Remote Delivery Lead, Healthcare Payer Transformation

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Delivery Manager for Healthcare Payer to lead large-scale transformation programs from strategy through deployment. You will collaborate with Product Owners, business stakeholders, architects, QA, and vendors to deliver measurable business and technology outcomes.

You will drive Agile execution across multiple workstreams, manage delivery governance, and coordinate with client leadership to ensure successful production releases.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, Healthcare Administration, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience leading large-scale technology delivery programs, with significant experience in healthcare payer environments.
• Proven experience managing platform implementations, modernization programs, migrations, or digital transformation initiatives.
• Strong experience with Agile delivery methodologies, including Scrum, sprint planning, backlog management, release planning, and Jira governance.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and coordinate cross-functional teams across business, technology, quality engineering, conversion, and integration functions.
• Experience managing executive stakeholders, client leadership teams, vendors, and distributed delivery organizations.
• Strong understanding of healthcare payer operations, core administration platforms, claims, enrollment, benefits, provider, or related business domains.
• Proven track record of driving delivery excellence through risk management, dependency management, resource planning, and operational governance.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Agile delivery

Scrum

Jira governance

Executive stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

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 is seeking a Delivery Manager for Healthcare Payer to lead large-scale transformation programs from strategy through deployment. You will collaborate with Product Owners, business stakeholders, architects, QA, and vendors to deliver measurable business and technology outcomes.

You will drive Agile execution across multiple workstreams, manage delivery governance, and coordinate with client leadership to ensure successful production releases.