Position Overview: 

Emerging Tech is seeking a Technical SME to support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) program. The Technical SME will provide hands-on and remote guidance during pre-deployment operations across multiple sites. This role ensures seamless system integration, resolves complex technical issues in real time, and collaborates with on-site teams to prepare for operational readiness and maintain performance standards. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Serve as the primary technical advisor during pre-deployment operations, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure systems are deployment-ready and aligned with operational objectives. 

• Identify, escalate, and resolve complex technical issues in real time, while directing systems integration to ensure compatibility with enterprise and legacy IT environments. 

• Plan, design, and oversee deployment of enterprise-wide information architectures—including hardware, software, middleware, communications, and security components—while maintaining documentation and recommending process improvements. 

• Ensure compliance with open systems architecture standards and support implementation of complex information management solutions. 

• Contribute to program and project planning, milestone development, and business case analysis, including evaluation of alternative solutions and assessment of business impacts. 

Qualifications: 

Minimum Qualifications 

• 5+ years of professional work experience. 

• Ability to travel up to 70%. 

• Experience planning, designing, and overseeing deployment of complex enterprise or large-scale information architectures. 

• Knowledge of integrating enterprise applications with legacy IT systems. 

• Experience supporting program/project planning and milestone development. 

• Skilled in business case analysis, alternative solution evaluation, and assessment of resulting business impacts. 

• Bachelor's degree in information systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field, or an additional 8 years of relevant experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience supporting VA programs. 

• Experience implementing Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems.