Consulting Manager, Healthcare Business Analyst (Payer)

About the role

As a Manager, Healthcare Business Analyst, you will lead discovery, requirements analysis, scope definition, and development-ready user story creation for healthcare transformation initiatives. You will collaborate with business stakeholders, system integration teams, configuration teams, quality assurance teams, implementation partners, and clients.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery workshops with business stakeholders to identify business, system integration, configuration, and testing requirements.
• Facilitate scope discovery sessions, document business needs, and drive alignment to establish a clearly defined and approved implementation scope before development begins.
• Review approved Business Requirements Documents and translate requirements into development-ready user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
• Prioritize and manage requirements traceability, manage requirement changes, and support delivery through clear documentation, stakeholder communication, and requirements governance.
• Partner with business, system integration, configuration, quality assurance, and delivery teams to review, refine, validate, and align requirements.

Requirements

• 8+ years of business analysis experience, preferably within healthcare payer, healthcare technology, or consulting environments.
• Experience leading discovery workshops, requirements elicitation, scope definition, and stakeholder alignment activities.
• Strong ability to translate business requirements into development-ready user stories with detailed acceptance criteria.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams, including business, development, testing, configuration, implementation, and system integration partners.
• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, communication, documentation, and requirements governance skills.

Qualifications

• Experience working in Agile delivery environments.
• Healthcare payer experience, including exposure to claims, membership, provider, benefits, care management, or related payer business functions.
• Experience supporting large-scale healthcare platform implementations, modernization programs, or system integration initiatives.
• Ability to manage ambiguity, drive clarity, and influence stakeholders across business and technology teams.
• Strong consulting mindset with the ability to connect business needs to practical delivery outcomes.

Skills

• Experience working in Agile delivery environments.
• Healthcare payer experience, including exposure to claims, membership, provider, benefits, care management, or related payer business functions.
• Experience supporting large-scale healthcare platform implementations, modernization programs, or system integration initiatives.
• Ability to manage ambiguity, drive clarity, and influence stakeholders across business and technology teams.
• Strong consulting mindset with the ability to connect business needs to practical delivery outcomes.

Benefits

This position is eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans. Benefits include medical, dental, vision and life insurance, 401(k) plan and contributions, employee stock purchase plan, employee assistance program, 10 paid holidays plus PTO, paid parental leave and fertility assistance, learning and development certifications and programs.

Pay

$110,000-$129,500

Schedule

Remote position open to qualified applicants in the United States. The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements.