Principal Program Manager – Informatics

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Aptive Resources

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2012

🏛️ Government

Healthcare • Government • Consulting

Aptive Resources is a management consulting firm based in Alexandria, Virginia, specializing in providing innovative solutions to federal government agencies, particularly in veteran and civilian health sectors. With a strong focus on performance optimization, human capital, and data analytics, Aptive aims to improve the quality and accessibility of health care services for veterans and the general public. The company utilizes technology and human-centered services to bridge divides and enhance public service delivery for multiple agencies, including Veterans Affairs, Defense, and others.

📋 Description

• Serve as the primary program management lead and key client-facing point of contact for VA health informatics workstreams. • Manage cost, schedule, performance, staffing, risk, quality, deliverables, and issue escalation across multiple concurrent workstreams. • Lead program planning, kickoff, monthly status reporting, staffing roster updates, and project closeout activities. • Guide Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe practices to support lean business case development, feature delivery, sprint ceremonies, retrospectives, and continuous improvement. • Coordinate multidisciplinary SMEs, clinical informaticists, health systems specialists, analysts, and technical resources to support IHP, HITT, IRCP, CIOC, VistA/CPRS education/training, and related activities. • Develop and maintain strong working relationships with Government leads, VA program offices, VAMC stakeholders, field informatics staff, and cross-functional contractor teams. • Apply proactive risk, issue, and opportunity management to anticipate schedule, deployment, resource, and stakeholder impacts. • Ensure deliverables are accurate, timely, high quality, compliant with client expectations, and aligned to program objectives.

🎯 Requirements

• Master's degree in a relevant field; additional years of directly relevant experience may be considered for highly qualified candidates when contractually permissible. • 15+ years of program or project management experience supporting large federal healthcare, health IT, or clinical informatics programs. • 10+ years of experience managing complex programs for a federal agency or large corporation; VA/VHA experience strongly preferred. • Experience managing a portfolio of diverse IT or health informatics projects, including cost, schedule, performance, risk, staffing, and quality management. • Experience with SAFe Lean-Agile principles, Scrum/Agile delivery, and organizational change or operational excellence initiatives. • PMP, Scrum Master, SAFe, or equivalent industry-recognized certification. • Ability to obtain and maintain a public trust clearance. • Legal authorization to work in the U.S.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • 401(k) matching • Flexible work hours • Paid time off