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IT Product Owner

United States, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 6 Dec 2024

About the role

Are you looking for an opportunity to use your IT skills to truly change the world for the better? We are the leading non-profit organization that is redesigning the tools that enable public health agencies to do their jobs. We need committed, mission-driven technologists to help us build the next generation of public health tools for our Public Health Systems department. Public Health Systems advances population health management and healthcare delivery through the development of public health IT systems, health information exchange and interoperability solutions. We work with State and Federal government agencies to build and develop software that impacts people's lives. In this role, you will have the opportunity to help Altarum modernize the public health infrastructure and make a difference in your community. Our Public Health Systems department's efforts range from building the next generation technology in disease surveillance to optimizing data standards and system integrations to improve the coordination and delivery of healthcare for patients. You’ll work in an Agile environment alongside a team of Software Developers, Business Analysts, and Public Health Analysts.
Altarum, a nonprofit systems research and consulting organization serving government and private sector clients, is pleased to announce an opening for an IT Product Owner within the Public Health Systems department. Public Health Systems advances population health management and healthcare delivery through the development of novel applications and health information exchange and interoperability solutions. As an IT Product Owner at Altarum, you will have the opportunity to make software development contributions to important healthcare projects such as java-based web applications for public health, clinical decision support tools, EHR integration, and mobile applications. You will be the right-hand person to the Sr. Product Manager and assist in defining new and interesting use cases in interoperability. You’ll work in an Agile environment alongside a team of Software Developers, Integration Engineers, Quality Engineers, Business Analysts, and Public Health Interoperability Analysts. 

Responsibilties

Lead conversations with clients, stakeholders, and team members to identify, gather, and define requirements for custom software development projects.
Help stakeholders identify a shared product vision.
Create and maintain Product Requirement Document(s) (PRD), Product Roadmap, and Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
Create the necessary functional and technical documentation, from which the software development team will produce code.
Managing a business analyst team lead with analysts.
Help internal development team execute on the shared product vision by explaining product and feature set functionality, workflows, and/or design expectations.
Organize and distill product requirements from PRD (product requirements document) into Epics and User Stories.
Conduct and/or lead the analysis and documentation of business processes, workflows, and use cases to help define features, user stories, and user journeys throughout the software development lifecycle.
Own the product backlog and organize work items for fulfillment of work as identified and defined by stakeholders and/or business team.
Prioritize tech debt, backlog, change requests and enhancements to ensure customer requirements and deadlines are met.
Communicate with manager all risks associated with product quality, delays in timelines, resource availability, changes in scope, etc.
Lead Sprint Planning meeting with external stakeholders and/or business team to prioritize and organize work for sprints.
Organize prioritized work into sprints for team and work with Scrum Master(s) to set sprint goals for product development according to product roadmap and release schedule.
Assist Scrum Master and Development Leads with communicating product requirements, functionality, feature, and priority to development team during sprint planning with development team.
Present Epic/User Stories selected for sprints during internal sprint planning/kickoff meetings.
Be available to answer product, epic, user story questions from development team (attend daily standups and/or ad hoc technical meetings).
Ensure Epic creation, User Story creation, product design, wireframes/mockups, prioritization of Epics/User Stories are executed according to product roadmap and defined sprints per release schedule.
Lead and perform product demos to clients, stakeholders, and/or business owners.
Assist with product launch execution, including scheduling training for user groups and overseeing train