Remote Facets Configuration Lead for Payer Transformations

Cognizant; City of Albany (NY); Remote; USD 130,000 - 145,000; 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 is seeking a Facets Configuration Manager to lead end-to-end configuration delivery for healthcare payer implementations, platform transformations, product launches, and regulatory initiatives. This remote-US role involves collaboration with business stakeholders, client leadership, operations, technology partners, and delivery teams to ensure governance, quality, and successful execution.

You will direct configuration activities across multiple facets areas, establish standards,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience in IT, business, healthcare or related field.
• 10+ years of healthcare payer technology, implementation, configuration, or delivery experience.
• 5+ years of experience leading Facets configuration teams, projects, or large-scale implementation efforts.
• Strong knowledge of healthcare payer operations, claims administration, and product management across Commercial, Medicare, and/or Medicaid.
• Experience leading enterprise implementations, platform migrations, product launches, regulatory initiatives, or transformation programs.
• Proven success managing cross-functional, geographically distributed teams and stakeholder groups.
• Experience with project planning, estimation, governance, RAID management, release management, resource coordination, and executive reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead configuration delivery across multiple Facets functional areas.
• Translate requirements into scalable configuration solutions.
• Establish configuration standards, controls, traceability, and approvals.
• Manage scope, timelines, estimates, dependencies, and releases.
• Oversee configuration, migration, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Drive solution reviews, impact assessments, and risk mitigation.
• Provide leadership and mentorship for onsite and offshore teams.
• Partner with business, compliance, operations, technology, and client stakeholders.
• Deliver executive reporting, governance updates, and delivery metrics.
• Support production stabilization and continuous improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical thinking

Communication

Decision-making

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business, Healthcare Administration, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Facets

SQL

NetworX

CMU

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Facets Configuration Manager to lead end-to-end configuration delivery for healthcare payer implementations, platform transformations, product launches, and regulatory initiatives. This remote-US role involves collaboration with business stakeholders, client leadership, operations, technology partners, and delivery teams to ensure governance, quality, and successful execution.

You will direct configuration activities across multiple facets areas, establish standards,