.
- Ability to operate calmly under stressful conditions.
- Ability to relate cooperatively and constructively with customers, partners and peers.
- Effectively develop and monitor high performing teams.
- Ability to use logical and analytical thinking to interpret technical data and solve a broad range of problems.
- Able to collect and interpret data related to program operating and financial performance.
- Ability to think strategically.
GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:
- 401K with company match
- Comprehensive health and wellness packages
- Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
- Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
- Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
- Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays
The likely salary range for this position is $166,816 - $210,450. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
Travel Required:
10-25%
Telecommuting Options:
Hybrid
Work Location:
USA VA Falls Church
Additional Work Locations:
Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.
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