Technical Project Manager

About the role

LTS is seeking a Technical Project Manager to lead AI-powered modernization initiatives within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health portfolio. The role involves overseeing complex AI and modern engineering projects, coordinating cross-functional teams, and ensuring successful delivery of modernization initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage AI IT modernization projects supporting VA healthcare and enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams including AI/ML engineers, legacy system specialists, DevSecOps practitioners, agile delivery teams, and cybersecurity professionals.
• Develop and manage integrated program plans, schedules, resource allocations, risks, and deliverables.
• Facilitate Agile sprint execution across multiple concurrent scrum teams.
• Track project progress, milestones, dependencies, sprint velocity, and budget considerations.
• 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.
• Operate within VA’s Veterans-focused Integration Process (VIP) framework, aligning sprint delivery, artifact production, and approval sequencing to VIP phase gates.
• 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.
• Ensure compliance with VA, federal, and organizational governance, reporting, and documentation requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on delivery excellence, AI output quality, team collaboration, and establishing reusable modernization patterns.
• Coordinate ATO and FedRAMP planning activities.
• Support change management, process improvement, and operational transition activities.
• Develop and maintain project documentation.
• Lead SMEs, validate technical approaches and deliverables, and ensure the integrity, quality, and alignment of all outputs with customer objectives.

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.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, Scrum practices, and hybrid project delivery models.
• Fluency with AI/ML project lifecycles, model development, prompt engineering pipelines, LLM-based applications, and AI platform integration into agile delivery workflows.
• 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 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.

Qualifications

• Consideration will be given to experience within healthcare environments.
• Prior experience supporting healthcare IT operations or clinical systems environments preferred.

Skills

• Strong understanding of AI/ML project lifecycles, model development, prompt engineering pipelines, LLM-based applications, and AI platform integration into agile delivery workflows.
• Experience with VA VistA architecture, clinical and administrative workflows, MUMPS/FileMan-based development, system integration patterns, and VistA modernization efforts within agile delivery environments.
• 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 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.
• Experience with project management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package.

Pay

Salary Range: $175K - $215K

Schedule

Remote

Equal Opportunity Employer

LTS is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.