Senior Product Owner

Description

Responsibilities

Humana’s Corporate Marketing organization is seeking an experienced Senior Product Owner to join the team working remote anywhere nationwide. As the Senior Product Owner, you will connect our business stakeholders and our development Scrum teams by managing solution delivery expectations and keeping information flowing in both directions. You will collaborate with business stakeholders and the data warehouse and business intelligence development teams to define and prioritize the Product Vision and Features to maximize value delivered to internal business partners. You will be informed of the business objectives and priorities, empowered to deliver, available to the delivery team, prepared, domain knowledgeable and a subject matter expert. Additionally, in this role you will combine expertise in the domain of data warehousing and business intelligence and apply Lean and Agile principles to deliver innovative business intelligence, reporting and analytic solutions.

Key Role Functions

• Assist with the development team determine what to build and in what sequence

• Define project goals, sprint/iteration objectives and user acceptance tests

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to prioritize the Product Backlog to maximize ROI

• Track Scrum team(s) delivery cadence

• Provide day-to-day tactical direction for the team and manage the sprint and cross project priorities

• Unblock and focus the feature teams throughout the release

• Manage defect scheduling in the backlog

• Communicate daily with the Product Manager

• Manage stakeholder expectations and keep them informed

• Define, communicate and reinforce the product/feature vision

• Collaborate with business stakeholders and the team to define and communicate the product roadmap

• Gathers requirements from stakeholders by gaining an understanding of the business problem and/or opportunity

• Collate, analyze and prioritize requirements

• Write well-defined User Stories/Use Cases and acceptance criteria

• Own the product backlog

• Enable incremental delivery of features over multiple releases, minimizing time-to-market

• Enable incremental feature development using Lean and Agile principles

• Prepare the product backlog for the upcoming 2-3 iterations / sprints

• Lead Sprint Planning meetings; explains feature priorities and requirements to the development team

• Lead the sprint review (demo) to provide fast feedback on sprint results

• Lead sprint retrospectives and contributes to continuous process improvement

• Collaborate with other Product Owners

• Prepare reports for management regarding project status  

• Available to the team and promotes collaboration

To be successful in this role you must be a critical and analytical thinker with the ability to prioritize and organize effectively. You must be an excellent communicator with story writing and splitting skills. Being a decisive, proactive, flexible and open minded negotiator with a good business sense is also key to success in this role.    

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or business related field

• Experience leading in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) program or portfolio environment 

• Understanding of system architectural components

• Understanding of Data Engineering practices for Data Science projects

• Experience with Cloud infrastructure and Cloud migrations

• Relevant technical or business work experience

• Understanding of ETL and data pipelines

• Good prioritization skills with focus on real business need and objectives

• Experience working with marketing, product management, data integration and operations

• Working knowledge of Lean and Agile values, principles and practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience SCRUM Product Owner certification a plus

• SCRUM Master and/or PMP certification a plus
  & services or other related industry experience

• Project management experience

• Experience with health care marketing products        

Additional Information/Requirements

Remote Requirements

All Humana associates approved for the Home or Hybrid Home/Office work styles are required to self-provide wireless, wired cable or DSL access to the internet at the connectivity speeds required by the company to successfully perform their job with the exception of associates who live or work from home in the state of Califor