Job Description

As a Technical Product Owner, you will be responsible for accountability and ownership of product in a health services software engineering environment. You will work alongside a software engineering team to understand product vision and follow best practices for maximum product efficiency. You will be responsible for participating in intake forums, story mapping, refinement sessions as well as future product planning sessions. You will play an integral role in planning sprints, grooming the backlog in Jira, and implementing MVPs (minimum viable product). This is a great opportunity to be mentored and trained on new technologies in an agile environment.

Details:

• Collaborate with agile teams to build and manage new features and capabilities while delivering desired business impact, while providing thought leadership to Program Governance activities such as prioritization and negotiating with stakeholders on backlog priorities.
• Responsible for owning the technical roadmap and non-functional requirements for product (e.g. page rendering times, how long it takes to log in, response on service calls).
• Work with disparate business groups to optimize business and financial case for how technology will deliver their projects.
• Create, evolve and communicate feature area specifications that form cohesive, iterative plans that align to the multi release vision.
• Write Definition of Ready user stories using JIRA and maintain groomed backlog for business stakeholder priorities, and incorporate architectural changes recommended by engineering into user stories.
• Proactively resolve upstream dependencies and resolve conflict effectively across teams.
• Advocate for process improvements through an understanding of the engineering lifecycle and previous experience.
• Monitor and instrument products for business outcomes and tech product health.
• Integrate and deploy tooling (e.g. Git and Jenkins) for team (place hold capacity).
• Enable test automation (i.e. acceptance criteria should be clear, agreed upon and tests should be automated).
• Focus on reducing technical debt to deliver value in terms of efficiency and quality metrics.

Skills:

• Experience working in technology or in close engagement on component preferred.
• Previous coding experience preferred but not necessary.
• Complete understanding and wide application of technical principles, theories and concepts in the field.
• Knowledge of user experience and technical design essential.
• Proven skill at balancing technical knowledge with business possibility and acumen.
• High degree of comfort in fast-paced dynamic / ambiguous environment.
• Ability to work cross functionally with Compliance, IRM, Infrastructure, and Software Engineering.

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