Project Manager, FEHRM Healthcare Technology Management - Interoperability

Blue Water Thinking, LLC; United States; Remote; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

401(k) plan

Job summary

Blue Water Thinking is seeking an Interoperability Project Manager to support the VA FEHRM program. You will coordinate HTM interface workstreams across multiple VA medical centers, collaborating with national, regional, and site-level teams, Oracle Health, vendors, and program offices.

Candidates should have recent experience with healthcare interfaces, HTM operations, or healthcare deployment, and strong project coordination, communication, and documentation skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with 5+ years of experience.
• Experience with healthcare interfaces, medical device integration, HTM operations, or healthcare deployment.
• Ability to coordinate projects across technical, clinical, vendor, and leadership stakeholders.
• Ability to follow technical discussions and communicate issues clearly.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate interface planning, schedules, dependencies, testing, and deployment milestones across multiple sites.
• Participate in interface/workflow discussions with Oracle Health and facility teams.
• Document decisions, risks, actions, and owners through resolution.
• Translate discussions into status reports and leadership briefings.
• Support interface work through planning, testing, deployment, and postdeployment.

Skills

Healthcare interfaces

Project coordination

Stakeholder communication

HTM operations understanding

Technical discussion participation

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

HL7

Oracle Health Cerner Millennium

VA FEHRM familiarity

Job description

About Blue Water Thinking

Fully Remote - Based in USA

Guided by our principles of value generation, continuous innovation, customer-centricity, and vested collaboration, Blue Water Thinking proudly supports our Federal clients in achieving their Agency goals.

Founded by a decorated twenty-eight year Veteran of the United States Army, Blue Water Thinking understands and supports the mission of our Nation's war fighters, Veterans, their families and caretakers.

Leveraging our executive team's military experience and private and public sector consulting expertise, Blue Water Thinking takes an integrated "one-team" approach and brings to bear best-fit solutions, thought leadership, and grit to meet our client's transformational needs.

Fueled by our values of integrity, respect, professionalism, stewardship and customer service, the Blue Water Thinking team understands the power of the human connection, collaboration, humility and loyalty to one another, our clients and industry partners.

Lastly, our formula for success is simple: Build something good, take care of our people, keep our clients satisfied, nurture our work ethic and reputation, build long-lasting partnerships, enjoy what we do and give back as much as possible.

Job Description:

The Interoperability Project Manager supports healthcare technology management (HTM) interface work associated with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization (FEHRM) program. This role coordinates simultaneous interface workstreams across multiple VA medical centers. The Project Manager works directly with national, regional, and site-level Biomedical Engineering and clinical teams, technical teams, Oracle Health, third-party vendors, and program management offices across the VA enterprise.

Successful candidates bring recent, practical experience with healthcare interfaces, medical device integration, HTM operations, or healthcare technology deployment, along with strong project coordination skills. They can participate in a technical discussion, recognize an open issue, ask questions to understand its workflow and milestone impacts, and communicate those impacts clearly to leadership.

*Travel associated with this role will consist of being away for about a week every 2 months*

Responsibilities:

• Ability to coordinate interface planning, schedules, dependencies, testing, issue resolution, and deployment milestones across technical, vendor, and VA site teams in a large-scale program with multiple concurrent hospital systems.
• Participate actively in interface and workflow discussions with Oracle Health, facility teams, and technical specialists. Ask focused questions to clarify requirements, ownership, open issues, and next steps.
• Recognize when a technical or workflow issue may affect testing, deployment readiness, or another project milestone; document the impact and elevate concerns at the appropriate time.
• Track decisions, risks, action items, and owners through resolution across multiple facilities and stakeholders.
• Translate detailed interface discussions into accurate meeting documentation, status reports, executive summaries, and leadership briefings.
• Coordinate follow-up among Biomedical Engineering, clinical staff, technical teams, vendors, and program stakeholders.
• Support interface work throughout planning, testing, deployment, and post-deployment follow-up.
• Work within applicable VHA processes, federal requirements, and healthcare technology practices.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and at least 5 years of relevant professional experience.
• Recent, practical experience with healthcare interfaces, medical device integration, hospital HTM operations, or healthcare systems implementation.
• Experience coordinating projects or complex work across technical, clinical, vendor, and leadership stakeholders.
• Working understanding of interface activities sufficient to follow technical discussions, identify unresolved questions, and recognize project or workflow impacts.
• Ability to ask useful technical follow-up questions, drive action items to resolution, and communicate issues clearly to technical teams and leadership.
• Self-starter with strong organizational skills, sound judgment, intellectual curiosity, and excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting VHA operations or a multi-facility EHR deployment.
• Familiarity with Oracle Health Cerner Millennium or VA FEHRM.
• Familiarity with HL7 messaging or healthcare interface testing; expert-level HL7 proficiency is not required.
• Experience with medical device, imaging, laboratory, or other clinical system interfaces.
• Familiarity with applicable healthcare regulatory requirements and standards.
• Experience using tools, including AI-assisted tools, to improve documentation, analysis, or workflow efficiency.

Eligibility Requirements:

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a federal public trust clearance.

Compensation:

Salary for this position is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, location, the candidate’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, competencies and experience, as well as contract specific affordability and organizational requirements. The proposed salary range for this position is outlined below.

Salary range: $95,000 - $125,000

Blue Water Thinking offers a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance (medical, dental and vision), paid time off, federal holidays, and matching 401K plan.

Reasonable Accommodation for Applicants

Blue Water Thinking is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the application and hiring process. If you require a reasonable accommodation to search for a position, complete an application, or participate in the interview process, please contact Resource Management at [e-mail]. Requests for accommodation will be handled promptly and confidentially in accordance with applicable law.

Our Commitment to Equal Employment Opportunity.

Blue Water Thinking is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We recruit, hire, train, and promote qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Voluntary Self-Identification

For government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey.Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiringprocess or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in aconfidential file.

As set forth in Blue Water Thinking’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy,we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection.As a government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measurethe effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categoriesis as follows:

A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.

A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.

An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.

An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.