Remote Delivery Lead, Healthcare Payer Transformation

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 130,000 - 153,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Paid Holidays

401(k) Plan

Disability Insurance

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation seeks a Delivery Manager for Healthcare Payer to lead complex payer transformation programs through platform implementation, modernization, migrations, and enhancements. You will collaborate with Product Owners, architects, developers, QA, vendors, and client leadership to drive successful outcomes.

The role requires 10+ years of leadership experience in healthcare payer tech delivery, strong Agile and Jira governance skills, and a track record of

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 10+ years leading large-scale technology delivery programs, especially in healthcare payer environments.
• Experience managing platform implementations, modernization programs, migrations, or digital transformation initiatives.
• Strong experience with Agile delivery methodologies, including Scrum, sprint planning, backlog management, and release planning.
• Proven ability to coordinate cross-functional teams across business, technology, QA, and vendors.
• Experience managing executive stakeholders, client leadership teams, and distributed delivery organizations.
• Deep understanding of healthcare payer operations and related domains.
• Track record driving delivery excellence via risk, dependency, resource planning, and governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of healthcare payer transformation initiatives, aligning with business objectives and client expectations.
• Drive Agile execution across multiple workstreams including analysis, configuration, development, testing, conversions, integration, and releases.
• Establish and maintain delivery governance, sprint and release planning, dependency management, and stakeholder communications for predictable outcomes.
• Manage program risks, issues, and impediments with mitigation and resolution plans.
• Coordinate with client leadership, vendors, and internal teams for integrated planning, environment readiness, and production releases.

Skills

Agile delivery

Scrum

Jira governance

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Program management

Healthcare payer domain

Vendor management

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, Healthcare Administration, or related field

Tools

Jira

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation seeks a Delivery Manager for Healthcare Payer to lead complex payer transformation programs through platform implementation, modernization, migrations, and enhancements. You will collaborate with Product Owners, architects, developers, QA, vendors, and client leadership to drive successful outcomes.

The role requires 10+ years of leadership experience in healthcare payer tech delivery, strong Agile and Jira governance skills, and a track record of