Lead VistA MUMPS Developer

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

📋 Description

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

• Offer technical guidance, establish development standards, conduct code reviews, provide mentorship, and facilitate knowledge transfer.

• Evaluate VistA applications, routines, workflows, reports, interfaces, data structures, and dependencies to determine SSN usage.

• Create strategies to replace or eliminate SSNs while maintaining application functionality.

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

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

• Implement secure coding and data-handling practices to safeguard PII and comply with VA, Federal, and NIST requirements.

• Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, QA staff, Government stakeholders, cybersecurity and privacy teams, and engineering teams within an Agile framework.

• Assist with technical estimation, backlog decomposition, dependency identification, release planning, technical documentation, and risk communication.

• Support various VistA packages, including ADT, PCE, AICS, Record Tracking, and VistA Audit Solutions.

• Assume additional responsibilities and tasks as necessary to achieve team goals.

⛳️ Requirements

• 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 hands-on experience with VistA, MUMPS/M, InterSystems Caché or similar M-based platforms, VistA data structures, file management, and complex or large-scale VistA applications, packages, or modules.

• Strong background in analyzing existing VistA codebases, application dependencies, routines, workflows, and data structures, and developing methods to modify enterprise VistA functionality.

• Proficient 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.

• Experience leading developers or acting as a technical lead within healthcare IT, VA, or other complex enterprise settings.

• Capability to collaborate across multidisciplinary technical and business teams.

• Experience supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs and VA VistA environments, particularly ADT, PCE, AICS, Record Tracking, VistA Audit Solutions, or related VistA packages.

• Familiarity with VA modernization, privacy, cybersecurity, or sensitive-data remediation initiatives.

• Knowledge of NIST SP 800-53, FISMA, HIPAA, and VA security and privacy standards.

• Experience mentoring VistA/MUMPS developers, leading distributed development teams, and working in Agile/Scrum development settings.

• U.S. Citizenship is required.

• All chosen candidates must successfully complete a background check.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Government/Public Trust clearance, including necessary fingerprinting, when needed.

• Candidates must reside within the continental United States.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage.

• 401k plan with Employer Match.

• Paid Time Off (PTO) plus Federal Holidays.

• Corporate Laptop provided.

• Opportunities for training and professional development.

• Remote work opportunity available.