Agile Product Owner

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

• This leader will work with key business and IT partners to develop strategic plans for the technologies impacting the company. Works to deliver features defined for providing methodology process policies, practices, guidance and tools to the organization.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Required Work Experience

• 3 years of experience in healthcare or insurance field with emphasis on Business Analysis and/or computer technology including EDI
• 2 years of experience in a role with demonstrated ability to communicate with diverse groups of people inside and outside of the business
• 3 years of experience in decomposing high-level initiative information and evaluating the components to forecast work effort required

Required Education

• High-School Diploma or GED in general field of study (All Levels)

Required Licenses

• N/A

Required Certifications

• Achievement of agile product owner certification within 12 months of placement

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Preferred Work Experience

• 8 years of experience in healthcare or insurance field with emphasis on Business Analysis and/or computer technology including EDI
• 5 years of experience in a role with demonstrated ability to communicate with diverse groups of people inside and outside of the business
• 3 years of experience working with Agile / Scrum work environments as a product owner, writing user stories, and following the development process through user story acceptance (All Levels)

Preferred Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business, or related field (All Levels)

Preferred Licenses

• N/A

Preferred Certifications

• Agile Product Owner Certification

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Level 1 – Performs job functions with minimal supervision

• Plan, direct, and coordinate projects to ensure goals and objectives are accomplished within prescribed time frames and funding parameters.
• Accountable for the product backlog and prioritization of user stories with team members
• Create business user stories
• Partners with Scrum master’s in supporting Scrum Framework
• Shares and decomposes Features into user stories (non-technical)
• Develop a deep understanding of the customer and product needs
• Recognized voice of the business to the team
• Works closely with project managers to represent capabilities and features at team level
• Ensures traceability between requirements to features to user stories
• Review of test cases against user stories acceptance criteria
• Periodically re-prioritize the Product Backlog based on customer feedback, market changes and business priority as communicated by the Product Manager
• Actively participates in Product Backlog grooming sessions, retrospectives, defect management and project team’s release planning sessions
• Accessible for the team to answer questions, and during Sprint planning sessions, and Daily Scrum
• Owns the continual acceptance criteria for business value story user stories
• Create and deliver presentations.

Level 2 - Performs job functions in a lead capacity with general management oversight

• Lead, instruct, direct and check the work of other team members.
• Provide input for team member performance reviews.
• Formally accepts the user stories once all acceptance criteria are met
• Assist management in project support and project resource planning.
• Facilitate and/or create new procedures and processes that support advancing technologies or capabilities
• Evaluate high-level project information and assess project components to forecast work effort required
• Ensure Service Level Agreements between department and operational or technical areas are met
• Provide peer-level review and mentoring to level 1

ALL LEVELS

• Each progressive level includes the ability to perform the essential functions of any lower levels and mentor employees in those levels.
• Participate in corporate quality and data governance programs
• The position requires a full-time work schedule. Full-time is defined as working at least 40 hours per week, plus any additional hours as requested or as needed to meet business requirements.
• Perform all other duties as assigned