Principal Program Manager

Aptive

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About The Position

Aptive Resources LLC is seeking a highly experienced Principal Program Manager, Informatics in support of the Office of Health Informatics (OHI) and Office of Clinical Informatics (OCI). This senior leadership role is responsible for overall contract performance, delivery quality, and alignment of OCI informatics features with VA strategic objectives.
This role serves as the single point of accountability for program execution, providing day-to-day leadership across multidisciplinary informatics, clinical, technical, and agile teams operating in a SAFe® environment.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in a relevant discipline.
• Minimum of 15 years of experience managing complex healthcare IT or clinical informatics programs
• 20 years of relevant healthcare IT or clinical informatics program leadership experience may substitute masters education with a Bachelor’s degree.
• Demonstrated expertise managing enterprise-scale programs using SAFe® Lean-Agile principles.
• Experience supporting VA clinical informatics operations, including EHR modernization initiatives across CPRS/VistA and Oracle Health environments.
• Extensive experience with full systems development life cycle (SDLC), enterprise IT governance, and portfolio management.
• Proven ability to manage multidisciplinary teams and multiple concurrent initiatives.

Nice To Haves

• Direct experience supporting VA ServiceNow development or other VA IT platforms (e.g., CDW, VistA).
• Understanding of VA OIT tollgate, governance, and deployment processes.
• Familiarity with QA/test workflows, including experience supporting stabilization and remediation efforts.
• Exposure to Tiered Hub Process (THB) models or distributed Agile team structures.
• Ability to work in high-pressure, delivery-critical environments with shifting priorities and multiple dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Provide full lifecycle program leadership for the OIP task order, ensuring delivery of high-quality MOIP and COIP features in accordance with the PWS.
• Serve as the Contractor’s authorized representative for all programmatic matters, with full authority over cost, schedule, performance, and staffing.
• Drive Lean-Agile adoption and continuous improvement across teams in alignment with SAFe® principles.
• Lead planning and execution within the SAFe® framework, overseeing Agile Release Trains (ARTs), program increments, iteration planning, and value delivery.
• Manage and mitigate program risks through proactive risk identification, risk registers, mitigation strategies, and executive reporting.
• Coordinate closely with VA leadership, Product Owners, Business Owners, CORs, and stakeholders to maintain alignment with OCI priorities and EHRM objectives.
• Oversee integrated teams delivering informatics analysis, clinical workflow optimization, interoperability, analytics, and operational reporting.
• Ensure all deliverables meet VA quality standards, branding requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Lead development and execution of Phase-In and Phase-Out Plans, as required.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees