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Medicaid Project Manager

Software People, Inc.
Columbia, SC Contractor
POSTED ON 7/17/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 8/16/2026

Phone/Skype Hire. Onsite from day 1

Location: Columbia, SC

Duration: 12 months

Responsibilities

  • Oversee, coordinate, and perform operations and support activities for MMIS, Encounter Processing System, and other supporting systems. To include communication and coordination with vendors, Office of Cyber Security, Enterprise Architecture, etc.
  • Maintains an effective organizational team and motivates diverse staff to accomplish mission critical operations and objectives. These teams provide production support, helpdesk, interface/EDI support, and stakeholder monitoring and
  • Oversee incident and issue management. Ensures documentation, tracking, escalation and resolution for all ticket types. Ensures timely resolution of production issues.
  • Identifies and mitigates operational issues and ensures decisions and actions are well-documented.
  • Handles internal and external escalations and requests and ensures they are satisfactorily resolved, communicating issues and outcomes

Skills Need

Bachelor's degree in a technical, business, or healthcare field. 5 years of equivalent experience in business/systems analysis and/or computer systems development/modification may be substituted.

5 years of prior experience managing system operations and or administrative program functions for claims and/or encounter processing in healthcare environment.

5 years of experience in project management managing system implementations or enhancements.

3 years of experience manage external vendors who provide system development.

Ability to provide incident management on call and after hours

Prior experience managing operations of Medicaid Enterprise systems.

Ability to make presentations and prepare reports.

Knowledge of Medicaid eligibility, enrollment, and MMIS domain concepts

Experience with ticketing software

Experience with writing standard operating procedures for new system implementations.

AWS Cloud Certifications

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