Amida Technology Solutions is seeking a Senior Program Analyst. The successful candidate will act as project coordinator and scheduler for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Payer Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) product team. This role will report to the Program Manager. The ideal candidate will be motivated by the opportunity to support public agencies, nonprofit organizations, and private companies in transforming their data into actionable insights.

What you will do:

• Lead multi-workstream coordination efforts for various technology implementation initiatives, systems integration, and technical readiness initiatives, managing cross-functional dependencies across VA business and IT teams to ensure schedule alignment and on-time delivery of program milestones
• Support Agile development cadence activities including Program Increment (PI) planning, sprint ceremonies, backlog grooming, and Jira-based workflow optimization to maintain visibility and momentum across technical workstreams
• Monitor and manage program schedules, identifying and escalating schedule risks, developing mitigation strategies, and maintaining integrated master schedules that reflect real-time status across all active workstreams
• Facilitate stakeholder coordination and communication across VA program offices, IT organizations, and external Electronic Data Interface (EDI) partners, preparing briefings, status reports, meeting minutes, and executive-level summaries to keep leadership informed of program health
• Analyze healthcare systems integration requirements and EDI workflows to identify gaps, inefficiencies, or technical readiness risks, and develop data-driven recommendations that support modernization objectives
• Maintain program governance documentation including risk registers, action item logs, decision logs, and artifact repositories in accordance with VA and federal contracting standards, ensuring audit-ready program records at all times.
• Other duties as assigned

Required Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Health Informatics, Information Systems, Business Administration, Project Management, or a closely related discipline

Required Experience:

• At least 5 years of project coordination or program analysis experience
• At least 3 years directly supporting federal healthcare programs or large-scale EDI modernization, systems integration, or technical readiness initiatives

Required Skills:

• Expertise in EDI Standards (X12) and transaction workflows
• Proven proficiency with Agile tools and frameworks (Jira, SAFe, or equivalent), and demonstrated ability to coordinate PI planning events, manage backlogs, and track sprint-level deliverables across distributed teams
• Proven ability to translate technical requirements into actionable program milestones
• Superior organizational and coordination skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Ability to obtain and maintain a VA Position of Public Trust clearance (minimum Background Investigation); active VA network access eligibility preferred
• Must be a U.S. Citizen or Green Card holder, authorized to work for any U.S. federal government contractor without sponsorship, in compliance with federal contracting requirements

Preferred:

• Master's degree, PMP/PgMP. Agile/Scrum (e.g. SAFe, CSM), or EDI-specific certification (e.g., Accredited Standards Committee X12 training)
• Previous experience working within VA or VHA

Success at Amida

Communication is the key to success at Amida. Our people are known for their can-do attitude and their ability to work effectively with both internal and client teams. We pride ourselves on having a collegial, multidisciplinary team with diverse backgrounds and experience. Our best team members pay intense attention to detail in all aspects of their work, have great initiative, are opinionated about the best ways of doing things, and align quickly to decisions. A sense of humor is an asset at Amida.

Full-time, regular employees at Amida enjoy a robust benefits package that includes a generous 401(k) match with immediate vesting, 4 weeks of PTO, paid parental leave, medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life/AD&D insurance, and short-term disability. We also offer tuition/training assistance and team building opportunities to encourage professional growth and collaboration.