Principal Program Manager – Informatics

Aptive Resources

Principal Program Manager providing leadership and operational oversight for Department of Veterans Affairs health informatics modernization. Managing multidisciplinary teams and complex modernization efforts across VA programs.

Posted 6/9/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PMP

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as the primary program management lead and key client-facing point of contact for VA health informatics workstreams.
Manage cost, schedule, performance, staffing, risk, quality, deliverables, and issue escalation across multiple concurrent workstreams.
Lead program planning, kickoff, monthly status reporting, staffing roster updates, and project closeout activities.
Guide Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe practices to support lean business case development, feature delivery, sprint ceremonies, retrospectives, and continuous improvement.
Coordinate multidisciplinary SMEs, clinical informaticists, health systems specialists, analysts, and technical resources to support IHP, HITT, IRCP, CIOC, VistA/CPRS education/training, and related activities.
Develop and maintain strong working relationships with Government leads, VA program offices, VAMC stakeholders, field informatics staff, and cross-functional contractor teams.
Apply proactive risk, issue, and opportunity management to anticipate schedule, deployment, resource, and stakeholder impacts.
Ensure deliverables are accurate, timely, high quality, compliant with client expectations, and aligned to program objectives.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Master's degree in a relevant field; additional years of directly relevant experience may be considered for highly qualified candidates when contractually permissible.
15+ years of program or project management experience supporting large federal healthcare, health IT, or clinical informatics programs.
10+ years of experience managing complex programs for a federal agency or large corporation; VA/VHA experience strongly preferred.
Experience managing a portfolio of diverse IT or health informatics projects, including cost, schedule, performance, risk, staffing, and quality management.
Experience with SAFe Lean-Agile principles, Scrum/Agile delivery, and organizational change or operational excellence initiatives.
PMP, Scrum Master, SAFe, or equivalent industry-recognized certification.
Ability to obtain and maintain a public trust clearance.
Legal authorization to work in the U.S.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours
Paid time off

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Hard Skills & Tools

program managementcost managementschedule managementperformance managementrisk managementquality managementAgileScrumKanbanSAFe

Soft Skills

client-facingleadershipcommunicationrelationship buildingproactive managementproblem-solvingcollaborationorganizational skillsstakeholder managementcontinuous improvement

Certifications

PMPScrum MasterSAFe