Technical Project Manager

LTS is seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager to lead a major AI-powered modernization initiative within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health portfolio. This role will oversee the planning, coordination, execution, and delivery of complex modernization efforts, ensuring successful collaboration among diverse technical teams.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage AI IT modernization projects supporting VA healthcare and enterprise transformation initiatives, ensuring delivery teams leverage AI platform outputs to accelerate analysis, documentation, and development
• Coordinate cross-functional teams including AI/ML engineers, prompt engineers, legacy system specialists, development, infrastructure, cybersecurity, integration, and operations personnel across concurrent workstreams
• Develop and manage integrated program plans, schedules, resource allocations, risks, and deliverables across both an AI platform team and a modernization delivery team operating on overlapping timelines
• Facilitate Agile sprint execution across multiple concurrent scrum teams, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, ensuring AI-generated analysis is embedded in backlog development and acceptance criteria
• Track project progress, milestones, dependencies, sprint velocity, and budget considerations to ensure successful execution and on-time delivery of program proof points
• Support modernization efforts involving legacy VistA/MUMPS-based systems and enterprise healthcare applications
• Provide informed oversight of AI platform activities including legacy code ingestion, dependency mapping, workflow generation, and business rules extraction, ensuring platform outputs directly accelerate modernization delivery
• Operate within VA’s Veterans-focused Integration Process (VIP) framework, aligning sprint delivery, artifact production, and approval sequencing to VIP phase gates throughout the program lifecycle
• Collaborate with government leadership and program stakeholders to align project execution with mission objectives and strategic priorities
• Identify, manage, and mitigate project risks including those specific to AI-assisted delivery such as model output reliability, dependency mapping gaps, and data lineage requirements in federal environments
• Ensure compliance with VA, federal, and organizational governance, reporting, and documentation requirements, including DevSecOps standards, CI/CD pipeline governance, and VA development approval processes
• Facilitate status meetings, executive briefings, sprint reviews, and stakeholder communications, translating complex technical and AI delivery progress into mission-impact language for VA leadership
• Support change management, process improvement, and operational transition activities, ensuring modernization outcomes are positioned for sustained VA adoption beyond the pilot period
• Develop and maintain project documentation including program plans, schedules, risk registers, meeting minutes, action trackers, executive reports, and VA governance artifacts required at each phase gate
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on delivery excellence, AI output quality, team collaboration, and establishing reusable modernization patterns for future program application
• Coordinate ATO and FedRAMP planning activities from program inception, tracking SSP progress, ISSO engagement, security control mapping, and evidence collection so that accreditation is not a late-stage blocker
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for day-to-day VA program office interactions, coordinating upward with executive leadership for strategic and client relationship matters

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business, Information Technology, Healthcare Administration, Engineering, or related discipline
• 10+ years of technical project or program management experience supporting enterprise IT or healthcare modernization initiatives, with at least 3 years leading AI, ML, or intelligent automation delivery programs
• Demonstrated experience managing complex federal government IT programs, preferably within the VA or a major federal health agency with direct exposure to federal IT governance frameworks. Consideration will be given to experience within healthcare environments
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, Scrum practices, and hybrid project delivery models
• Fluency with AI/ML project lifecycles, model development, model development, prompt engineering pipelines, LLM-based applications, and AI platform integration into agile delivery workflows
• Experience managing technical teams supporting software development, infrastructure, integration, or cloud modernization initiatives
• Strong Agile/Scrum delivery background with experience managing concurrent scrum teams in federal environments. Coupled with Experience with DevSecOps in federal environments: CI/CD pipeline governance, branching strategies, automated security scanning, and alignment to VA or DoD DevSecOps standards
• Strong organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills
• Experience managing project schedules, risks, dependencies, and reporting activities
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and executive-level stakeholders
• Experience using project management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms
• Ability to obtain and maintain a VA Public Trust clearance
• Experience supporting VA healthcare systems, VistA, CPRS, or VA Electronic Health Record modernization initiatives
• Familiarity with MUMPS-based healthcare systems and legacy modernization programs
• Experience supporting large-scale digital transformation or enterprise modernization efforts
• Knowledge of federal healthcare interoperability standards including HL7 and FHIR
• Experience working within DevSecOps and cloud modernization environments
• Working knowledge of VA's VIP (Veterans-focused Integration Process) framework and ability to align sprint delivery, artifact production, and approval sequencing to VIP phase gates
• Direct experience navigating VA or federal ATO processes including FedRAMP, NIST 800-53 control frameworks, SSP development, and ISSO coordination. Or familiarity with federal cybersecurity and compliance frameworks including NIST and FedRamp
• PMP, PMI-ACP, Scrum Master, or other project management certifications preferred
• Prior experience supporting healthcare IT operations or clinical systems environments preferred