Senior Health Data Migration Engineer

About Blue Water Thinking

Guided by our principles of value generation, continuous innovation, customer-centricity, and vested collaboration, Blue Water Thinking proudly supports our Federal clients in achieving their Agency goals.

Founded by a decorated twenty-eight year Veteran of the United States Army, Blue Water Thinking understands and supports the mission of our Nation's war fighters, Veterans, their families and caretakers. 

Leveraging our executive team's military experience and private and public sector consulting expertise, Blue Water Thinking takes an integrated "one-team" approach and brings to bear best-fit solutions,  thought leadership, and grit to meet our client's transformational needs.

Fueled by our values of integrity, respect, professionalism, stewardship and customer service, the Blue Water Thinking team understands the power of the human connection, collaboration, humility and loyalty to one another, our clients and industry partners.

Lastly, our formula for success is simple:  Build something good, take care of our people, keep our clients satisfied, nurture our work ethic and reputation, build long-lasting partnerships, enjoy what we do and give back as much as possible.

Job Description:

Blue Water Thinking is seeking a Senior Operations Engineer (Data) to support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM-IO) as a Senior Health Data Migration Engineer.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assess the current EHRM data migration requirements; maintain and update the strategy to meet the requirements.
• Review error and trace logs.
• Track messages by domain and reconcile table counts with Cerner.
• Review secure data message transmission logs.
• Track the number of records sent per message by domain.
• Monitor Queue Depth by service/process/operation. Track retry attempts and suspended messages.
• Validate and update data integration reports in support of VX130 data domains.
• Review, update, and maintain Cerner to CDW, VistA, Millennium or Cloud Database data mappings for potential data migrations.
• Evaluate and integrate data from multiple sources, which requires data mapping from one data source to another minimizing any data loss.
• Document VistA Extraction and monitoring process and update existing documentation quarterly.
• Interpret Cerner’s Data model to be used for the construction of API’s, queries, and reports that will be consumed by internal or external applications.
• Review Domain adds to Ensemble Production. Validate edits made to Domain record type, schema version, status, and payload size via the GUI Interface and Rule Builder.
• Validate Ensemble data flows built using VX130 ClassBuilder. Validate the load of Cache/IRIS Objects, SQL Tables or other storage structures

Minimum Qualifications:

• 15+ years of professional work experience
• Must create strategies and plans for integration of multiple IT systems/subsystems into an operational unit, ensuring full functional and performance capabilities are retained.
• Coordinate with development and user teams to assess risks, goals and needs and ensure that all are adequately addressed.
• Must be experienced in introducing new hardware or software into a new or existing environment while minimizing disruption and mitigating risks.
• Must be cost conscience as well addressing goals.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or equivalent or an additional 8 years of experience may be substituted for degree requirements

Preferred Qualifications:

• VA experience preferred
• Experience implementing Electronic Health Records

Eligibility:

• Must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis
• Must be able to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust clearance for this role

Compensation:

Salary for this position is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the candidate’s specific combination of knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements.

Salary range: $120,000 - $135,000 

Blue Water Thinking offers a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance (medical, dental, and vision), paid time off, federal holidays, and a matching 401K plan.

Our Commitment to Equal Employment Opportunity.

Blue Water Thinking, LLC (BWT) is committed to equal employment opportunity. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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