Senior Information Manager

Position Summary

The Senior Information Manager owns the governance, quality, and compliant flow of information and clinical data across the MEDXS/MEDEX enterprise. This position bridges the technical infrastructure and the mission use of the data: it manages data architecture and standards, validates the integrity and completeness of clinical and executive health data moving between theater nodes and enterprise reporting, and ensures every data flow satisfies HIPAA, Privacy Act, and DoD information management and records requirements.

The role also serves as the principal producer of executive information products derived from MEDXS/MEDEX data for Defense Health Headquarters leadership. Primary duty station is the Defense Health Headquarters (DHHQ), Falls Church, Virginia. On-site presence is required; telework is by Government approval only and is not guaranteed.

• Manage the end-to-end flow of clinical and executive health information through MEDXS/MEDEX, from theater and Military Treatment Facility source systems through enterprise aggregation to executive reporting and analytic consumers.
• Establish and enforce data governance: data standards, authoritative data source designation, data dictionaries, metadata catalogs, business rules, data stewardship assignments, and data quality thresholds.
• Design, execute, and report on data quality management: completeness, accuracy, timeliness, consistency, and validity monitoring; identify anomalies and drive root cause correction with engineering and functional owners.
• Serve as the HIPAA and privacy compliance authority for data flows, ensuring protected health information and personally identifiable information are handled under the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, the Privacy Act, DoD 6025.18, DoD 8580.02, and applicable Defense Health Agency policy.
• Perform and maintain privacy and security documentation for data handling, including data flow diagrams, minimum necessary determinations, Privacy Impact Assessments, data sharing and data use agreement support, and breach and spillage response documentation.
• Manage information lifecycle and records management: retention and disposition schedules, archival, legal hold support, and compliant destruction in accordance with DoD and National Archives requirements.
• Define and manage interface and data exchange requirements with external systems, including message and file specifications, transformation rules, validation logic, reconciliation controls, and exception handling.
• Develop, produce, and maintain recurring and ad hoc executive information products: dashboards, scorecards, metrics packages, and analytic summaries for Defense Health Headquarters and combatant command stakeholders.
• Translate Government functional and reporting requirements into documented technical data requirements for the engineering and database teams, and validate delivered capability against those requirements.
• Manage access governance for data assets: role definition, least-privilege access review and recertification, segregation of duties, and audit of data access and extract activity.
• Support RMF and audit activity by producing evidence for data-related controls, including access control, audit and accountability, media protection, and system and information integrity controls.
• Conduct information management training and outreach for Government users and contractor staff on data standards, privacy handling, reporting tools, and proper use of authoritative data.
• Maintain the information management documentation baseline, including the data management plan, data dictionaries, reporting catalogs, and standard operating procedures.
• Coordinate with the Database Engineer, Lead Engineer, and Government functional leads on schema changes, migration impacts, and reporting continuity during system changes.

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution.
• Minimum six (6) years of information technology data or information management experience.
• A relevant data management or database administration certification (for example, DAMA CDMP, Microsoft Data Engineer or Data Analyst, or an equivalent recognized credential), current and in good standing.
• Experience managing clinical data flow and HIPAA compliance in DoD environments.
• Ability to obtain and maintain the required security clearance and IT-level designation.

• Prior information management experience within the Military Health System, Defense…