Senior Enterprise IT Project Manager and Business Analyst

Cynet Systems•Columbia, SC

About The Position

The contractor will provide project management with strong business analysis capabilities to lead and support complex, multi-stakeholder technology projects from initiation through closure. The role is responsible for delivering project outcomes on time, within scope, and within budget by guiding planning, scheduling, execution, risk mitigation, and reporting, while defining and documenting requirements, assessing impacts, and ensuring solutions meet business needs. The position improves project transparency through accurate documentation, dashboards, and communication with leadership and stakeholders. The position reports to the Director of Admin IT or a designated project executive and provides regular updates through established reporting mechanisms and recurring meetings. Duties include managing project delivery and cross-functional teams; facilitating requirements and scope work sessions; supporting procurement; ensuring compliance with organizational policies, security requirements, records management standards, and governance frameworks; coordinating change management, UAT, cutover, readiness, adoption, and post-launch support; and delivering project and business analysis documentation.

Requirements

At least 7 years of project management experience with moderately to highly complex projects.
Demonstrated experience in business analysis and process redesign.
At least 5 years of experience managing IT, regulatory, compliance, or enterprise-level initiatives.
Bachelor's degree required.
Ability to work independently with limited supervision and communicate effectively with all levels of the organization.
Ability to work with diverse technical and business teams and maintain confidentiality.
Ability to work at a high volume and fast pace.

Nice To Haves

PMP, PMI-ACP, or comparable certification preferred.
Ability to manage multiple work efforts simultaneously.
Strong schedule management and resource planning skills.
Ability to identify, map, and re-engineer business processes.
Integrated Master Schedule skills.
Power BI and/or data dashboard skills.

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, subject matter experts, and organizational partners.
Facilitate work sessions to validate scope, requirements, and deliverables and maintain alignment with sponsors and stakeholders.
Identify project risks and issues and recommend and implement mitigation strategies.
Support procurement processes, including RFPs, statements of work, and vendor oversight, consistent with state and procurement standards.
Ensure compliance with organizational policies, security requirements, records management standards, and project governance frameworks.
Lead structured requirements elicitation through interviews, workshops, journey mapping, process modeling, and data analysis.
Document business, functional, and nonfunctional requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria in a clear and testable format.
Define current-state and future-state processes, workflows, and data flows, and quantify KPIs and business value.
Collaborate with architecture, security, data, and infrastructure teams to translate requirements into solution designs.
Evaluate build-versus-buy options and support the creation of diagrams, models, and integration patterns when required.
Develop change management and communication plans.
Coordinate user acceptance testing, cutover activities, readiness planning, and post-launch support.
Support adoption through metrics, user feedback, and continuous improvement loops.
Produce project deliverables, potentially including project charters, requirements documents and user stories, process diagrams and data flows, project schedules and work breakdown structures, RAID and decision logs, status reports and dashboards, communication plans, and procurement documentation.
Work independently with limited supervision, communicate effectively across organizational levels, collaborate with diverse technical and business teams, maintain confidentiality, and work at a high volume and fast pace.