Remote Delivery Lead Healthcare Payer Transformation

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays and PTO

401(k) plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Delivery Manager for Healthcare Payer to lead large-scale transformation programs, including platform implementations, modernization, migrations, and enhancements. You will collaborate with Product Owners, architects, business analysts, and client leadership to ensure successful business and technology outcomes.

The role emphasizes end-to-end delivery, Agile execution, governance, risk management, and cross-functional collaboration across multiple workstreams and

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 healthcare payer experience.
• 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 domains.

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, conversion, integration, and releases.
• Establish and maintain delivery governance, sprint planning, release planning, dependency management, and stakeholder communications.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Education

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

Tools

Jira

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Delivery Manager for Healthcare Payer to lead large-scale transformation programs, including platform implementations, modernization, migrations, and enhancements. You will collaborate with Product Owners, architects, business analysts, and client leadership to ensure successful business and technology outcomes.

The role emphasizes end-to-end delivery, Agile execution, governance, risk management, and cross-functional collaboration across multiple workstreams and