Deployment Workstream Lead – Administrative Specialist (VA EHR)

General Dynamics Information Technology

1d•$146,625 - $198,375•Hybrid

About The Position

The Deployment Workstream Lead – Administrative Specialist is responsible for leading and managing a key domain—Technical, Clinical/Functional, or Site Deployment—within a large-scale Electronic Health Record (EHR) system implementation. This role drives the planning, execution, and coordination of assigned workstreams, ensuring alignment with program goals, timelines, budgets, and regulatory requirements. Serving as the primary point of contact for the workstream, the Deployment Workstream Lead facilitates collaboration across internal teams, client stakeholders, site leadership, senior management, and vendor partners. The Deployment Workstream Lead oversees all phases of deployment, from pre‑deployment preparation through go-live and post‑deployment optimization, ensuring successful and compliant delivery. This role is remote with 25% travel to nationwide VA sites. Work Visa Sponsorship will not be considered for this position.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of progressive electronic health records (EHR) support outcome-based functional capability of an assigned workstream across any phase of EHR implementation
3+ years of direct project management and stakeholder engagement experience supporting EHR activities for a software as a service (SaaS) managed EHR solution
Proven experience working in a clinical environment supporting project management
Proven proficiency with MS Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Project)
Strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills
Must be able to obtain a Position of Trust and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting

Nice To Haves

Experience with Oracle Health EHR (or similar EHR platforms)
Prior experience in large-scale Healthcare IT or EHR deployments
Demonstrated expertise within Technical, Clinical/Functional, or Site Deployment workstream domains
Familiarity with clinical workflows and healthcare delivery environments
Experience supporting client teams within veteran, military, or federal healthcare settings

Responsibilities

Deployment Leadership & People Management Provide operational leadership for the assigned workstream, guiding teams through planning, execution, and post-go-live activities.
Manage day-to-day workstream operations, ensuring issues are resolved promptly and effectively.
Coordinate workstream contributors across technical, functional, and site-based teams.
Large-Scale Program Management & Strategic Planning Lead strategic and tactical planning efforts to align workstream activities with the overall deployment roadmap.
Identify risks, dependencies, and mitigation strategies to ensure smooth execution across multiple sites.
Ensure all activities comply with organizational, regulatory, and security requirements.
Stakeholder Management & Executive Communication Serve as the primary point of contact for the workstream, enabling effective communication across diverse stakeholder groups.
Provide structured updates to leadership and executive stakeholders on progress, risks, escalations, and metrics.
Cultivate trusted relationships with client teams, vendor partners, and internal program areas.
Risk & Issue Management Proactively identify, document, escalate, and resolve risks and issues affecting deployment success.
Support triage and incident management workflows, forums, and related operational processes.
Document and escalate patient safety issues through established channels for timely resolution.
Metrics, Reporting & Deliverable Development Prepare and deliver workstream materials including data analyses, dashboards, presentations, and written documentation.
Produce metrics and reports that support visibility, decision-making, and continuous improvement.
Maintain accurate tracking tools, dashboards, and status reports.

Benefits

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.
GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year.
Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire.
The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
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.

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