Senior Facets Configuration Lead (Remote, US)

Cognizant; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 130,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays and PTO

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 (Remote - US) to lead end-to-end configuration delivery for healthcare payer implementations and platform migrations. You will align with business stakeholders, operations, technology partners, and delivery teams to ensure governance, quality, and execution.

Qualifications include 10+ years in healthcare payer tech and 5+ years guiding Facets teams. The role offers remote work within the US, annual salary range $130,000-$145,000, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Business, Healthcare Administration, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years in healthcare payer tech, implementation, configuration, or delivery.
• 5+ years leading Facets configuration teams, projects, or large deployments.
• Strong knowledge of payer operations, claims, and product management across lines of business.
• Experience leading enterprise implementations, platform migrations, product launches, redirects or transformations.
• Proven success managing cross-functional, geographically distributed teams and stakeholders.
• Experience with project planning, estimation, governance, RAID, release, resource coordination, and executive reporting.
• Strong analytical, leadership, problem-solving, communication, and decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead configuration delivery across multiple Facets functional areas (Membership, Group, Product & Benefits, Provider, Claims, Workflow, Billing, Customer Service, Accounting).
• Translate business and regulatory requirements into scalable configuration solutions.
• Establish and govern configuration standards, design controls, traceability, and approval frameworks.
• Manage scope, timelines, estimates, dependencies, releases, and environment promotions.
• Oversee configuration, migration, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Drive solution reviews, impact assessments, defect resolution, and release management.
• Provide leadership and mentoring for onsite and offshore teams.
• Partner with business, compliance, operations, technology, vendors, and client stakeholders.
• Deliver executive reporting, governance updates, and delivery metrics.
• Support production stabilization, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Analytical thinking

Communication

Decision making

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/Business/Healthcare/Engineering

Tools

CMU

NetworX

SQL

Facets configuration tools

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Facets Configuration Manager (Remote - US) to lead end-to-end configuration delivery for healthcare payer implementations and platform migrations. You will align with business stakeholders, operations, technology partners, and delivery teams to ensure governance, quality, and execution.

Qualifications include 10+ years in healthcare payer tech and 5+ years guiding Facets teams. The role offers remote work within the US, annual salary range $130,000-$145,000, and