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Lead Technical Product Owner

Humana
Work at Home - Kentucky, United States, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 24 Jul 2026
πŸ’° $173,700/yr($126,300/yr – $173,700/yr)

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The Lead Technical Product Owner serves as the bridge between business strategy, product vision, architecture, and engineering execution. This role is responsible for driving the technical product roadmap, defining scalable solutions, managing product backlogs, and ensuring successful delivery of complex enterprise capabilities.
The ideal candidate possesses a strong combination of product ownership, solution architecture, enterprise integration, and software engineering expertise. This individual will partner closely with business stakeholders, architects, engineering teams, and operations partners to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure technology solutions while continuously improving delivery efficiency through automation and AI adoption.

Key Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Ownership

  • Own and manage the technical product backlog, roadmap, priorities, and delivery commitments.
  • Translate business objectives into technical capabilities, features, epics, and user stories.
  • Drive backlog refinement, PI planning, release planning, and sprint execution activities.
  • Partner with Product Managers, business stakeholders, architects, QA, and engineering teams to ensure successful delivery.
  • Prioritize features, enhancements, technical debt, and operational improvements based on business value and risk.
  • Establish clear product goals, success metrics, and delivery milestones.

Technical Leadership

  • Act as the primary technical product owner for assigned products and platforms.
  • Lead solution architecture discussions and ensure alignment between design and implementation.
  • Define and review High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) artifacts.
  • Assess technical feasibility, dependencies, and implementation risks.
  • Collaborate with engineering leaders to establish scalable and maintainable solutions.
  • Drive modernization, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Enterprise Integration & Solution Design

  • Own end-to-end integration strategy across enterprise applications and platforms.
  • Define data flow architecture, API contracts, integration patterns, and interface specifications.
  • Ensure alignment between upstream and downstream systems.
  • Partner with architects and engineering teams to establish reusable integration standards and best practices.
  • Coordinate cross-functional efforts to deliver seamless customer and business experiences.

Production Stability & Operational Excellence

  • Own operational readiness, platform stability, and service reliability.
  • Lead incident triage, root cause analysis, and corrective action efforts.
  • Troubleshoot application and integration issues using logs, monitoring, and observability tools.
  • Ensure timely resolution of production issues and drive preventative improvements.
  • Partner with SRE, Operations, and Engineering teams to improve platform performance and reliability.

Quality, Security & Compliance

  • Ensure solutions meet enterprise non-functional requirements including performance, scalability, availability, security, and resiliency.
  • Drive secure design practices and ensure compliance with corporate security standards.
  • Validate authentication, authorization, and data protection requirements.
  • Support disaster recovery, business continuity, and audit readiness initiatives.

Testing & Release Management

  • Coordinate end-to-end testing strategies across multiple systems and teams.
  • Ensure release readiness through comprehensive validation and stakeholder alignment.
  • Support deployment planning, production cutovers, and post-release monitoring.
  • Partner with QA teams to improve testing automation and quality processes.

Consumer & Stakeholder Support

  • Lead or actively support consumer onboarding and enhancement requests.
  • Serve as the primary technical point of contact for stakeholders and partner teams.
  • Manage cross-functional dependencies and remove delivery blockers.
  • Help keep teams aligned, focused, and on track to meet comm

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