Domain & Release Manager; REMOTE

Koniag IT Systems, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company, is seeking a Domain & Release Manager to support KITS and our government customer. The position is remote.

We offer competitive compensation and an extraordinary benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401K with company matching, flexible spending accounts, paid holidays, three weeks paid time off, and more.

The Domain & Release Manager and Systems Engineer I is responsible for providing technical support and recommendations on annual, quarterly, and Ad Hoc Production Releases and release operational support strategies. The Domain & Release Manager will support Engineering staff in activities to author and maintain standard operating processes to maintain complex health care information systems essential to the functioning of IHS.

The Domain & Release Manager will support Engineering staff to diagnose and resolve technical issues quickly, efficiently, and ensures that systems operate at optimal performance levels before and after scheduled Releases.

• Review and coordination of deployment and engineering artifacts. Provide recommendations.
• Review configuration and technical management processes for consistency with recognized industry practice and IHS requirements.

• Architecture control
• Employ industry best practices and guidelines to manage and produce architectural artifacts. Leverage existing IHS architecture artifacts where possible.
• Help maintain and extend the IHS Health IT Modernization Enterprise Architecture.
• Interfaces
• Review custom EHR interfaces proposed by IHS vendors. Assure industry standards-based interfaces are leveraged.
• Review and evaluate EHR vendor libraries. Assure interfaces use common standard ontologies, data formats, and data models so that data is interoperable across IHS programs and with other external systems.
• Review interfaces requested by functional and business SMEs/councils to assure they adhere to the IHS program governance process. Support the Interface Working group and their analysis of newly proposed EHR system interfaces.
• Data Management
• Contribute to the Health IT Modernization Data Management Strategy and IHS program requirements, as required, for creating, managing, and delivering data across the Program and with external partners.
• Systems engineering technical reviews (SETRs)
• Participate in SETRs milestone reviews such as Preliminary Design Review (PDR) and Critical Design Review (CDR). Other reviews include IDR/FRR initial design review and final design review, IPR/Preliminary TRR In-Process Review/Preliminary Test Readiness Review, FDR/TRR Final Design Review/Test Readiness Review, IPR/Preliminary OTRR In-Process Review/Preliminary Operational Test Readiness Review, and ORR Operational Readiness Review.
• Participate in enterprise performance life cycle reviews as needed for requirements analysis, system design, system development, and testing.
• Participate in enterprise reviews for EHR system interoperability with focus on the Health Information Exchange Gateway.
• Participate in reviews of infrastructure upgrades to support new system implementations and cybersecurity services.

• Have experience with systems engineering technical management processes such as technical planning, requirements management, configuration management, technical assessment, decision analysis, technical risk management, interface management, and data management.
• Have a working knowledge and familiarity with system engineering tools such as Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian Jira, HP ALM, and MS Project.
• Engineering systems also include the MITRE Partner Network and the IBM Jazz Rational System Architect suite of products.
• Have familiarity with other system engineering tools used in areas such as performance and capacity testing, change management for code repositories, test instrumentation and monitoring, security scanning, system emulation, system/application monitoring, user monitoring/application response measurement, availability measurement, and continuous monitoring.

• The ideal candidate has experience working with Healthcare Systems Engineering and/or Health Information Management in the federal government.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills
• Ability to present technical details to a non-technical audience (briefing).
• Ability to facilitate reoccurring technical/non-technical meetings and working groups.
• Have a technical background in implementing systems and tools. Microsoft Azure related systems, tools, and services are preferred.
• Have experience performing system upgrades, managing backup and recovery, server monitoring and capacity planning, conducting version management, etc.
• Have familiarity developing and reviewing system security standards.
• BS in Computer Science or Information Systems related field.
• 5+ minimum years’ leading projects that include software development and/or operations systems…