Program Manager – Contingent
ARETUM
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Virginia • United States
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About the role
- Serve as the primary Aretum representative to VA leadership, COR, program offices, clinicians, and technical teams.
- Oversee all phases of the program: pilot, enterprise rollout, full capability deployment, and option periods.
- Coordinate across Aretum and subcontractors to ensure unified delivery
- Lead efforts related to AWS cloud architecture, ATO compliance, and secure hosting — aligning with experience performing cloud modernization and architecture reviews.
- Oversee architecture review processes, ensuring solutions comply with VA enterprise standards and cloud governance frameworks.
- Manage multi-million-dollar program operations including schedule, resourcing, risk, budget oversight, KPI tracking, and contract deliverables.
- Apply mature program management practices consistent with managing $50M+ programs and multi-disciplinary teams
- Lead integration activities between Polypharmacy software, VA systems, cloud environments, and data platforms.
- Direct testing, validation, performance improvement, and pilot success criteria defined in the QASP.
- Drive organizational change strategies aligning with VA clinical operations, Veteran-facing experiences, and enterprise engineering teams.
- Facilitate communications, training coordination, and adoption activities.
- Define staffing needs; develop role descriptions; oversee interviews and onboarding.
- Lead matrixed teams including cloud engineers, security SMEs, analysts, architects, and clinical-technical staff.
Requirements
- 10+ years in federal program management, including direct experience with VA or other large federal health agencies.
- Demonstrated success managing enterprise cloud migrations, architecture reviews, or infrastructure modernization projects.
- Experience coordinating across multiple federal stakeholders, primes, subcontractors, and technical domains.
- Familiarity with AWS / Azure cloud architectures, Well-Architected Framework, FedRAMP, VA Enterprise cloud hosting, and ATO processes.
- Strong background leading cross-functional teams and driving outcomes in environments with high visibility and mission impact.
- Hands-on experience with troubleshooting, major incident resolution, and performance optimization in large enterprise systems.
- **Preferred Requirements**
- Experience supporting clinical decision support, medication safety, or polypharmacy programs.
- Prior leadership supporting Veteran-facing enterprise applications, especially involving back-end system integration at scale.
- PMP, ITIL, or Cloud Architect certifications
Benefits
- Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- Retirement Plan (401k)
- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
- Paid Time Off
- Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
- Short Term & Long-Term Disability
- Training & Development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
AWS cloud architectureATO compliancecloud modernizationarchitecture reviewsprogram managemententerprise cloud migrationsinfrastructure modernizationtroubleshootingperformance optimizationdata platforms
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationcoordinationorganizational change strategiescross-functional team leadershiptraining coordinationstakeholder managementrisk managementbudget oversightKPI tracking
Certifications
PMPITILCloud Architect