Healthcare IT Workstream Project Manager

Cherokee Federal is a tribally owned federal contracting organization serving government clients. The Healthcare IT Workstream Project Manager will manage a workstream within an Indian Health Service modernization program focused on migrating patient data to a new data warehouse. The role coordinates planning, delivery, risks, dependencies, stakeholders, data-migration activities, testing, readiness, and reporting.

Responsibilities:

• Manage an assigned workstream supporting migration of current patient data to the new Four Directions Warehouse for the IHS client
• Develop and maintain the workstream plan, schedule, milestones, dependencies, assumptions, risks, issues, decisions, and change-control documentation
• Coordinate workstream activities with program leadership and other technical, clinical, functional, data, integration, analytics, and site-deployment workstreams
• Support data-migration activities within the assigned workstream, including requirements definition, source-data assessment, mapping, transformation, validation, reconciliation, testing, cutover, and post-deployment stabilization, as applicable
• Coordinate with IHS stakeholders, clinical subject-matter experts, data owners, technical teams, subcontractors, and vendors to define priorities, resolve issues, and maintain delivery alignment
• Track workstream readiness and manage cross-workstream dependencies that affect the migration, integration, availability, quality, or use of current patient data in the new Four Directions Warehouse
• Establish and/or maintain workstream governance, including status reporting, RAID logs, decision logs, action-item tracking, and executive briefings
• Support data-quality and acceptance activities to verify that current patient data is complete, accurate, secure, available, and fit for intended clinical and operational use
• Facilitate workstream meetings, working sessions, readiness reviews, and stakeholder communications to drive timely decisions and accountability
• Support user acceptance testing, operational readiness, deployment planning, and post-implementation issue resolution for the assigned workstream
• Maintain program scope, schedule, and delivery commitments through disciplined risk, dependency, and change management
• Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Active PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is required and familiarity with both waterfall and agile delivery
• Experience managing a workstream or major functional area within a large, complex healthcare IT implementation, data modernization, or data-migration program
• Experience supporting patient-data, clinical-data, EHR, clinical data repository, data warehouse, data integration, or healthcare analytics initiatives
• Demonstrated experience managing workstream schedules, milestones, RAID logs, dependencies, change control, stakeholder communications, and executive status reporting
• Experience coordinating technical teams, clinical or functional stakeholders, data owners, vendors, and subcontractors in a multi-workstream environment
• Strong ability to communicate technical delivery status, risks, dependencies, and decisions to business and executive stakeholders
• U.S. citizenship, pass pre-employment qualifications of Cherokee Federal and must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance through the Government
• Experience supporting IHS, tribal health, federal healthcare, or other government health programs
• Experience supporting patient-data migration, healthcare data warehouse implementation, clinical data repositories, data conversion, or data integration
• Knowledge of healthcare data standards and technologies relevant to the assigned workstream, such as HL7, FHIR, DICOM, ETL/ELT processes, APIs, clinical data models, or data-quality tools
• Experience with data validation, reconciliation, clinical/business acceptance, testing, deployment readiness, or cutover planning
• Experience supporting imaging, radiology, CT/X-ray, DICOM, clinical analytics, or other specialized healthcare data domains
• Experience supporting large EHR implementation, modernization, interoperability, or clinical systems integration programs