Senior Technical Business Analyst - Data & Analytics with Healthcare Experience

Job Summary

The Senior Technical Business Analyst - Data & Analytics with Healthcare Experience serves as a critical bridge between business stakeholders and technical teams, driving the successful delivery of data and analytics solutions within the healthcare domain. This role is responsible for gathering and analyzing business requirements, translating them into functional and technical specifications, performing complex data analysis, and ensuring solutions align with business objectives. The ideal candidate combines strong healthcare industry knowledge, advanced analytical skills, and experience working in Agile environments to support data-driven decision-making and enterprise reporting initiatives.

• Please note, this role is not able to offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future*

About the Role

As a Senior Technical Business Analyst - Data & Analytics with Healthcare Experience, you will partner closely with business leaders, product owners, data engineers, architects, and analytics teams to deliver high-impact healthcare data solutions. You will lead requirements discovery sessions, analyze complex healthcare data sets, and define business and technical requirements that support reporting, analytics, and operational initiatives.

In this role, you will leverage advanced SQL and data analysis skills to perform data validation, mapping, reconciliation, and impact assessments across multiple systems and platforms. You will work extensively with healthcare data, including claims, claims adjudication, Medicare, and Medicaid processes, ensuring data accuracy and alignment with business needs.

You will play a key role in Agile delivery teams by creating user stories, defining acceptance criteria, facilitating backlog refinement sessions, supporting sprint planning activities, and coordinating User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Additionally, you will collaborate across cross-functional teams to identify risks, resolve issues, manage dependencies, and drive projects from conception through successful implementation.

This is an excellent opportunity for a seasoned Business Analyst who enjoys translating complex business challenges into scalable data solutions while helping healthcare organizations improve insights, operational efficiency, and business outcomes.

In This Role, You Will

• Gather, analyze, and document business, functional, and technical requirements for healthcare data and analytics initiatives.
• Partner with business stakeholders and cross-functional teams to understand healthcare business processes, data requirements, and reporting needs.
• Conduct requirements workshops and facilitate stakeholder discussions to define project scope and solution requirements.
• Create and manage user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and supporting documentation.
• Perform data analysis using advanced SQL, MS SQL Server, and GCP/BigQuery to support business and technical solutioning.
• Conduct data mapping, reconciliation, impact analysis, and root cause analysis across multiple systems and data sources.
• Collaborate with data engineering, analytics, QA, and business teams to ensure successful solution delivery.
• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, and stakeholder reviews.
• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities and support issue identification and resolution.
• Manage risks, dependencies, and delivery timelines while ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Communicate project status, requirements, and recommendations to business and executive stakeholders.
• Support end-to-end delivery ownership for data and analytics initiatives within the healthcare domain.

Work Model

We strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role's business requirements, this is a remote position open to qualified applicants in the United States. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs.

• Please note, this role is not able to offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future*

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor''s degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Healthcare Administration, or a related field.
• Strong experience in Business Analysis, including requirements gathering, analysis, documentation, and stakeholder management.
• Demonstrated experience in healthcare business processes and healthcare data analysis.
• Experience working with Claims, Claims Adjudication, Medicare, and/or Medicaid programs.
• Advanced SQL skills with hands-on experience using MS SQL Server.
• Experience working with GCP and BigQuery for data analysis and data validation activities.
• Proven experience creating user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional requirements documentation.
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies and participation in Agile delivery teams.
• Experience performing data mapping, reconciliation, impact analysis, and root cause analysis.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience coordinating UAT activities and supporting end-to-end project delivery.
• Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with Python.
• Experience with Apache Airflow.
• Experience with Tidal Workload Automation.
• Experience using GitHub, VS Code, and IBM Data Studio.
• Experience working on enterprise data, reporting, and analytics initiatives.
• Experience collaborating with data engineering and analytics teams in large-scale environments.

Salary and Other Compensation:

Applications will be accepted until November 8th , 2026.

The annual salary for this position is between $64,000 - $94,500 depending on the experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans.

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• 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

Additional employment information

Compensation information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government issued ID during each interview.

Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Applicants for US based positions must be currently authorized to work for any employer in the United States. The company is unable to provide employment-based immigration sponsorship for US based positions.

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About Cognizant:

Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization's unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai or @cognizant.