Delivery Lead, Healthcare Payer Transformation (Remote)

Cognizant; Norfolk (VA); Remote; USD 130,000 - 153,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401(k) Plan

Paid time off (PTO)

Disability Insurance

Parental Leave

Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Delivery Manager for Healthcare Payer to lead complex payer transformation programs through platform implementations and modernization efforts. You will collaborate with product owners, stakeholders, architects, and vendor teams to deliver successful business outcomes.

The role requires 10+ years in large-scale technology delivery within healthcare payer settings, strong Agile leadership, and experience coordinating multi-vendor environments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years leading large-scale technology delivery programs in healthcare payer environments.
• Proven experience managing platform implementations, modernization, migrations or digital transformations.
• Strong experience with Agile delivery methodologies including Scrum, sprint planning, backlog management, release planning, and Jira governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of healthcare payer transformation initiatives.
• Drive Agile execution across multiple workstreams and teams.
• Establish and maintain delivery governance, sprint and release planning, dependency management and stakeholder communications.
• Manage program risks, issues, and impediments with mitigation plans.
• Coordinate integrated planning, environment readiness, and production releases with client leadership and vendors.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Healthcare payer domain

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Business/Healthcare

Tools

Jira

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Delivery Manager for Healthcare Payer to lead complex payer transformation programs through platform implementations and modernization efforts. You will collaborate with product owners, stakeholders, architects, and vendor teams to deliver successful business outcomes.

The role requires 10+ years in large-scale technology delivery within healthcare payer settings, strong Agile leadership, and experience coordinating multi-vendor environments.