Remote Healthcare Data Analytics & Automation Consultant

Cognizant; Carson City (NV); Remote; USD 113,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan and contributions

Paid holidays plus PTO

Disability coverage

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Facets Data Analytics & Automation Consultant (Remote - US) to deliver data-driven insights and automation across healthcare payer operations. You will partner with business leaders, operations teams, data analysts, and architects to build scalable analytics capabilities.

Responsibilities include analyzing Facets data, developing SQL queries, and designing automation using Python, APIs, scripting, and workflow tools to improve data quality and decision-making.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience in a relevant field.
• 7+ years in healthcare payer technology, data analytics, or reporting.
• Advanced SQL expertise including optimization and large-scale data analysis.
• Experience designing and supporting analytics, reporting, or automation projects.
• Strong healthcare payer data domain knowledge across multiple domains.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Analyze Facets data across membership, provider, claims, product, benefits, billing, and financial domains.
• Develop complex SQL queries, reconciliations, and operational dashboards.
• Design and implement automation using SQL, Python, APIs, scripting, and workflow tools.
• Create automated monitoring, data validation, and reporting processes.
• Perform data profiling, root-cause analysis, testing, and validation.
• Build and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and audit controls.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver business-focused solutions.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Analytical skills

Communication

Stakeholder management

Problem-solving

Healthcare payer domain knowledge

Agile delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Engineering, or related field

7+ years healthcare payer analytics/experience

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Python

ETL tools

RPA platforms

Autosys

Control-M

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Facets Data Analytics & Automation Consultant (Remote - US) to deliver data-driven insights and automation across healthcare payer operations. You will partner with business leaders, operations teams, data analysts, and architects to build scalable analytics capabilities.

Responsibilities include analyzing Facets data, developing SQL queries, and designing automation using Python, APIs, scripting, and workflow tools to improve data quality and decision-making.