Senior IT Healthcare Project Manager

Rate: $65/hr. on Clients W2.

Senior IT Healthcare Project Manager

The State of South Carolina

Location: Columbia, South Carolina Hybrid (3 days in office, 2 days remote) Candidate MUST be a SC resident.

Type: Contract

Length: 12+ months (possible extensions)

Interview Process: 1 round, Virtual/Online

The Senior IT Healthcare Project Manager will serve in the lead role to coordinate a team of business analysts responsible for providing detailed analysis and documenting business processes and requirements.

The principal duties of this position are to evaluate agency needs, as-is and to-be business processes, and technical designs to provide analysis and advice on strategies for information technology solutions and non-technical solutions.

Specific duties include:

Lead and coordinate system change efforts with business analysts, ensuring proper classification, evaluation, and prioritization.

• Translate high-level business requirements into actionable functional specifications; manage change control and stakeholder alignment.
• Analyze agency operations to identify automation opportunities and support business process redesign for new technologies.
• Provide requirements interpretation and guidance to technical and QA teams; ensure traceability and version control.
• Interface with vendors, government agencies, and stakeholders to align technical solutions with business needs.
• Maintain and manage business rules, requirements, and models in a centralized repository.
• Identify and escalate risks, issues, and action items, contributing to resolution strategies.
• Make strategic recommendations on buy vs. build decisions based on business and technical analysis.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• 5 years experience in government IT projects as a business analyst or related duties
• 5 years experience eliciting, mining, and documenting business rules, processes
• 5 years of Medicaid experience
• Superb written and oral communications skills, including the ability to write requirements and Use Cases.
• Experience and ability to obtain business processes and requirements information by interviewing business personnel and by mining laws, regulations, and policy documents.
• Knowledge of formal business process documentation.
• Understanding of business modeling techniques, including the use of graphical process flow software
• Ability to effectively communicate to executive management, line management, project management,

and team members.

PREFERRED SKILLS

• General Subject Matter Expertise as it relates to Medicaid or other healthcare insurance experience (project or operations)
• MMIS experience (project or operations)
• Microsoft Office Project/Project Server