Program Manager - Contingent (VA)

Aretum•McLean, VA

2h•Remote

About The Position

Aretum is seeking a highly experienced Program Manager to lead delivery for the VA’s enterprise-wide Reducing Inappropriate Polypharmacy initiative. This program is mission-critical, integrating clinical polypharmacy software with VA enterprise cloud environments, security frameworks, and operational processes. The role requires a senior leader with demonstrated experience managing complex federal programs, navigating VA infrastructure, and driving outcomes across large technical and cross-functional teams.

Requirements

10+ years in federal program management, including direct experience with VA or other large federal health agencies.
Demonstrated success managing enterprise cloud migrations, architecture reviews, or infrastructure modernization projects.
Experience coordinating across multiple federal stakeholders, primes, subcontractors, and technical domains.
Familiarity with AWS / Azure cloud architectures, Well-Architected Framework, FedRAMP, VA Enterprise cloud hosting, and ATO processes.
Strong background leading cross-functional teams and driving outcomes in environments with high visibility and mission impact.
Hands-on experience with troubleshooting, major incident resolution, and performance optimization in large enterprise systems.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting clinical decision support, medication safety, or polypharmacy programs.
Prior leadership supporting Veteran-facing enterprise applications, especially involving back-end system integration at scale.
PMP, ITIL, or Cloud Architect certifications

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary Aretum representative to VA leadership, COR, program offices, clinicians, and technical teams.
Oversee all phases of the program: pilot, enterprise rollout, full capability deployment, and option periods.
Coordinate across Aretum and subcontractors to ensure unified delivery
Lead efforts related to AWS cloud architecture, ATO compliance, and secure hosting — aligning with experience performing cloud modernization and architecture reviews.
Oversee architecture review processes, ensuring solutions comply with VA enterprise standards and cloud governance frameworks.
Manage multi-million-dollar program operations including schedule, resourcing, risk, budget oversight, KPI tracking, and contract deliverables.
Apply mature program management practices consistent with managing $50M+ programs and multi-disciplinary teams
Lead integration activities between Polypharmacy software, VA systems, cloud environments, and data platforms.
Direct testing, validation, performance improvement, and pilot success criteria defined in the QASP.
Drive organizational change strategies aligning with VA clinical operations, Veteran-facing experiences, and enterprise engineering teams.
Facilitate communications, training coordination, and adoption activities.
Define staffing needs; develop role descriptions; oversee interviews and onboarding.
Lead matrixed teams including cloud engineers, security SMEs, analysts, architects, and clinical-technical staff.