Lead Health Informatics Analyst

March 7, 2026

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VHA supports and provides medical care for VA’s eligible beneficiaries through the VA health program, which includes VA Medical Centers (VAMCs) and contracted health care networks. The Office of Clinical Informatics within the Office of Health Informatics (OHI), Digital Health Office (DHO) advances the enterprise standard of care and patient experience using improved data, tools, and informatics processes organized around continuously delivering value to its customers. This is achieved through Lean-Agile delivery of clinical practice solutions that support best practice standards for clinical care. OHI is further responsible for ensuring the success of the modernized VA EHR, Oracle Health Millennium/Cerner through continuous exploration, integration, deployment and release on demand of Integrated Health Technology (IHT) solutions. These efforts aim to increase Veterans' access to care and support their active participation in their healthcare. Gritter Francona is looking for a Lead Health Informatics Analyst to help support a potential project to assist this objective. Key Responsibilities Leadership & Team Oversight • Lead and mentor a team of Health IT Informatics Analysts specializing in clinical systems and data standardization • Establish and enforce informatics standards, best practices, and quality assurance processes • Review and approve informatics artifacts to ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance with organizational and client expectations • Serve as the escalation point for complex informatics, configuration, and requirements challenges Stakeholder & Client Engagement • Act as a primary client-facing representative for Health IT informatics activities • Build and maintain strong relationships with clinicians, researchers, administrators, vendors, and technical teams • Facilitate stakeholder meetings, workshops, and working sessions to elicit and validate requirements • Translate clinical and business needs into clear, actionable functional and non-functional requirements Requirements & Analysis • Lead requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, validation, and change management activities • Develop and maintain requirements artifacts, including use cases, user stories, workflows, data dictionaries, and traceability matrices • Ensure alignment of requirements with clinical workflows, regulatory standards, and Health IT best practices • Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) planning, execution, defect triage, and resolution Informatics & Systems Expertise • Provide expert-level configuration, analysis, and support for OH and/or CPRS/VistA systems • Lead informatics activities related to the capture, standardization, and use of health and clinical data • Support systems and data used for therapeutic discovery, medical research, clinical operations, and life sciences initiatives • Ensure accurate information modeling and data governance practices across Health IT solutions Documentation & Process Improvement • Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for systems, processes, and data flows • Create standardized templates and artifacts to support repeatable, high-quality informatics delivery • Identify opportunities for process improvement and optimization within clinical informatics workflows • Bachelor's Degree in related field • 8 years of relevant experience, of which at least 6 years must be specialized in Health Informatics • Extensive experience with configuration of OH and/or CPRS/VISTA • Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision) • Retirement Plan (401k, IRA) • Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D) • Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays) • Short Term & Long Term Disability • Training & Development Apply tot his job

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