Remote Facets Configuration Lead — Healthcare Payers

Cognizant; Lansing (MI); Remote; USD 130,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Paid holidays

401(k) plan

Job summary

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

You will mentor onsite and offshore teams, manage scope and timelines, and deliver executive reporting while driving continuous improvement across complex healthcare

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Business, Healthcare Administration, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of healthcare payer technology, implementation, configuration, or delivery experience.
• 5+ years of experience leading Facets configuration teams or large-scale implementation efforts.
• Strong knowledge of healthcare payer operations, claims administration, and product management across lines of business.
• 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, and executive reporting.
• Strong analytical, leadership, problem-solving, communication, and decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead configuration delivery across multiple Facets functional areas.
• Translate requirements into scalable configuration solutions.
• Establish governance, traceability, and quality reviews.
• Manage scope, timelines, estimates, and releases.
• Oversee configuration, migration, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Drive reviews, impact assessments, risk mitigation, and release management.
• Provide leadership and mentorship for onsite and offshore teams.
• Partner with stakeholders to ensure alignment and outcomes.
• Deliver governance reports, metrics, and recovery plans.
• Support production stabilization and continuous improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Program management

Payer domain

Configuration mgmt

Stakeholder comms

Team mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

NetworX

SQL

CMU

Agile tools

Job description

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

You will mentor onsite and offshore teams, manage scope and timelines, and deliver executive reporting while driving continuous improvement across complex healthcare