VA Electronic Health Record Modernization- Site Lead

General Dynamics Information Technology

8d•$124,093 - $144,900•Hybrid

About The Position

GDIT's Federal Health Division is hiring a Site Lead to provide operational leadership and coordination for a large-scale, multi-site Veterans Affairs Electronic Health Record (EHR) system deployment. Work Location: Remote/Hybrid (Nationwide) Travel Requirements: Up to 75% On-Site Percentage: 60% Remote/Hybrid with extensive national travel High-interaction role requiring coordination across multiple stakeholder groups Fast-paced environment supporting mission-critical healthcare transformation initiatives This role is responsible for planning, executing, and managing of an assigned workstream across all phases of EHR deployment—pre-deployment, go-live, and post-deployment optimization. Acting as the primary point of contact for a workstream, the Site Lead ensures effective collaboration and communication among technical teams, clinical stakeholders, site leadership, vendors, and senior management.

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
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 Clinical Information Systems
Prior experience in Healthcare IT or EHR deployment environments
Demonstrated expertise in the relevant workstream domains supporting EHR deployments
Experience working within federal, veteran, or military healthcare environments
Familiarity with clinical workflows across inpatient and outpatient settings

Responsibilities

Lead and manage daily operational support for assigned EHR deployment workstreams.
Plan, track, and coordinate workstream activities to meet project goals, timelines, and budget constraints.
Serve as the primary liaison across technical, clinical, operational, and leadership stakeholders to promote effective decision-making and issue resolution.
Oversee all deployment phases, ensuring readiness, alignment, and seamless execution as sites transition to the new EHR.
Communicate routinely with stakeholders to provide updates, surface challenges, mitigate risks, and maintain progress on deliverables.
Build and maintain trusted relationships with client partners, vendor teams, and internal colleagues.
Develop deep expertise in the client’s policies, processes, workflows, and organizational structures to effectively carry out workstream responsibilities.
Support creation of program materials including data analysis, slide decks, written documentation, and status reports to inform leadership and drive progress.
Identify, document, and escalate patient safety concerns arising during deployment using established pathways for timely adjudication and resolution.
Coordinate triage activities related to incident management workflows, forums, and stakeholder events.
Provide onsite support as needed for readiness activities, go-live activation, and post-deployment optimization.
Ability to travel up to 75% to various VA client sites. nationwide.

Benefits

Work on a mission that matters—delivering outcomes for Veterans and their families.
Access the latest cloud and automation technologies in a modern engineering environment.
Enjoy flexible work options, continuous learning, and a strong culture of purpose and performance.
Be part of a collaborative team driving innovation in government IT.
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.
We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.