Remote Delivery Manager, Healthcare Payer Transformation

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Montpelier (VT); 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 complex transformation programs, coordinating across product owners, stakeholders, architects, and vendor teams. You will drive end-to-end delivery, governance, and integrated planning to achieve business outcomes.

This remote role in the United States requires 10+ years in healthcare payer delivery, strong Agile experience, and the ability to manage multi‑vendor programs and executive

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, CS, Business, Healthcare Administration, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience leading large-scale technology delivery programs, with significant healthcare payer experience.
• Proven 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.
• 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, ensuring alignment with business objectives, program goals, 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

Leadership

Agile delivery

Scrum

Jira governance

Stakeholder management

Cross‑functional teams

Delivery governance

Education

Bachelor's degree (IT/CS/Healthcare)

Tools

Jira

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Delivery Manager for Healthcare Payer to lead complex transformation programs, coordinating across product owners, stakeholders, architects, and vendor teams. You will drive end-to-end delivery, governance, and integrated planning to achieve business outcomes.

This remote role in the United States requires 10+ years in healthcare payer delivery, strong Agile experience, and the ability to manage multi‑vendor programs and executive