Remote Delivery Leader, Healthcare Payer Transformation

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Paid holidays

Paid Time Off

401(k) plan 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 across platform implementation, modernization, migration, and enhancements. You will collaborate with Product Owners, stakeholders, architects, and vendor teams to deliver business and technology outcomes.

Role emphasizes end-to-end delivery, agile methodology, governance, risk management, and multi-stakeholder coordination within the Healthcare Delivery

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 in healthcare payer environments.
• Proven experience with platform implementations, modernization, migrations, or digital transformations.
• Strong Agile delivery experience including Scrum, sprint planning, backlog management, and release planning.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional teams across business, technology, QA, and integration.
• Experience managing executive stakeholders, client leadership, vendors, and distributed delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of healthcare payer transformation initiatives in alignment with business objectives.
• Drive Agile execution across multiple workstreams including analysis, configuration, development, testing, and release management.
• Establish 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, and production releases with client leadership and vendors.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional coordination

Program governance

Risk management

Scrum knowledge

Jira governance

Vendor coordination

Release management

Education

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

Tools

Jira

Agile tooling

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Delivery Manager for Healthcare Payer to lead complex payer transformation programs across platform implementation, modernization, migration, and enhancements. You will collaborate with Product Owners, stakeholders, architects, and vendor teams to deliver business and technology outcomes.

Role emphasizes end-to-end delivery, agile methodology, governance, risk management, and multi-stakeholder coordination within the Healthcare Delivery