Description
The Leidos Partnership for Defense Health is seeking a Deputy Chief Engineer to join our Virtual Health team, work REMOTELY and support its $4.6B single award DHMSM IDIQ contract, known as MHS GENESIS. This highly visible program provides modernization of Electronic Health Records (EHR) capabilities for the Department of Defense, supporting nearly 10 million service members and their families worldwide. While every healthcare system is addressing quality, user experience and cost, the MHS GENESIS program has the added challenge of delivering these objectives within the DOD security environment, at the DOD’s global scale, all while supporting the Defense Health Agency (DHA)’s vision of a medically ready force ─ which is essential to our national defense.
The DHMSM Deputy Chief Engineer for Virtual Health – will support the DHMSM Program Manager and Chief Engineer in technical efforts surrounding requirements on the program associated with the Virtual Health space within the Military Health System (MHS). The Deputy Chief Engineer for Virtual Health will work closely with the Chief Engineer, Systems Engineering & Integration Lead, and Engineering Lead to create strategies, plans, and processes for the rollout and sustainment of DHMSM Virtual Health services. The Deputy Chief Engineer for Virtual Health will be a key liaison to the DHMSM PMO Virtual Health, Virtual Health product line, Systems Engineering and Baseline Assistant PMs, and supporting technical teams.
Primary Responsibilities
Technical subject matter expert supporting program and customer in developing and executing roadmap for integrating new virtual health capabilities into MHS ecosystem.
Provide architecture and engineering analysis of a highly complex system of systems to deploy Virtual Health capabilities through functional systems analysis, design, and integration. Advise on complex matters that require expert level knowledge of systems engineering, integration and test for effective implementation.
Provide technical leadership to design, development, integration and sustainment (break/fix) of system components and associated interfaces in pre- and post-deployment phases. Provide leadership of technical activities to stabilize system operation and ensure suitable system performance.
Manage and advise teams during complete product lifecycle to implement Virtual Health capabilities through leadership using formal specifications, data flow diagrams, and other accepted design techniques. Lead teams to estimate system capability improvement or enhancement costs and schedule associated with new Virtual Health capabilities.
Review existing Virtual Health system components and assist in making refinements, reducing operating time, improving current techniques and providing recommendations for systems improvements.
Develop plans and requirements for complex systems related to the Virtual Health systems architecture, networking, telecommunications, automation, communications protocols, risk management/electronic analysis, software, lifecycle management, software development methodologies, and modeling and simulation. Perform functional allocation to identify required tasks and their interrelationships. Identify resources required for each task. Review existing processes and procedures for improvements and provide recommendations to LPDH and DHMSM leadership for execution. Support the implementation of these process and procedure improvements.
Regular briefings to and communication with GS-14 and GS-15 level government customers. Support to Chief Engineer briefings to SES level government customers is possible.
Mentor and coach technical staff. Provide recommendations to the Chief Engineer about additional junior or mid-level staffing needs of the program.
Basic Qualifications
BS degree and 17 years of prior relevant experience
US Citizen with an active ADP2/IT2 Public Trust (or higher) clearance. Federal Government requirement.
Demonstrated expertise in systems engineering, including requirements analysis and system architecture design
Demonstrated experience designing and implementing complex IT solutions in a large-scale enterprise
Demonstrated experience in practical application of lifecycle engineering for IT infrastructure
Demonstrated experience designing and modernizing complex enterprise networks and legacy IT systems
Demonstrated experience applying System Engineering Lifecycle (SELC) processes and best practices
Project management experience working with Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), IMS, and work authorizations
Understanding of cost and schedule development as well as controls to conduct root cause analysis and identify corrective actions
Experience with Virtual Health product/capability design, integration, implementation, and operations
Experience with baseline change control processes
Experience with resource/staffing needs assessment, hiring, and team management, as well as setting leadership team expectations and delegating duties appropriately
Demonstrated exceptional oral and written communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with EHR system interface configuration, implementation, and operation
Experience troubleshooting deployed IT systems, including databases
Experience interpreting and decomposing requirements
Experience with technical road mapping, to include deployment planning
Experience with software development methodologies, including testing
Experience with DoD/DHA Cybersecurity implementations
Experience managing technical teams (integrated product teams)
Experience in large-scale COTS integration
Familiarity with DoD/DHA Configuration Management and Systems Engineering methodologies
Experience with Oracle Health solutions, Dentrix Enterprise, and Rhapsody
Experience with medical and/or dental record integration or transition
Experience with implementations in cloud architectures (AWS (GovCloud), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Azure) preferably within the DoD/DHA
Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipeline architectures
Original Posting Date:
2024-11-15
While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
Pay Range -
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
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