Senior IT Project Manager — Hybrid, Risk & Delivery Leader

Chandra Technologies, Inc; Columbia (SC); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Chandra Technologies, Inc. in Columbia, SC seeks an experienced Project Manager/Business Analyst to lead IT initiatives with a hybrid work model after on-site onboarding.

The role focuses on delivering projects on time, within budget, and with defined success metrics through expert planning, risk mitigation, and governance. The candidate will lead requirements elicitation, document clear specifications, coordinate cross-functional teams, and ensure solutions meet business needs.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years project management experience with moderate to high complexity.
• Demonstrated experience in business analysis and process redesign.
• Minimum 5 years experience managing IT, regulatory, compliance, or enterprise-level initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end project delivery, including scope, schedule, budget, risk, quality, communication, and resource coordination.
• Develop and maintain project plans, RAID logs, communication plans, status reports, and executive updates.
• Manage cross-functional teams including internal IT, vendors, SMEs, and agency partners.
• Facilitate work sessions to validate scope, requirements, and deliverables; maintain alignment with sponsors and stakeholders.
• Identify risks and issues; recommend and implement mitigation strategies.
• Support procurement processes as needed (RFPs, SOWs, vendor oversight) consistent with state and Admin procurement standard.
• Ensure compliance with agency policies, security requirements, records management standards, and project governance frameworks.
• Lead structured requirements elicitation including interviews, workshops, journey mapping, process modeling, and data analysis.
• Document clear, testable requirements: business, functional, nonfunctional, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Define current-state and future-state processes, workflows, and data flows; quantify KPIs and business value.
• Translate requirements into solution designs in collaboration with architecture, security, data, and infrastructure teams.
• Evaluate build-vs-buy options and support creation of diagrams, models, and integration patterns when required.
• Develop change management and communication plans.
• Coordinate UAT, cutover activities, readiness planning, and post-launch support.
• Support adoption using metrics, user feedback, and continuous improvement loops

Skills

Project management

Business analysis

IT governance & compliance

Stakeholder communication

PowerBI

Tools

PowerBI

Job description

Chandra Technologies, Inc. in Columbia, SC seeks an experienced Project Manager/Business Analyst to lead IT initiatives with a hybrid work model after on-site onboarding.

The role focuses on delivering projects on time, within budget, and with defined success metrics through expert planning, risk mitigation, and governance. The candidate will lead requirements elicitation, document clear specifications, coordinate cross-functional teams, and ensure solutions meet business needs.