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Senior Program Analyst - Schedule Architect & P6 Migration Lead

Blue Water Thinking
United StatesUnited States
Full-time
$115k-$130k
Senior-Level

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Job Overview

Blue Water Thinking is seeking an experienced and dedicated Senior Program Analyst to serve as Schedule Architect and P6 Migration Lead, supporting the Integrated Healthcare Transformation (IHT) initiative at the Department of Veterans Affairs HEFP SEP program. The role involves:

  • Architecting the target Primavera P6 enterprise environment for a 1,100+ project portfolio.
  • Mapping legacy data into logic-driven schedules without loss of existing data or functionality.
  • Supporting federal program managers and field staff through the change, with adoption as a key deliverable.

Responsibilities

Migration Architecture and Data Mapping

• Assess the legacy Microsoft Project Web Access environment and produce a defensible mapping of every legacy data element to its P6 destination, including activity codes, user-defined fields, WBS levels, calendars, or planned retirement, with rationale documented and Government-approved.

• Design the enterprise architecture, including EPS hierarchy, WBS standards, activity coding dictionary, calendar library, and UDF strategy sized for portfolio-scale reporting.

• Develop standardized fragnets and schedule templates by project archetype, including telecommunications room cutovers, data center relocations, elevator modernization, AHU/chiller replacement, and roof replacement.

• Convert milestone-dominant legacy records into activities with durations and logic while preserving genuine milestones and maintaining legacy reporting during parallel operations until the Government accepts the new reporting.

• Establish and routinely report schedule health criteria, including open ends, negative lag, constraint use, out-of-sequence progress, excessive float, and missing predecessors or successors.


Master Schedule Development, Integration, and Variance Analysis

• Build and manage master schedules with full traceability of program and project milestones defined by SEP federal program managers.

• Maintain schedule baselines, control baseline changes, and preserve audit trails of schedule revisions.

• Manage schedule data across design and construction projects spanning EHRM, recapitalization, and targeted infrastructure portfolios.

• Align the EHRM NRM Capital Integrated Schedule with the EHRMIO Integrated Master Schedule and coordinate with Oracle Health and VA stakeholders.

• Coordinate with VISN and VAMC engineering staff, site engineers, design and A/E firms, and general contractors to gather schedule events and establish dependencies.

• Analyze schedule data for critical path impact, downstream program effects, and schedule variance across deployment sites.

• Identify, quantify, and escalate schedule risks and support maintenance of the SEP risk register using recognized program risk management techniques.


Coaching, Reporting, and Adoption

• Coach and mentor federal program managers, SEP lead engineers, and field staff on schedule interpretation, including critical path, float, milestone movement, and overall program impacts.

• Develop training aids, job aids, bulletins, quick-reference guides, and SOPs, and provide recurring instruction through office hours, working sessions, recorded walkthroughs, and cohort training.

• Build and maintain Power BI and SharePoint reporting views that present P6 data in accessible terms and monitor adoption to identify areas requiring additional support or design improvements.

• Produce the weekly Capital Integrated Schedule and Risk/Event Report, support Capital Schedule and Variance Reports, and develop executive reporting showing milestone status and variance in clear, non-technical language.

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Blue Water Thinking (operating at bw-thinking.com) is a business consulting and services platform engineered for government. Founded in 2017 by unknown founders and headquartered in Edgewater, Maryland, United States, Blue Water Thinking focuses on creating a new marketplace for Government that brings to bear interdisciplinary functional and technical expertise. Under the hood, the company provides strategy, management, and technology solutions tailored for government. This allows government agencies to benefit from the company's expertise and solutions.

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