Healthcare IT Workstream Project Manager

About the role

The Healthcare IT Workstream Project Manager manages an assigned workstream within the Indian Health Service (IHS) modernization program, focusing on migrating current patient data to a new Four Directions Warehouse environment. This role is part of Cherokee Nation Integrated Health (CNIH), a division of Cherokee Federal – the tribally owned federal contracting company owned by Cherokee Nation Businesses. The Project Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, executing, and reporting on the workstream, managing scope, schedule, risks, dependencies, resources, stakeholders, subcontractors, and delivery readiness while working closely with IHS stakeholders, technical teams, clinical and functional leads, data owners, vendors, and program leadership to ensure the workstream delivers aligned, high‑quality outcomes that support the broader warehouse migration.

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 required.
• 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 required and must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
• Must pass pre‑employment qualifications of Cherokee Federal.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting IHS, tribal health, federal healthcare, or other government health programs (preferred).
• Experience supporting patient‑data migration, healthcare data warehouse implementation, clinical data repositories, data conversion, or data integration (preferred).
• Knowledge of healthcare data standards and technologies relevant to the assigned workstream, such as HL7, FHIR, DICOM, ETL/ELT