Baseline, Standards, and Requirements Specialist

• Gather, analyze, and document requirements and standards for post-go-live governance, system enhancements, and optimization initiatives.

• Translate clinical and business stakeholder needs into actionable requirements and recommendations.

• Review project deliverables, including design specifications and test plans, to ensure alignment with business requirements.

• Support standardization and continuous improvement across the EHR environment.

• 3–5 years of experience in application support, business analysis, project coordination, or a related role within a large-scale healthcare IT environment.

• Experience with requirements analysis, IT service management principles, and software development and release lifecycles.

• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to facilitate meetings, develop clear documentation, manage competing priorities, and drive tasks through completion.

• Ability to obtain a VA Public Trust clearance.

• Bachelor's degree in Health Informatics, Information Technology, Business, or a related field.

Emerging Tech (ET) was founded to meet the emergent need for a standards-based, end-to-end IT consultancy. Our experts across the United States design and implement cutting-edge solutions that transform our customers' capabilities.

We are seeking a Baseline, Standards, & Requirements (BSR) Specialist to support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) SISS program. In this role, you will help advance standardization, governance, and sustainment initiatives for the Oracle Health (Cerner) Millennium EHR platform, supporting long-term system stability, usability, and continuous improvement.

This position is ideal for a detail-oriented healthcare IT professional with experience in business analysis, application support, or project coordination who can translate end-user needs into actionable requirements and coordinate initiatives across clinical stakeholders, technical teams, and program leadership.

• Track and manage sustainment activities, ensuring requests progress through change management and release lifecycles.

• Monitor project status, outstanding actions, dependencies, and competing priorities.

• Support governance processes for system enhancements, optimization projects, and standardization initiatives.

• Maintain clear documentation and provide updates to support effective decision-making.

• Collaborate with clinical and business end users, application support teams, project managers, and program leadership.

• Facilitate meetings, prepare agendas, document discussions, and track action items through completion.

• Provide analysis and recommendations to support leadership decisions at strategic and tactical levels.

• Coordinate across teams to ensure stakeholder needs are understood and initiatives continue progressing.

• Direct, hands-on experience with Oracle Health (Cerner) Millennium.

• Understanding of Oracle Health/Cerner architecture and capabilities.

• Existing VA access.

• Experience supporting EHR sustainment, standardization, governance, enhancements, or optimization initiatives.

• Experience working with clinical stakeholders and healthcare IT application support teams.

• Strong requirements gathering and documentation skills.

• Familiarity with IT service management and change management processes.

• Ability to coordinate multiple initiatives and track deliverables through completion.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Strong attention to detail and ability to organize competing priorities.

Emerging Tech is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.