Senior Facets Configuration Lead (Remote)

Cognizant; Madison (WI); Remote; USD 130,000 - 145,000; 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 Configuration Manager for a remote role open to qualified applicants in the United States. You will lead end-to-end configuration delivery for healthcare payer implementations, platform transformations, product launches, regulatory initiatives, and migration programs, coordinating with stakeholders and delivery teams.

Lead configuration across multiple Facets areas and govern standards, estimates, dependencies, and releases while mentoring onsite and offshore teams

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in IT, business, healthcare admin, or related field.
• 10+ years in healthcare payer tech, implementation, or delivery.
• 5+ years leading Facets configuration teams or large implementations.
• Deep knowledge of payer operations across Commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid.
• Experience leading enterprise implementations and regulatory initiatives.
• Proven success managing cross-functional, distributed teams.
• Experience with project planning, governance, RAID, releases, and exec reporting.
• Strong analytical, leadership, communication, and decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead configuration delivery across Facets functional areas.
• Translate business, operational, contractual, and regulatory requirements into scalable configuration solutions.
• Establish and govern configuration standards, design controls, traceability processes, quality reviews, and approval frameworks.
• Manage configuration scope, timelines, estimates, dependencies, releases, and environment promotions.
• Oversee configuration, migration, testing, deployment, and production support across complex initiatives.
• Drive solution reviews, impact assessments, risk mitigation, and release management.
• Provide leadership for onsite and offshore configuration teams while fostering collaboration and delivery excellence.
• Partner with business, compliance, operations, technology, vendors, and client stakeholders.
• Deliver executive reporting, governance updates, and delivery metrics.
• Support production stabilization and continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Project planning

Communication

Analytical thinking

Decision making

Problem-solving

Stakeholder management

Education

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

Tools

CMU

NetworX

SQL validation

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Facets Configuration Manager for a remote role open to qualified applicants in the United States. You will lead end-to-end configuration delivery for healthcare payer implementations, platform transformations, product launches, regulatory initiatives, and migration programs, coordinating with stakeholders and delivery teams.

Lead configuration across multiple Facets areas and govern standards, estimates, dependencies, and releases while mentoring onsite and offshore teams