Remote Senior Facets Product & Benefits Architect

Cognizant; Boise (ID); Remote; USD 93,000 - 109,000; Full time

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 is seeking a Facets Product & Benefits Senior Analyst for a remote US role. You will design, configure, and optimize healthcare products and benefit plans within the Facets platform, collaborating with stakeholders across product, operations, claims, pricing, and technology to ensure accurate benefit configurations and compliant outcomes.

You will lead requirements gathering, design sessions, testing, and production support, while ensuring quality and readiness for deployments and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business, Healthcare Administration, or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 6+ years of healthcare payer experience, including at least 4 years of hands-on Facets Product & Benefits configuration or implementation experience.
• Strong knowledge of healthcare benefit design, including copays, coinsurance, deductibles, out-of-pocket maximums, accumulators, coverage tiers, exclusions, limits, and network variations.

Responsibilities

• Analyze business, operational, and regulatory requirements and translate them into effective Facets Product & Benefits configuration solutions.
• Design and configure healthcare products, benefit plans, accumulators, coverage tiers, cost-sharing structures, limits, exclusions, and network-based benefit rules.
• Facilitate requirements gathering, solution design sessions, and configuration reviews while identifying gaps, dependencies, risks, and implementation considerations.
• Validate benefit configurations through unit, system, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing to ensure accurate claims outcomes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to assess impacts across membership, provider networks, pricing, claims processing, eligibility, and downstream systems.
• Troubleshoot configuration issues, perform root cause analysis, and recommend sustainable corrective actions to improve quality and reduce production defects.
• Support implementation, release readiness, production validation, benefit renewals, product launches, and post-production stabilization activities.

Skills

Healthcare payer experience

Facets configuration

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT, Business, or Healthcare

Tools

Facets

SQL

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Facets Product & Benefits Senior Analyst for a remote US role. You will design, configure, and optimize healthcare products and benefit plans within the Facets platform, collaborating with stakeholders across product, operations, claims, pricing, and technology to ensure accurate benefit configurations and compliant outcomes.

You will lead requirements gathering, design sessions, testing, and production support, while ensuring quality and readiness for deployments and