Business Architecture Program Manager - Gritter Francona, Inc.

Job Description:

Gritter Francona, Inc. seeks a Business Architecture Program Manager to support the Director's Office within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Office of Health Informatics (OHI), as part of the Strategic Investment Management (SIM) office. The Program Manager will play a critical role in aligning VHA's healthcare business architecture with its IT needs, ensuring that the enterprise's strategic priorities are supported by robust, scalable, and efficient business processes and IT infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and management of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) business architecture, structuring VHA's healthcare operations and business processes to align with the organization's strategic goals​​.

• Manage business process architecture by utilizingbusiness process modeling techniques to capture and communicate VHA's clinical and administrative activities. This includes creating current state and future state process models that identify improvement opportunities and support organizational change​​.

• Oversee the development and integration of information architecture, ensuring that information modeling captures VHA's data needs and supports interoperability across clinical and administrative systems​​.

• Coordinate the creation and maintenance of VHA Capability Architecture, ensuring that business processes, information models, and business requirements are categorized and aligned with the organization's healthcare and IT services​.

• Oversee and manage the VHA Business Architecture Repository (BAR), ensuring that business process models, information models, and architectural data are accessible for analysis, decision-making, and modernization efforts​.

• Collaborate closely with the Business Information and Knowledge (BIK) and Business Process and Value (BPV) units to ensure that process and information models are integrated into the broader business architecture framework​​.

• Partner with the Requirements Development and Management (RDM) team to ensure business and clinical requirements are properly captured, documented, and traceable across the lifecycle​​.

• Provide strategic guidance on the alignment of IT and business architecture, ensuring that IT funding and resources are allocated based on well-defined business requirements​​.

• Support the Multi-Year Programming (MYP) process by guiding the submission and prioritization of business and IT needs, ensuring alignment with VHA's strategic goals​.

Key Competencies:

• Expertise in business process architecture, including process modeling, process analysis, and re-engineering, with a focus on improving operational efficiency and effectiveness​.

• Proficiency in information architecture, including information modeling, to support data management, standardization, and interoperability across VHA's healthcare systems​.

• Experience leading cross-functional teams to ensure alignment between business processes, information needs, and IT solutions​​.

• Ability to manage enterprise architecture repositories, ensuring that business and information models are integrated, up-to-date, and accessible for decision-making​.

• Strong leadership skills in coordinating business and IT efforts, ensuring strategic alignment and business outcomes​​.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, or a related field.

• PMP or TOGAF certification is highly preferred.

• Minimum of 7-10 years of experience in program management, specifically within business architecture or healthcare IT domains.

• Experience with business process modeling (BPMN) and information modeling methodologies.

• Familiarity with VHA or similar healthcare organizations is strongly preferred​​.

• Proficiency in project management tools and techniques, with a proven track record of successful project delivery.

• Strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills, with an ability to effectively manage complex stakeholder relationships.