Remote Healthcare Payer Delivery Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation

Olympia (WA)

Remote

USD 130,000 - 153,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

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 large-scale payer transformation programs, coordinating with product owners, architects, and client leadership to deliver business and technology outcomes.

You will drive Agile delivery across multiple workstreams, manage risks, and ensure successful production releases through collaboration with vendors and internal teams. Remote work is available for qualified US applicants.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in IT, CS, Business, Healthcare Admin, or related field.
10+ years of experience leading large-scale technology delivery programs.
Proven experience managing platform implementations, modernization, migrations, or digital transformation initiatives.
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.
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.
Manage program risks, issues, and impediments with mitigation and resolution plans.
Partner with client leadership, vendors, and internal teams to coordinate planning, environment readiness, implementation activities, and production releases.