Medicaid Portfolio Project Manager

Overview

We are seeking a Medicaid Portfolio Project Manager who will support our NYS client. This role will direct and oversee a portfolio of cross-functional MECM System and AMS development efforts, coordinating delivery across business, technical, security, testing, change management, and external trading partner workstreams. The PM Lead will support successful, on-time project delivery while maintaining project schedules, executive reporting, CMS status reporting, risks and issues, change requests, roadmap dependencies, and ePMO governance improvements.

Duties

• Direct and oversee multiple complex projects in a cross-functional environment, including Business Analysts, Developers, Technical Architects, Testers, Security, and Change Management professionals.
• Manage portfolio-level delivery for MECM System and AMS development efforts, including wave, release, roadmap, schedule, dependency, and critical path oversight.
• Collaborate with OHIP, Medicaid systems teams, DOS units, business users, Systems Integrator staff, and trading partners to coordinate project delivery and data exchange needs.
• Standardize project management practices, integrated project schedules, reporting processes, risks and issues management, and mitigation strategies across multiple projects.
• Produce monthly Executive Status Reports for OHIP leadership and monthly Project Status Reports for CMS, ensuring federal compliance, consistency, and accuracy.
• Review Systems Integrator project status reports and Risks and Issues Registers for accuracy, completeness, and required follow-up actions.
• Manage system change requests, including impact analysis related to scope, schedule, budget, service portfolio, release plans, and catalog updates.
• Maintain the overall program roadmap and cross-project dependencies for Wave 2, Releases 1.3 and 1.4, MSP Only, and future Waves 3 and 4.
• Serve as a first-level escalation point for matters impacting trading partners, business partners, third-party dependencies, release schedules, and project delivery milestones.
• Supervise Project Managers, assign projects, provide coaching, identify training needs, and oversee the work products of Systems Integrator staff.
• Conduct regular touchpoints across functional, testing, technical, security, privacy, and change management workstreams to support schedule alignment and issue resolution.
• Collaborate with DOS units on the establishment of a DOS ePMO by providing recommendations for governance, processes, standards, and continuous improvement.

Mandatory Qualifications

• 8+ years overall experience as a Project Manager with 2-5 years of project management experience directing complex technology or systems implementation projects.
• 2-5 years of communications experience, including development of executive-level status reports, professional presentations, and stakeholder communications.
• 2-5 years of data analysis experience supporting project planning, reporting, dependency tracking, and impact analysis.
• 2-5 years of Medicaid experience supporting programs, systems, or related stakeholder environments.
• 2-5 years of Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) experience.
• Experience overseeing cross-functional delivery teams that include business analysis, development, technical architecture, testing, security, and change management resources.
• Experience managing integrated project schedules, release schedules, roadmaps, critical path activities, risks, issues, dependencies, and mitigation strategies.
• Experience managing system change requests and performing impact analysis across scope, schedule, time, and budget.
• Ability to communicate effectively with business, technical, security, State, federal, and external trading partner stakeholders.

Desirable Qualifications

• Experience supporting New York State Department of Health, OHIP, Medicaid enterprise systems, or similar public sector health and human services programs.
• Experience with MECM, AMS, CMS reporting, federal compliance reporting, or Medicaid systems modernization initiatives.
• Experience coordinating with Systems Integrator teams and overseeing vendor or consultant work products.
• Experience supporting ePMO development, governance design, process standardization, and continuous improvement activities.
• Experience coordinating data exchanges, trading partner communications, and third-party dependencies across complex release environments.
• Strong leadership, stakeholder management, facilitation, coaching, and executive communication skills.

What We Offer

• Opportunities to lead impactful transformations in the public sector infrastructure.
• Engagement with high-profile government initiatives, supporting meaningful change.
• A collaborative environment that values ownership, initiative, and continuous learning.