Technical Product Owner

Qualifications

• 3+ years' experience as a technical product owner
• 3+ years' experience with Cloud solutions such as AWS, Azure.
• 2+ years' experience in SQL/PL SQL queries to data mine or perform data validations before a release deployment
• 3+ years of proven experience implementing solutions or projects with matrix teams
• Healthcare industry experience
• Excellent ability to develop and build teams by assessing quality talent and motivating/inspiring others
• Sound understanding of Agile Methodology and other project management methodologies is required
• Previous experience with Agile Central or comparable agile management tools is required
• SAFe Agile PM/PO experience. Certification preferred
• Demonstrated core project management skills including project planning, scope management, issue and risk management, resource planning, financial management, etc.
• Experience working in an organization going through an Agile transformation and ability to adapt when working with teams that are not Agile is highly desired

Key Product Owner Responsibilities

• Under the direction of the Product Manager, decompose program epic work requirements, prioritize work into features and technical user stories for team members to clearly understand what to do.
• Bridge the gap between the product and technical side of the product development with their technical background.
• Take ownership of assigned features and lead the creation and prioritization of the team backlog
• Lead prioritization of work for delivery team based on business value and engagement with stakeholders
• Monitor resource capabilities and arrange for coaching, training or resource adjustments
• Work with the assigned ART (Agile Release team) RTE (Release Train Engineer) to ensure cross-team dependencies are identified and managed.
• Actively participate in program increment planning, roadmap activities, and program prioritization and sequencing activities. Provide read-outs to ART teams in a clear and concise manner that allows other teams to understand impacts, dependencies, etc.
• Be able to query data using SQL tools to determine where the gap is in the data to properly document the feature requirements and jira stories for the IT Engineers to interpret for their solution design.
• Escalate risks to RTE and/or Product Manager
• Assist scrum masters in assessing the scrum maturity of the team and implementing any processes that support the team.

Additional Responsibilities

• As needed, coordinate vetting of epics with impacted teams so that features can be written for each team by the corresponding Product Owner. Epics could include:
  • Initiative epics where there is no RTE/ coordinator from the business
  • Next-level detail architecture design discussions to refine details around client/ producer solutions
• Carries technical knowledge into strategic conversations about the product.
• Assist with managing the work being done across teams for anything not managed by RTE/ LPM/ others within the client/ producer ART
  • Manage cross-team/ business dependencies during implementation (within the PI)
  • Address/escalate issues as needed
• Coordinate updates to the business for work they are funding
  • Monthly status updates schedule, create agenda, send notes.