Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cognizant is a technology services company seeking a Facets Data Analytics & Automation Consultant to support healthcare payer operations. The role delivers data-driven insights, reporting, and automation solutions while improving data quality, operational efficiency, and decision-making through collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Analyze Facets data across membership, provider, claims, product, benefits, billing, and financial domains to identify trends, risks, and business opportunities
- Develop complex SQL queries, reconciliations, operational reports, dashboards, and analytical solutions that support business and operational decision-making
- Design and implement automation solutions using SQL, Python, APIs, scripting, and workflow tools to reduce manual effort and improve accuracy
- Create automated monitoring, exception handling, data validation, and reporting processes that support healthcare payer operations
- Perform data profiling, root-cause analysis, testing, and validation activities to improve data quality and operational controls
- Build and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, audit controls, and support procedures for analytics and automation solutions
- Partner with cross-functional teams including operations, reporting, ETL, architecture, configuration, and production support to deliver business-focused solutions
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- 7+ years of healthcare payer technology, data analytics, or reporting experience
- 4+ years of experience working with Facets data structures, processes, and healthcare payer operations
- Advanced SQL expertise, including query optimization, data extraction, reconciliation, and large-scale relational database analysis
- Experience designing, developing, and supporting analytics, reporting, or automation solutions from requirements through production deployment
- Strong understanding of healthcare payer data domains, including claims, membership, provider, benefits, billing, and financial data
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to translate technical findings into business recommendations
- This is a remote position open to qualified applicants within the United States
- Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship
- Please note, this role cannot offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future
- Experience across Facets Claims, Membership, Provider, Product & Benefits, Billing, Pricing, or Financial management domains
- Hands-on experience with Power BI, Tableau, Python, ETL tools, RPA platforms, Autosys, Control-M, or similar automation technologies
- Knowledge of healthcare EDI transactions including 834, 837, and 835 processing and integrations
- Experience supporting cloud modernization, data conversion, platform migration, or enterprise analytics initiatives
- Understanding of HIPAA, data governance, privacy, security, and audit compliance requirements
- Experience working within Agile delivery environments and cross-functional healthcare technology teams
Benefits
- Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.
- 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
- Remote position open to qualified applicants within the United States
- Various wellbeing programs
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