Senior Technology Product Owner

Company Description

Adtalem Global Education is a national leader in post-secondary education and leading provider of professional talent to the healthcare industry. Adtalem educates and empowers students with the knowledge and skills to become leaders in their communities and make a lasting impact on public health, well-being and beyond. Through equitable access to education, environments that nurture student success, and a focus on expanding and diversifying the talent pipeline in healthcare, Adtalem is building a brighter future for communities and the world.

Adtalem is the parent organization of American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Chamberlain University, Ross University School of Medicine, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine and Walden University.

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Adtalem believes in a culture of collaboration, creativity, and innovation, which thrives when we can work flexibly. Depending on your location, this role may be hybrid or remote.

• HYBRID – If you reside within 50 miles of Adtalem offices in Chicago, IL, Addison, IL, Columbia, MD, Minneapolis, MN, and Miramar, FL this role is hybrid, requiring office presence three days a week (Tue, Wed, Thu), with the rest of the workweek spent working from home.

Job Description

As a Senior Technology Product Owner, you will help to define the vision of the portfolio and products we create; drive the planning, prioritisation and execution of backlogs and deliver new features that support our strategic goals. You coach Technology Product Owners on understanding the relevant end to end business processes, underlying business capabilities and related journey maps and strategies that elevate both student and colleague experiences. You will be expected to understand, assess, and decompose prioritized initiatives into Portfolio and Product roadmaps. Working closely with your key stakeholders to ensure our planning closely aligns with overall business goals and objectives and with a mindset of driving focus to maximize value for both colleagues and customers.
 

• Leading and collaborating with Technology Product Owners, Digital Product Managers and peer group colleagues as well as other IT stakeholder groups towards finalizing short, mid and long terms initiative and product roadmaps aligned to business priorities and value, together with assessment of available capacity and indicative level of effort arising from the team landscape resulting in effectively sequenced and prioritized roadmaps.
• Collaborate with architecture, engineering, and service management teams, to ensure the overall roadmaps are balanced to ensure a scalable, user experience optimized, stable, and performant technology products, that continually meet business needs, ensuring NFR’s (Non Functional Requirements) and System enablers are considered and captured, and cascaded to the relevant teams.
• Define methodology for the analysis and response to target metrics and value post-delivery, including recommended improvements, for use during retrospective work sessions, and with an overall goal of driving increased use and adoption.
• Nurture and build relationships with senior colleagues across all business functions that are impacted by the assigned product and initiative portfolio and underlying business capabilities and technology solutions – use these relationships to collaborate on business outcome alignment, roadmap conceptualization and prioritization.
• Facilitate business process mapping and product mapping work sessions and actively participate in both functional and technological changes that can enhance the student and colleague experience as well as enable business growth and value.
• Working in partnership with applicable product vendors to understand vendor product roadmaps and how these can be exploited to deliver business goals and outcomes as well as ensuring timely feature/product upgrades, maximizing the efficiency and effectiveness of the assigned products. Minimize bespoke customization, and influence business process changes to best utilize vendor supplied products.
• Maintain the quality and integrity of all new product introduction and existing product enhancements within their technical and team boundaries, ensuring identification and contribution of risks and dependencies, ensuring appropriate roadmaps reflect any impact.
• Responsible for progressing all deliverables to “done” status and meet acceptance criteria by coordinating production deployment, post-implementation analysis/feedback, and ongoing support plan.
• Build peer group Technology Product and Portfolio community, identifying and acting upon opportunities for learning and development,