Responsibilities
- Lead planning, execution, and delivery of enterprise AI software development projects supporting VA healthcare initiatives.
- Develop and manage integrated project schedules, milestones, deliverables, resource plans, and roadmaps, including clinical validation, governance, security, and approval dependencies.
- Manage project scope, risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and change requests, including decisions requiring Government approval.
- Ensure project execution aligns with contractual requirements, business priorities, and delivery objectives.
- Provide leadership that promotes collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement across multidisciplinary teams.
- Lead delivery of Generative AI solutions utilizing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures and Large Language Models (LLMs).
- Coordinate activities between Government stakeholders, clinicians, architects, engineers, cybersecurity teams, privacy and AI governance stakeholders, and product owners.
- Facilitate discovery sessions, requirements validation, solution demonstrations, and clinical feedback sessions.
- Coordinate AI governance, Responsible AI, Human-in-the-Loop (HITL), security, privacy, and clinical validation activities.
- Ensure AI capabilities align with clinical workflows, business objectives, and approved MVP scope, with measurable acceptance criteria for quality, source traceability, clinical relevance, latency, and clinician feedback.
- Provide delivery oversight across Agile teams, ensuring sprint plans, dependencies, milestones, and release objectives align with the project roadmap.
- Partner with Product Owners and Scrum Masters to support Agile planning, refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Monitor sprint progress, delivery metrics, and release readiness.
- Coordinate resolution of cross-team impediments requiring Government, security, governance, clinical, or architectural decisions.
- Coordinate test-environment readiness, clinical evaluation, and future transition planning with Government stakeholders.
- Monitor project risks, technical dependencies, and schedule impacts while developing mitigation strategies.
- Coordinate activities supporting Federal cybersecurity, privacy, AI governance, clinical validation, and Authority to Operate (ATO) planning.
- Ensure compliance with applicable VA Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), security, and operational requirements.
- Support project reporting, audit readiness, governance readiness, and executive decision-making through accurate documentation and status reporting.
- Prepare executive briefings, project status reports, dashboards, and milestone updates.
- Present project progress, risks, dependencies, and recommendations to executive leadership and Government customers.
- Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Foster strong customer relationships through proactive communication and collaboration.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, Healthcare Informatics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years leading enterprise software development projects.
- 5+ years managing Agile software development teams delivering cloud-based applications.
- Demonstrated experience leading Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or Generative AI capabilities through development, evaluation, and formal approval.
- Experience delivering AWS cloud applications using Amazon Bedrock or similar AI platforms.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams in regulated healthcare or Federal environments.
- Agile Software Development (Scrum/Kanban)
- Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) delivery lifecycles
- Amazon Bedrock and AWS AI services
- Prompt engineering, source grounding, hallucination testing, human validation, and AI evaluation methodologies
- Cloud architecture and DevSecOps practices
- REST APIs and enterprise system integration
- Healthcare interoperability standards (FHIR, HL7, CCD)
- Risk management and software delivery lifecycle
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- 401(k) with Employer Match
- Paid Time Off plus Federal Holidays
- Corporate Laptop
- Professional Development and Training Opportunities
- Remote Opportunity
Work Arrangement
Remote (Country) — Remote (United States)
Additional Information
- U.S. Citizenship is required.
- All selected candidates must successfully complete a background check.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Government/Public Trust clearance, including required fingerprinting, when required for the position.
- Sorry, we are unable to offer sponsorship at this time.
