Develop and review defect resolution plans, including remediation approach, code/data impacts, testing strategy, release considerations, and rollback planning. Support Tier 2 and Tier 3 production support, including incident prioritization, escalation, workaround identification, and resolution planning.
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Location
Washington, DC (Remote)
Description
VistA/MUMPS Subject Matter Expert
Location: Washington, DC (Remote)
Duration: 4 months
Key Responsibilities:
Provide expert guidance on VistA and MUMPS-based application sustainment.
Analyze, triage, and resolve VistA defects, incidents, service requests, and production issues.
Perform root cause analysis across code, data, configuration, workflow, interface, and environment-related issues.
Support Tier 2 and Tier 3 production support, including incident prioritization, escalation, workaround identification, and resolution planning.
Develop and review defect resolution plans, including remediation approach, code/data impacts, testing strategy, release considerations, and rollback planning.
Support testing, validation, release readiness, deployment planning, documentation updates, and post-release monitoring.
Collaborate with developers, testers, product owners, release managers, operations teams, and government stakeholders.
Recommend improvements to sustainment processes, defect prevention, monitoring, backlog management, and knowledge transfer.
Required Qualifications:
Significant hands-on experience with VistA sustainment, operations, maintenance, or modernization.
Strong knowledge of MUMPS programming and VistA technical architecture.
Experience with VistA routines, globals, FileMan, data dictionaries, cross-references, and package dependencies.
Proven ability to diagnose and resolve production defects in legacy or mission-critical systems.
Experience with Tier 2/Tier 3 support, ticket triage, defect management, and structured software delivery processes.
Ability to communicate complex technical issues clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.