Enterprise Project Manager at Columbia, SC

Overview

Need an experienced Enterprise Project Manager with strong business analysis capabilities to lead strategic and tactical IT initiatives. You will serve as the driving force behind complex, multi-stakeholder technology projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with state standards.

This is a dual-focus role requiring both disciplined project execution and sharp business analysis skills. You will manage the full project lifecycle-from initiation through closure-while ensuring that technical solutions directly address business needs.

• Project Leadership: End-to-end management of scope, schedule, budget, risk (RAID logs), quality, and cross-functional resource coordination.

• Requirements Elicitation: Lead workshops, process modeling, and data analysis to document clear, testable business, functional, and non-functional requirements.

• Strategic Alignment: Define current/future-state processes and workflows; translate these requirements into solution designs in partnership with architecture, security, and data teams.

• Change Management: Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT), cutover activities, and post-launch adoption efforts.

• Governance: Ensure full compliance with agency policies, security requirements, and state procurement standards (RFPs/SOWs).

• Stakeholder Engagement: Facilitate work sessions and provide executive-level status reports and dashboards to project sponsors.

• Project Management: Minimum 7 years of experience managing projects of moderate to high complexity.

• Enterprise
  
  Experience:
  
  Minimum 5 years of experience managing IT, regulatory, compliance, or enterprise-level initiatives.

• Business Analysis: Demonstrated success in business analysis and process redesign.

• Soft Skills: Ability to work independently in a high-volume, fast-paced environment and communicate effectively across all organizational levels.

• Certifications: PMP, PMI-ACP, or comparable project management certifications.

• Multitasking: Proven ability to simultaneously manage multiple work efforts.

• Process Engineering: Expert-level skills in identifying, mapping, and re-engineering complex business processes.

• Planning: Strong background in schedule management and detailed resource planning.

Successful candidates will be responsible for producing high-quality artifacts, including:

• Project Charters and Work Breakdown Structures (WBS).

• User Stories, Requirements Documents, and Process/Data Flow diagrams.

• RAID and Decision Logs.

• Procurement and communication plans.