Risk and Compliance Contractor Lead

Job Title: Information Technology (IT) Risk and Compliance Contractor Lead

Duration: Long Term Contract

Location: 100% Remote

Required Education Level: Bachelors in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field.

Required Experience (Years): 5

Substitution Criteria: 8 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education

Job Description

The purpose of this position is to support intra-agency/inter-agency technology compliance and risk management processes to ensure the VA EHRM program meeting requirements for cross technological platform compatibility and usability.

This includes, but is not limited to:

Coordinate with stakeholders, projects, workgroups to identify and track interdependencies among EHRM IT products.

Identify and analyze new or change of IT requirements in new Federal laws and regulations impacting the VA EHRM program.

Assess risk of non-compliance to new IT requirements; develop and propose risk mitigation strategies for EHRM IT systems, platforms and dependent applications.

Identify IT compliance risk; develop, propose, and follow-through risk mitigation strategies in all phases of the system development lifecycle.

Identify and analyze EHRM-related Intra- and Inter-agency policies, procedures, and agreements that need to be updated or rewritten to conform with new legislations.

Develop executive level presentations, course of action (COA) materials for client decisions, and present/facilitate technical discussions with multiple stakeholder groups.

Support the implementation and management of the EHRM enterprise privacy auditing application and the EHRM process for reporting and notification of patient data breach incidents.

Track project level deliverables such as schedules, artifacts, reports, and metrics and provide them to leadership.

Provide technical cybersecurity and privacy compliance advisory to mitigate compliance risk in response to new legislation requirements.

Work independently and solve technical issues under general direction, including taking meeting notes and facilitating actions of mentored personnel.

Minimum qualifications:

5+ years of professional work experience

Plans, designs, and oversees deployment of complex enterprise-wide or large scale information architectures including computer hardware and software, operating systems, middleware, communications hardware and software, and security components.

Ensures these systems are compatible and in compliance with the standards for open systems architectures as they apply to the implementation and specification of complex information management solutions.

Identifies necessary interfaces between enterprise solution applications and legacy IT environments.

Supports all program/project planning and milestone development.

Supports business case analysis and identification of alternative solutions and resulting business impacts.

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Business or related field is required, or an additional 8 years of experience may be substituted for degree requirements

Preferred qualifications:

Experience in the VA

Experience implementing electronic health records

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