Agile Product Management Senior Analyst - HIH - Evernorth

The Agile Product Owner Senior Analyst will be responsible to provide the “voice of the customer” at the Scrum team level working as part of Systems Integration team. This individual will utilize their strong business and technical skills and experience to manage their team’s intake of work, as well as prioritize delivery and maximize business value being delivered by their Scrum team. In addition, they must be able to work collaboratively as part of a larger technology organization empowered to analyze and deliver innovative solutions to the marketplace. The Product Owner will apply specialized product knowledge and expertise to understand business and technology objectives, communicate the product vision and roadmap, prioritize, and translate needs into requirements to ensure that expected outcomes are achieved.

Required Skills:

• Associates/Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

• 5-8 years of hands-on experience with Agile methodologies, project management, presentation skills.

• Experience with vendor management in an onshore/offshore model.

  • JIRA Familiarity

  • Run Backlog Refinement

  • Feature Decomp, Story Creation

  • Sprint Planning

  • Partner with the team and SM

  • PI refinement

  • PI planning

  • PI Readout

Responsibilities

• Understands key business objectives and strategy of the product (s) they support

• Builds trusted relationships with business and technology partners, collaborates across functional, operational, and technology groups to ensure the appropriate engagement

• Assists with key stakeholder negotiations, serves as the main point of contact to resolve escalations, remove impediments, and tackle conflicts

• Collaborates with business and technology product owners/stakeholders to onboard new initiatives

• Supports the development of specifications including the value statements and tech financial estimates

• Aligns with partners to understand capacity and ensure their prioritization is reflected in the team’s backlog

• Maintains and refines the inflow of work to the team (product backlog)

• Comprehend and provide analysis, requirement solicitation, architecture and design support for scrum team(s)

• Sets and communicates the team’s scope for the current iteration.

Required Experience & Education:

• Aptitude for gaining deep knowledge of the industry and business, and proactively using this knowledge to deliver meaningful results

• Ability to successfully facilitate collaboration across multiple functions, departments and levels.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Strong interpersonal/relationship management skills.

• Strong time and project management skills.

• Experience in Agile tools (JIRA), collaboration tools (Confluence, SharePoint), Visio, ticketing systems (ServiceNow)

• Experience with Agile development; Agile certification is a plus (i.e. SAFe Product Manager / Product Owner)

• Familiarity with modern delivery practices such as continuous integration, behavior/test driven development, and specification by example.

• Ability to develop productive working relationships with both technical and non-technical partners

• Understands key provider data business objectives and strategy

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