Project Manager (PMP, Release Mgmt, healthcare) | TELECOMMUTE

Integrated Eligibility System Project Manager

100% Telecommute

Contract-to-hire

Hours: 8am ET to 5pm ET with a lunch break

Interview Process: 2-3 rounds via video. Focus on Project Management, release management, and SDLC skills and relevant background

Team: Cross-functional matrix team of about 40 resources

Project: Integrated Eligibility system in the Maintenance & Operations phase of the project lifecycle. Responsibilities:

• Release Planning - Ensuring that requirements are clear across dependent project streams with an effective release
• Managing risks and resolving challenges that impact release scope, quality, and schedules
• Managing relationships working on interrelated processes across teams
• Managing the development of deliverables into production environments
• Measuring and monitoring progress to achieve a timely software release within defined budgetary limits and defined quality standards
• Communicating crucial release plans and changes
• Communicating necessary release details to business teams
• Deployment management of deliverables to the test environment
• Producing deployment, implementation, and run books plans
• Initiating and overseeing the development of technical guides and training for external functionality, where applicable
• Conducting release readiness and milestone reviews
• Validating release notes Leading and coordinating checklist and deployment plan execution
• Ensuring that releases operate as per expectations

Top Requirements:

• 5+ years of IT Project Management experience
• 3+ years experience in Release Management across multiple teams
• 2+ years of experience in project management for a State Medicaid Agency or a large healthcare management organization
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification

Ideal Background:

• 5+ years of IT Project Management experience
• 3+ years of client facing experience
• 3+ years experience in Release Management across multiple teams
• 3+ years of working hands-on with all aspects of the System Development Life Cycle
• 2+ years of experience in project management for a State Medicaid Agency or a large healthcare management organization
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
• 2+ years experience with Integrated Eligibility project
• 2+ years experience with project in the M&O phase of the project lifecycle.
• 3+ years of working hands-on with all aspects of the System Development Life Cycle
• Experience facilitating Joint Application Design (JAD) session
• Experience with ServiceNow
• Knowledge of H.R.1 (Big Beautiful Bill)

Required: Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification

Preferred:

• 2+ years experience with Integrated Eligibility project
• 2+ years experience with project in the M&O phase of the project lifecycle.
• 3+ years of working hands-on with all aspects of the System Development Life Cycle
• Knowledge of H.R.1 (Big Beautiful Bill)
• Experience facilitating Joint Application Design (JAD) session
• Experience with ServiceNow
• Proficiency with MS Office (Including Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access)
• Proficiency with MS Project
• Proficiency with MS Visio

What experience will set candidates apart from one another? Client facing experience with State Medicaid agency and demonstrated ability to build collaborative client relationships, resolve/manage risks and issues, and plan/manage/deliver multiple maintenance/enhancement releases per year with 12-14 deliverables updates per release, and weekly hot fix deployments with a matrixed team of resources.