ACI Federal is looking for an experienced EDI systems lead to provide technical leadership to software development teams and operations, having supported the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Information and Technology (OIT) Office of Community Care (OCC) and who is familiar with VA OIT’s product line management (PLM), software development lifecycle (SDLC) practices, and development, security, operations (DevSecOps) methodologies.


Required Skills:

• Knowledge of VA’s Office of Community Care (OCC) EDI TAS program, software architectures, databases, web-based/mobile applications, enterprise IT solutions, and IT security requirements and standards

• Prior VA OIT SDLC systems engineering experience leading activities for enterprise VA systems and improving the interoperability of VA’s IT ecosystem, in accordance with SAFe practices

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, electronics engineering or other engineering or technical discipline, or 8+ years of relevant work experience"

Preferred Skills:

• Systems engineering lead experience with OCC EDI TAS

• 5+ years of prior work experience leading and orchestrating SDLC engineering related activities using Jira, system engineering plans and procedures

• SAFe or SAFe for Government Certified

• Able to acquire a U.S. Public Trust"

"Position Responsibilities:

• Lead systems engineering efforts, using scaled agile framework (SAFe) and operating in a VA OIT DevSecOps environment to facilitate streamlined performance of VA OIT’s SDLC and delivery of IT enhancements/features

• Ensure a consistent and scalable development methodology for scrum teams across VA product lines and IT products

• Create detailed systems engineering plans in collaboration with organizational stakeholders and in compliance with VA/VA OIT policy

• Develop and execute a systems engineering approach, monitoring for opportunities to enhance overall SDLC efficiency (e.g., use of automation) and VA OIT system interoperability

• Proactively collaborate with product line managers, leads, and scrum teams to plan and execute key phases of VA OIT’s SDLC, including data validation

• Develop detailed data architectures and data maps illustrating data flows across VA product lines and IT products to enhance scrum team design/development efforts, including the standardization/normalization of VA OIT data

• Strategy development

• Systems analysis and engineering

• Cloud suitability assessment

• Solution architecture"

"• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, electronics engineering or other engineering or technical discipline, or 8+ years of relevant work experience"

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