Medicaid IT Project Manager - Hybrid (Columbia)

STI; Columbia (SC); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

STI in Columbia, SC seeks an experienced Medicaid Healthcare IT Project Manager to lead complex IT changes for the South Carolina Medicaid program. This hybrid, 12-month contract role combines in-office collaboration with remote work, offering exposure to MMIS projects.

You will translate business needs into IT solutions, coordinate a team of analysts, manage requirements, and ensure timely, compliant delivery across MMIS subsystems and related initiatives.

Qualifications

• 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
• Strong written and oral communications skills, including the ability to write requirements and Use Cases.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate standard operating procedures for system change efforts with a team of business analysts.
• Ensure change classification, evaluation, and prioritization occurs according to procedures associated with relevant systems.
• Provide support and guidance to business analyst team members to facilitate the requirements development and management processes.
• Serves as a liaison between the business programs community and the IT organization to provide technical solutions to meet user needs.
• Possesses expertise in the business unit(s) they support, as well as, an understanding of the IT organization’s systems and capabilities.
• Analyzes business partner's operations to understand their strengths and weaknesses to determine opportunities to automate processes and functions.
• Assists in business process redesign and documentation as needed for new technology.
• Translates high level business requirements into functional specifications for the IT organization and manages changes to such specifications. Educates the IT organization on the direction of the business.
• Negotiates agreements and commitments by facilitating communication between business unit(s) and IT from initial requirements to final implementation.
• Possesses an understanding of technological trends and uses this knowledge to bring solutions to business units supported to enhance the enterprise's competitive edge.
• Requirements development execution, including the elicitation, analysis, specification and validation.
• Documenting and analyzing agency business processes and recommending improvements.
• Documenting and analyzing data requirements and relationships.
• Participating in the requirements management processes, including change control, version control, tracking and status reporting, and traceability.
• Providing requirements interpretation and guidance to technical and test teams.
• Proactively identifying risks, issues, and action items leading to possible solutions.
• Interacting with internal and external organizations (i.e. vendors, State and Federal government agencies, State providers and beneficiaries, and other stakeholders).
• May make recommendations for buy versus build decision.
• Research business rules, requirements, and models.
• Maintain business rules, requirements, and models in a repository.
• Other project-related duties.

Skills

Government IT projects

Business analysis

Requirements elicitation

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in technical, business, or healthcare

Tools

Microsoft Office Project/Project Server

Job description

STI in Columbia, SC seeks an experienced Medicaid Healthcare IT Project Manager to lead complex IT changes for the South Carolina Medicaid program. This hybrid, 12-month contract role combines in-office collaboration with remote work, offering exposure to MMIS projects.

You will translate business needs into IT solutions, coordinate a team of analysts, manage requirements, and ensure timely, compliant delivery across MMIS subsystems and related initiatives.