Team Execution Lead, Data & Analytics

Zelis; Telangana; Hybrid; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work flexibility

Healthcare benefits

Financial wellness programs

Cultural celebrations

Job summary

Zelis is seeking a Team Execution Lead in Data & Analytics to drive delivery across multiple corporate functions. You will coordinate data pipelines, dashboards, and analytics initiatives, balancing technical delivery with business value and stakeholder alignment.

The role emphasizes Agile/hybrid delivery, collaboration with Data Product Managers, Data Engineers, and Analytics leaders, and a focus on scalable data products and measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Scrum Master, Delivery Lead, Project Manager, Program Coordinator, or related technology delivery role.
• Experience supporting data platforms, data engineering teams, analytics capabilities, or BI solutions is strongly preferred.
• Experience with Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and hybrid delivery models.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day delivery execution for Data & Analytics teams supporting assigned corporate functions.
• Coordinate dependencies across multiple data and analytics teams to ensure timely delivery of data products and dashboards.
• Facilitate planning, backlog refinement, and release-readiness discussions to improve predictability and value delivery.
• Promote AI-enabled delivery practices and continuous improvement within data delivery practices.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Agile delivery

Scrum Master

Stakeholder communication

Jira

Confluence

Education

Bachelor’s degree

MBA preferred

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

About Us

Zelis is modernizing the healthcare financial experience in the United States (U.S.) across payers, providers, and healthcare consumers. We serve more than 750 payers, including the top five national health plans, regional health plans, TPAs and millions of healthcare providers and consumers across our platform of solutions. Zelis sees across the system to identify, optimize, and solve problems holistically with technology built by healthcare experts – driving real, measurable results for clients.

At Zelis, AI is woven into the fabric of how we work. Every associate is expected - and empowered - to partner with AI to challenge the status quo, accelerate innovation, and amplify their impact. This is a place for builders with a growth mindset who act with agility, embrace change, and use modern technology to shape smarter solutions, exceptional experiences, and the future of our industry for our clients, customers, and our culture.

In the U.S., consumers, payers, and providers face significant challenges throughout the healthcare financial journey. Zelis helps streamline the process by offering solutions that improve transparency, efficiency, and communication among all parties involved. By addressing the obstacles that patients face in accessing care, navigating the intricacies of insurance claims, and the logistical challenges healthcare providers encounter with processing payments, Zelis aims to create a more seamless and effective healthcare financial system.

Zelis India plays a crucial role in this mission by supporting various initiatives that enhance the healthcare financial experience. The local team contributes to the development and implementation of innovative solutions, ensuring that technology and processes are optimized for efficiency and effectiveness. Beyond operational expertise, Zelis India cultivates a collaborative work culture, leadership development, and global exposure, creating a dynamic environment for professional growth. With hybrid work flexibility, comprehensive healthcare benefits, financial wellness programs, and cultural celebrations, we foster aholistic workplace experience. Additionally, the team plays a vital role in maintaining high standards of service delivery and contributes to Zelis’ award‑winning culture.

Why We Do What We Do

In the U.S., consumers, payers, and providers face significant challenges throughout the healthcare financial journey. Zelis helps streamline the process by offering solutions that improve transparency, efficiency, and communication among all parties involved. By addressing the obstacles that patients face in accessing care, navigating the intricacies of insurance claims, and the logistical challenges healthcare providers encounter with processing payments, Zelis aims to create a more seamless and effective healthcare financial system.

Zelis India plays a crucial role in this mission by supporting various initiatives that enhance the healthcare financial experience. The local team contributes to the development and implementation of innovative solutions, ensuring that technology and processes are optimized for efficiency and effectiveness. Beyond operational expertise, Zelis India cultivates a collaborative work culture, leadership development, and global exposure, creating a dynamic environment for professional growth. With hybrid work flexibility, comprehensive healthcare benefits, financial wellness programs, and cultural celebrations, we foster aholistic workplace experience. Additionally, the team plays a vital role in maintaining high standards of service delivery and contributes to Zelis’ award‑winning culture.

Position Overview

The Team Execution Lead, Data & Analytics is responsible for driving delivery execution across Zelis Data & Analytics teams supporting one or more corporate functions, including ZEDI, Marketing, Revenue Operations, Legal, Finance, and People & Culture.

This role is a modern evolution of the Scrum Master role, with greater emphasis on delivery accountability, continuous planning, dependency management, stakeholder alignment, and execution against committed timelines. The Team Execution Lead helps Data & Analytics teams remain focused, organized, and predictable while enabling the incremental delivery of trusted data products, analytics capabilities, and measurable business outcomes.

The role supports teams working across the Zelis data ecosystem, including the Snowflake data platform and Sigma analytics front end, as well as related data pipelines, models, integrations, dashboards, and reporting solutions. The Team Execution Lead partners closely with Data Product Managers, Data Engineering and Analytics leaders, Data Architects, Data Governance, business stakeholders, and source‑system teams to translate functional priorities into actionable delivery plans.

The Team Execution Lead is not expected to serve as the primary data architect, engineer, or analyst but must possess sufficient technical fluency to understand data solution designs, challenge assumptions, identify delivery risks, and coordinate work across complex data and business dependencies.

The ideal candidate has strong Agile and/or hybrid delivery experience, practical knowledge of modern data and analytics delivery, and the ability to build trusted partnerships across technical teams and corporate functions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day delivery execution for Data & Analytics teams supporting assigned corporate functions and enterprise priorities.
• Support continuous planning and delivery by helping teams manage intake, clarify business value, refine priorities, sequence work, and adjust plans as needs evolve.
• Partner with Data Product Managers, Data Engineering and Analytics leaders, Data Architects, Data Governance, and business stakeholders to translate roadmap priorities into actionable delivery plans.
• Facilitate delivery routines, including planning, backlog refinement, daily coordination, dependency reviews, retrospectives, stakeholder updates, demonstrations, and release‑readiness discussions.
• Maintain clear visibility into deliverables, milestones, risks, blockers, dependencies, capacity constraints, assumptions, and decisions needed.
• Drive accountability for committed work by ensuring owners, timelines, acceptance criteria, data requirements, dependencies, and next steps are clearly understood.
• Coordinate dependencies across Data Engineering, Business Intelligence, Data Governance, Security, Infrastructure, Enterprise Applications, AI and Automation, and corporate‑function teams.
• Help teams break down complex data and analytics initiatives into manageable increments that can be developed, validated, released, adopted, and measured.
• Support delivery of Snowflake‑based data products, including ingestion pipelines, integrations, transformations, data models, governed datasets, data marts, and platform enhancements.
• Support delivery of Sigma dashboards, workbooks, reports, semantic content, and self‑service analytics experiences that enable timely and informed business decisions.
• Ensure delivery plans account for source‑system readiness, data availability, business definitions, data quality, lineage, access controls, privacy, testing, validation, deployment, user adoption, and operational support.
• Identify and escalat risks related to scope, capacity, data quality, source‑system dependencies, integration complexity, technical readiness, security, governance, stakeholder availability, and timeline impacts.
• Partner with technical leaders to ensure data solutions align with architecture standards, platform patterns, security requirements, governance policies, and long‑term maintainability expectations.
• Support testing and validation by coordinating technical testing, data reconciliation, business acceptance, production readiness, release communications, and operational handoff.
• Help teams balance urgent reporting and analytics needs with sustainable engineering practices, reusable data products, governed definitions, and scalable platform standards.
• Use delivery metrics such as throughput, cycle time, aging work, blocker trends, predictability, dependency health, and delivery confidence to improve execution.
• Provide transparent communication to stakeholders regarding delivery status, risks, trade‑offs, decisions, scope changes, and timeline impacts.
• Promote team effectiveness by removing impediments, improving delivery flow, reducing unnecessary process overhead, and keeping teams focused on the highest‑value outcomes.
• Encourage responsible use of AI‑enabled delivery practices, including backlog analysis, documentation support, meeting summaries, risk identification, delivery insights, data‑quality analysis, and workflow improvement.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of ZEDI delivery practices, standards, tools, and communities of practice.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Professional Experience/Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Scrum Master, Delivery Lead, Project Manager, Program Coordinator, or related technology delivery role.
• Experience supporting data platforms, data engineering teams, analytics teams, business intelligence capabilities, reporting solutions, or data‑product organizations strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of modern data and analytics concepts, including data ingestion, transformation, integration, data modeling, semantic layers, dashboards, reporting, data quality, testing, and production readiness.
• Experience managing deliverables to timelines in a complex, cross‑functional technology environment.
• Experience with Agile, Scrum, Kanban, hybrid delivery, traditional/waterfall, and/or continuous planning and delivery models.
• Strong understanding of backlog management, dependency management, risk management, delivery planning, capacity planning, stakeholder communication, and release coordination.
• Familiarity with data‑governance concepts, including data ownership, stewardship, lineage, metadata, classification, access, privacy, retention, and quality management.
• Ability to understand data requirements, business rules, key performance indicators, calculations, source‑to‑target relationships, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience using Jira, Confluence, or similar tools to manage work, track delivery progress, document decisions, and communicate status.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non‑technical stakeholders and translate complex delivery issues into clear business terms.
• Experience supporting corporate functions such as Finance, Marketing, Revenue Operations, Legal, People & Culture, or enterprise technology is a plus.
• Experience supporting cloud data platforms; practical knowledge of Snowflake is strongly preferred.
• Experience supporting business intelligence, visualization, or self‑service analytics platforms; practical knowledge of Sigma is preferred.
• Experience working in healthcare technology, regulated environments, or enterprise shared services is a plus.
• Agile, Scrum, SAFe, PMP, or related certifications are a plus.

Leadership Requirements Include

• Strong delivery leader with a bias toward execution, accountability, transparency, and measurable outcomes.
• Servant leader who supports team effectiveness while creating structure, focus, and follow‑through.
• Comfortable leading without authority in a highly matrixed organization.
• Able to build trust with Product, Engineering, Enterprise Applications, Architecture, Security, Governance, AI/Automation, and business stakeholders.
• Strong facilitator who can drive alignment, surface risks, resolve ambiguity, and keep teams moving.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including stakeholder‑facing delivery updates.
• Strong problem‑solving skills with the ability to anticipate blockers, manage dependencies, and elevate effectively.
• Growth mindset with a commitment to continuous improvement, AI‑first ways of working, and delivery maturity.
• Ability to balance collaboration and team empowerment with the discipline required to deliver committed outcomes on time.
• Demonstrated ability to help teams improve predictability, delivery flow, stakeholder confidence, and business value realization.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience required; MBA or master’s degree preferred

Commitment to Diversity, Equity,Inclusion, and Belonging

At Zelis, we champion diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in all aspects of our operations. We embrace the power of diversity and create an environment where people can bring their authentic and best selves to work. We know that a sense of belonging is key not only to your success at Zelis, but also to your ability to bring your best each day.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Zelis is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Accessibility Support

We are dedicated to ensuring our application process is accessible to all candidates. If you are a qualified individual with a disability and require reasonable accommodation with any part of the application and/or interview process, please email [e-mail].