Remote Delivery Leader - Healthcare Payer Transformation

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation

Denver (CO)

Remote

USD 130,000 - 153,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Disability insurance

Paid parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Delivery Manager for Healthcare Payer to lead complex payer transformation programs, coordinating with product owners, business stakeholders, architects, and delivery teams.

You will drive Agile delivery across multiple workstreams, manage risks, and ensure governance, environment readiness, and successful production releases, while maintaining a strong focus on client value and program outcomes.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in IT, CS, business, or healthcare admin.
10+ years leading large-scale technology delivery programs in healthcare payer.
Experience managing platform implementations, modernization programs, migrations, or digital transformation.
Strong Agile delivery experience including Scrum, planning, backlog, release, and Jira governance.
Ability to lead cross-functional teams across business, technology, QA, conversion, and integration.
Experience managing executive stakeholders, client leadership, vendors, and distributed delivery organizations.
Strong understanding of healthcare payer operations and core administration platforms.
Proven track record delivering 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, conversion, integration, and release management.
Establish and maintain delivery governance, sprint planning, release planning, dependency management, and stakeholder communications.
Manage program risks, issues, and impediments with mitigation and resolution plans.
Coordinate integrated planning, environment readiness, implementation activities, and production releases with client leadership, vendors, and internal teams.