Enterprise Project Manager
Novalink Solutions LLC
Cayce, SC
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JOB DETAILS
LOCATION
Cayce, SC
POSTED
7 days ago
The South Carolina Department of Public Health is dedicated to helping people live healthy
lives in healthy communities. With more than 2,250 employees in 78 offices across the state,
S.C. DPH has a diverse team of employees who are leaders in their fields and share a passion
for making a difference. This position is associated with efforts to modernize supporting
systems and environments associated with Finance and Operations (FAO) and a focus on
Human Resources (HR) supported by the Office of Information Technology (OIT).
The OIT supports various critical programs and systems. The Enterprise Program Manager will be
responsible for managing the daily activities of a small team to assist with modification and
modernization efforts associated with impacted Financial and Administrative systems due to the
agency split as well as agency future state as DPH.
Emphasis will be placed on supporting and enhancing solutions to meet customer business needs and
problem resolution in a team environment. This position will also work with program area staff to
assist with support needs, problem resolutions, reporting, enhancement needs, integration,
dashboards and package deployments following IT security policies and standards.
Candidates should be self-motivated, team-oriented, work under limited supervision, and respond to
priority tasks as needed. Candidates must also be able to form productive working relationships with
individuals from diverse backgrounds and at all organizational levels.
Why is this position open (new role, increased workload, new dept, resignation, promotion)?
If backfill Position – What separated the candidate, you initially selected from all the other
resumes presented?
Rebid
Scope of the project:
Due to the volume of agency financial and administrative systems that need to be migrated to agency
standard platforms, upgrade and streamline upgrade aged components, and modernization efforts,
additional staff is needed to support these efforts and system implementation. The team will work to
align business needs with current and future state to ensure systems are set up and supported
following industry best practices to ensure strategic initiatives and compliance with federal and state
regulatory laws and ensure business continuity.
As Team Lead, will work to align technical solutions with current and future business needs, ensuring
that system architectures, codebases, and deployment pipelines follow industry best practices. This
role is essential to support strategic modernization initiatives, maintaining compliance with federal and
state regulatory requirements, and ensuring ongoing business continuity for critical agency systems
Candidates should be self-motivated, team-oriented, work under limited supervision, and respond to
priority tasks as needed.
Position: Enterprise Project Manager -
Executive
Open to visa transfer? Yes X No
Start Date:
4/24/2026 or sooner
Duration:
12 months
Possibility of
Extension?
Yes
Bill Rate: not to exceed
$150.00
Public Sector/Gov’t
Experience Required?
Yes
REMOTE WORK POSSIBILITY
YES OR NO?
Yes, 25% Remote
Pre-employment Checks (drug, credit, criminal, motor vehicle)?
Credit-7 year history; Criminal background check- 7 year history; E-Verify, Confidentiality
Agreement, Business Associate Agreement, Drug Free Workplace Affidavit
Daily Duties / Responsibilities:
The Executive Enterprise Program Manager will provide senior-level leadership, strategic
recommendations, and cross-functional coordination across enterprise modernization initiatives.
Serving as an executive advisor, this position delivers analysis, evaluations, and recommendations to IT
Leadership while ensuring that all final decisions remain with the appropriate departmental authority.
Emphasis for the Executive Enterprise Program Manager will include managing the daily activities of
the team responsible for modernizing existing Financial and Administrative systems and developing
new systems to replace manual processes. This includes oversight of modernization efforts, new
system development, enhancements, defects, and bug fixes. The role also assists in aligning business
needs, modernization priorities, and IT strategic direction while maintaining strong coordination with
Business Analysts, technical teams, business owners, and IT leadership.
Specific duties and responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following:
• Work with IT Leadership, Finance and Operations (FAO), and Human Resources (HR) to
confirm priorities, make adjustments as needed, identify gaps, assist with developing and
maintaining roadmap
• Provide executive leadership in planning, prioritizing, and coordinating modernization
initiatives across Finance, Operations, and enterprise applications.
• Work closely with IT Leadership to evaluate modernization options and provide
recommendations related to technology adoption, application governance, enterprise
architecture, and coding frameworks, ensuring final decisions remain with departmental
leadership.
• Lead executive-level program management activities including milestone planning, risk
mitigation, resource alignment, and cross-team coordination.
Guide Business Analysts in gathering, refining, prioritizing, and documenting business
requirements; ensure requirements flow effectively into the DevOps lifecycle.
• Oversee technical requirement development and ensure architectural decisions, work
breakdown structures, and solution designs align with business objectives and modernization
goals.
• Govern the integration of business and technical requirements into Microsoft DevOps,
ensuring traceability, consistency, and alignment with enterprise standards.
• Provide senior-level advisory support for adoption and implementation of modern
frameworks, including Angular and Power Platform, ensuring recommendations align with
business strategy, security standards, and long-term sustainability.
• Lead assessments to identify system gaps, modernization needs, interdependencies, and
opportunities for architectural improvement across multiple platforms.
• Ensure compliance with State Security policies, industry best practices, and IT standards,
including NIST 800-53, FISMA, and SC InfoSec requirements.
• Conduct structured leadership check-ins, team performance oversight, and coaching for PM,
BA, and technical leads.
• Facilitate weekly operational or modernization review meetings with project leadership and
support teams.
• Represent the program in cross-agency working groups, vendor engagements, architecture
reviews, and strategic planning sessions
• Provide executive dashboards, performance metrics, risk summaries, and program health
updates to agency senior leadership.
• Ensure documentation (system documentation, architectural models, training materials) is
created, updated, and maintained to enterprise standards.
• Support the conceptualization and evaluation of enterprise solutions, ensuring alignment with
future-state architecture and agency business strategy.
• Oversee Change Management compliance and ensure all modernization efforts follow
established policies for system production changes.
• Maintain a collaborative, governance-focused approach to all modernization tasks, ensuring
transparency, accountability, and clear communication with IT Leadership.
• Assist with development of policies and procedures to conform and comply with agency
standard cyber security policy design related to information risk management, designation of
data as to criticality, confidentiality, and protection. (NIST 800-53, FISMA, SC InfoSec
etc.)
The position will be utilized for 40 hours per week for the duration of this project. The selected
candidate should be able to work flexible hours where it may be necessary for work to be completed
outside traditional business hours.
The candidate will work closely with the Assigned IT Leadership Manager to identify, prioritize, and
schedule workload and implementation to IT standards and procedures. The candidate will work
closely with customers and subject matter experts for the system design and testing in Finance and
Operations.
This will also include compliance to DPH security policy/procedures as well as integrating systems when
possible to streamline staff workflows, user security, and data correction.
Module support of the project.
• DPH will require that selected personnel sign the DPH confidentially agreement and/or
Business Associate (BA) agreement if applicable. All web services must be secure.
• DPH will not accept any offers including an “up-lift” charge. The rate paid per consultant must
not exceed the maximum rate established for this position described in the State contract
terms.
• Follow agency IT Standards, policies, and procedures to include documentation.
• All source code (compiled and un-compiled) will become the sole property of the South
Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. Any source code, data, product, or
functionality resulting from this SOW or previously owned/developed by DPH will remain the
sole property of DPH and is not to be incorporated into the core product of any vendor's
application. Any modifications and interfaces developed under said contract will be not be
used by the contractor for any independent project of the contractor or published or
publicized by the contractor without written permission of DPH.
• DPH has the final say on all programming choices.
Payment Schedule:
All timesheets shall be entered and approved in a timely manner per State contract terms. The State
will not pay any extra costs (i.e. Travel, employee benefits, insurance, room and board, etc.) for
temporary employees under this contract.
DPH Support:
DPH will provide:
• All required information including formulas, data, and mechanisms to check output.
• Staff to assist with any application or data questions.
• Conference rooms and scheduling for any application demos.
• Workstation and required software.
Required Skills (rank in order of
Importance):
1. 5+ years of experience leading
large-scale IT modernization or upgrade
initiatives, including multi-system
integrations, application migrations, and
enterprise platform transitions.
2. 5+ years of experience directing
cross-functional technical teams through
complex project lifecycles involving BA,
development, architecture, and
operations groups.
3. 5+ years of experience working in
DevOps environments, including user
story management, backlog refinement,
CI/CD processes, and enterprise delivery
pipeline support.
4. 5+ years of experience using modern
development frameworks such as
Angular or similar front-end technologies
for enterprise application modernization.
5. 2+ years of experience with Microsoft
365 Power Platform solutions, including
workflow automation, data integration,
and low-code/no-code components.
6. 5+ years of experience performing
current-state and future-state
assessments, leading fit-gap analysis, and
Preferred Skills (rank in order of Importance):
1. Experience with MS Office 365,
SharePoint, Teams
2. Experience with security and data
classification related to CDC, HIPAA,
and CJIS
3. PMP certification
translating business needs into technical
direction.
7. 5+ years of experience supporting or
leading Financial and Administrative
application modernization, including
enhancements, defect remediation, and
stabilization.
8. 5+ years of experience developing
strategic recommendations for
technology adoption, architecture
alignment, and application governance to
support leadership decisions.
9. 5+ years of experience ensuring
compliance with cybersecurity, data
governance, and change management
standards in enterprise or government
environments.
Additional Skills
1. Ability to establish positive working relationships with technical staff, customers and others
involved in data-centric management.
Required Education: Bachelor's or Master's
Degree in a relevant field of work or
equivalent work experience.
Required Certifications:
None. Desired, PMP Certification.
Interview Process (who will conduct i/v,
phone or in-person, how many rounds of
i/v’s)?
An interview panel will conduct one initial
round of in person, video, or phone
conference interviews. If no candidate is
selected a second round of interviews will be
conducted. Potential candidates, not initially
selected, will not be disqualified until an offer
is made and accepted.
Schedule Interview: How soon can you
schedule an interview (date / times)?
After the closing date the top candidates will
be notified
Requirements
Required Skills
Skill Type
Skill Name
- Certification
- Education
- License
- Other
- Skill
5+ years of experience leading large-scale IT modernization or upgrade initiatives, including multi-system integrations, application migrations, and enterprise platform transitions.
- Certification
- Education
- License
- Other
- Skill
5+ years of experience directing cross-functional technical teams through complex project lifecycles involving BA, development, architecture, and operations groups.
- Certification
- Education
- License
- Other
- Skill
5+ years of experience working in DevOps environments, including user story management, backlog refinement, CI/CD processes, and enterprise delivery pipeline support.
- Certification
- Education
- License
- Other
- Skill
5+ years of experience using modern development frameworks such as Angular or similar front-end technologies for enterprise application modernization.
- Certification
- Education
- License
- Other
- Skill
2+ years of experience with Microsoft 365 Power Platform solutions, including workflow automation, data integration, and low-code/no-code components.
- Certification
- Education
- License
- Other
- Skill
5+ years of experience performing current-state and future-state assessments, leading fit-gap analysis, and translating business needs into technical direction.
- Certification
- Education
- License
- Other
- Skill
5+ years of experience supporting or leading Financial and Administrative application modernization, including enhancements, defect remediation, and stabilization.
- Certification
- Education
- License
- Other
- Skill
5+ years of experience developing strategic recommendations for technology adoption, architecture alignment, and application governance to support leadership decisions.
- Certification
- Education
- License
- Other
- Skill
5+ years of experience ensuring compliance with cybersecurity, data governance, and change management standards in enterprise or government environments.
Preferred Skills
Skill Type
Skill Name
- Certification
- Education
- License
- Other
- Skill
Experience with MS Office 365, SharePoint, and Teams
- Certification
- Education
- License
- Other
- Skill
Experience with Security and Data Classification related to CDC, HIPAA, and CJIS
- Certification
- Education
- License
- Other
- Skill
PMP Certification
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