Agile Product Management Senior Advisor

Cigna-Evernorth Services Inc. seeks an Agile Product Management Senior Advisor for the Morris Plains, NJ location responsible for overseeing the writing and modifying of complex technical functional requirements for a complex product, which are derived from the business needs and serve as the fundamental basis for our company’s engineers' coding and implementation efforts, ultimately fulfilling the business objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Offer leadership for Program Governance activities, including prioritization and negotiating with stakeholders regarding backlog priorities.

• Oversee the technical roadmap and non-functional requirements for company products, such as page rendering times, measuring the time it takes to log in to a service, and response on service calls.

• Collaborate with disparate business and financial groups to optimize the technological delivery of projects.

• Collaborate with agile teams to build and manage new features while delivering desired business impact.

• Create, evolve, and communicate feature area specifications that form cohesive, iterative plans that align to the long-term strategic plan known as the multi-release vision.

• Write Definition of Ready (DoR) user stories to effectively take the software application to development and then maintain a well-groomed backlog of code.

• Incorporate architectural changes recommended by software engineers into user stories to align with the needs of business stakeholders.

• Proactively resolve upstream dependencies and conflict effectively across teams.

• Advocate for process improvements.

• Monitor products for business outcomes and technology product health.

• Integrate and deploy tooling, such as Git and Jenkins, for the appropriate team.

• Test automation to ensure acceptance criteria is clear.

• Focus on reducing tech debt when the value of such debt can be quantified in efficiency and quality of product metrics.

• Hybrid Work Schedule.

• 10% domestic travel required for project meetings.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering or related field and 5 years of experience as a Programmer Analyst, Associate – Projects, Engineering Manager or related occupation.

• Requires experience: Within healthcare business/domain; Working on a client customized framework to accommodate client software specific requirements;

• Analyzing WFLs and corresponding COBOL programs in Unisys Mainframes using Emulator;

• Coding JCLs for corresponding analyzed WFLs and performing Unit Testing in IBM Mainframe environment; Using Datapower XML frameworks, Mule Enterprise Service Bus and Integrated Frameworks, DB2, Oracle DB, PL/SQL, REXX, and Mainframes;

• Performing Functional Studies, Requirement Analysis and Estimation, Analysis and Design, Technical Documentation, Conducting and Unit Testing, SIT support, UAT Execution and Support, and Project Deployment activities;

• Using CA Rally and JIRA Tools for Agile project methodology, user stories, tasks and process tracking; Supporting, troubleshooting and coordinating with onsite/offshore teams and Clients to clarify any design/programming issues;

• Tracking Application Development and Application maintenance projects in both SDLC and Agile Project Methodologies;

• Performing current state analysis of various data sources and legacy application flows; Creating project plans (MPP) for various project tracks, resources, estimations, effort, tasks and timeline tracking and status reporting;

• Providing inputs to Front End Java development team with details of existing programs and underlying tables for current and future state of the product;

• Maintaining technical and product roadmaps; Writing and executing complex SQL queries with SQL Assistant; Data warehousing using Data Analysis, Data Mapping, Data Gathering, Data Modeling, BI Reporting, CRUD, Data Flow design and documentation, Dashboard and Reports; and

• Using: Confluence, JMeter Benchmark Tool, Rx SIG Decode Tool, Generic Test Harness, SOAP UI, ETL, MS Visio, MS Project, CICS, IMS DB, Data Store, IBM Z/OS, ZDLC, UNIK, FACETS, TruProvider, File Manager, File Aid, SPUFI, Debugger, Xpeditor, Jenkins CI/CD, Kafka, MS SQL, MongoDB, Postgre, Teradata IW, Mainframe/AS400, Attunity, Hadoop, HTML, and XML/XSD Datapower-Mule services.

• 10% domestic travel required for project meetings.

Salary Range: $155,854-$193,600/year

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 116,200 - 193,600 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.

This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus plan.

At The Cigna Group, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment, you’ll be offered several health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k), company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year, paid holidays, and leaves of absence. For more details on our employee benefits programs, click here.

About The Cigna Group

Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we’re dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers and patients. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

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