Consulting Manager, Healthcare Business Analyst (Payer)

Cognizant is a global community of experts dedicated to helping clients reimagine their business. The Consulting Manager, Healthcare Business Analyst will lead discovery and requirements analysis for healthcare transformation initiatives, collaborating with various teams to ensure clear documentation and stakeholder alignment.

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