Remote Delivery Manager, Healthcare Payer Transformation

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid holidays/Time off

401(k) plan

Disability benefits

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation in the United States seeks a Delivery Manager for Healthcare Payer to lead end-to-end transformation programs across platform implementations, modernization, migrations, and enhancement initiatives.

You will collaborate with Product Owners, stakeholders, architects, business analysts, development teams, and client leadership to deliver measurable business and technology outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, Healthcare Administration, or a related field.
• 10+ years leading large-scale technology delivery programs, with significant healthcare payer experience.
• Experience managing platform implementations, modernization programs, migrations, or digital transformations.
• Strong experience with Agile delivery methodologies including Scrum, sprint planning, backlog management, release planning, and Jira governance.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams across business, technology, quality engineering, conversion, and integration.
• Experience managing executive stakeholders, client leadership, vendors, and distributed delivery teams.
• Understanding of healthcare payer operations and related business domains.
• Proven track record of driving delivery excellence through risk and dependency management.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of healthcare payer transformation initiatives.
• Drive Agile execution across multiple workstreams including analysis, configuration, development, testing, and release management.
• Establish and maintain delivery governance, sprint and release planning, dependencies, and communications.
• Manage program risks, issues, and impediments with mitigation plans.
• Coordinate with client leadership, vendors, and internal teams for integrated planning and production releases.

Skills

Agile delivery

Scrum

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Cross-functional leadership

Healthcare payer domain

Program leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT, CS, Business, or related field

Tools

Jira

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation in the United States seeks a Delivery Manager for Healthcare Payer to lead end-to-end transformation programs across platform implementations, modernization, migrations, and enhancement initiatives.

You will collaborate with Product Owners, stakeholders, architects, business analysts, development teams, and client leadership to deliver measurable business and technology outcomes.