Consulting Manager, Healthcare Business Analyst (Payer)

Cognizant Consulting is a global community dedicated to helping clients reimagine their business. As a Manager, Healthcare Business Analyst, you will lead discovery and requirements analysis for healthcare transformation initiatives, working collaboratively with various teams to ensure successful implementation.

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
• Partner with business, system integration, configuration, quality assurance, and delivery teams to review, refine, validate, and align requirements
• Maintain end-to-end requirements traceability, manage requirement changes, and support delivery through clear documentation, stakeholder communication, and requirements governance

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
• 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