Federal Health Strategic Technology Initiatives, Sr Director

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 su