Lead VistA MUMPS Developer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Florida.

📋 Description

• Act as the technical lead and subject matter authority for VistA/MUMPS development.

• Offer technical guidance, establish development standards, conduct code reviews, and provide mentoring and knowledge transfer to the project team.

• Examine current VistA applications, routines, workflows, reports, interfaces, data structures, and technical dependencies to assess SSN usage.

• Create strategies for replacing or removing SSNs while maintaining application functionality.

• Design, modify, and enhance VistA/MUMPS applications, user interfaces, workflows, reports, audit trails, and business processes.

• Utilize secure, maintainable code that aligns with VA development standards and the established VistA architecture.

• Oversee technical activities throughout the design, development, unit and integration testing, regression testing, deployment, production readiness, troubleshooting, defect resolution, and root-cause analysis phases.

• Integrate secure coding and data-handling practices into solution design and development.

• Work in collaboration with cybersecurity, privacy, and compliance stakeholders to safeguard PII and adhere to VA, Federal, and NIST security requirements.

• Partner with Product Owners, Business Analysts, QA personnel, Government stakeholders, and engineering teams within an Agile framework.

• Assist with technical estimation, backlog decomposition, dependency identification, release planning, technical documentation, and the communication of risks and recommendations.

• Assume additional tasks and responsibilities as necessary to meet team objectives and ensure project success.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.

• Over 15 years of professional experience in VistA/MUMPS development.

• Extensive practical knowledge of VistA, MUMPS/M, InterSystems Caché, or similar M-based platforms, along with VistA data structures, file management, and complex or large-scale VistA applications, packages, or modules.

• Strong experience in analyzing existing VistA codebases, application dependencies, routines, workflows, and data structures, and developing technically sound strategies for modifying enterprise VistA functionality.

• Proven experience in application troubleshooting and debugging, secure software development, source code management, code review, testing, deployment, production support, and Agile software development methodologies.

• Exceptional analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, written, and verbal communication skills.

• Solid understanding of PII/PHI protection and secure data-handling practices.

• Demonstrated experience leading developers or acting as a technical lead in healthcare IT, VA, or other intricate enterprise environments.

• Capability to collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary technical and business teams.

• Candidate must reside within the continental United States.

• U.S. Citizenship is mandatory.

• All selected candidates must successfully undergo a background check.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Government/Public Trust clearance, including necessary fingerprinting, when required for the role.

• Experience in supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and VA VistA environments, especially in areas like ADT, PCE, AICS, Record Tracking, VistA Audit Solutions, or related VistA packages.

• Experience in supporting VA modernization, privacy, cybersecurity, or sensitive-data remediation initiatives.

• Familiarity with NIST SP 800-53, FISMA, HIPAA, and VA security and privacy requirements.

• Previous experience mentoring VistA/MUMPS developers, leading distributed development teams, and working within Agile/Scrum development environments.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage.

• 401k plan with Employer Match.

• Paid Time Off (PTO) plus Federal Holidays.

• Corporate Laptop provision.

• Opportunities for Training.

• Remote Work Opportunity.