HIH - Agile product management associate advisor

Agile Product Management Associate Advisor

Position Overview

In this role, as an Agile Product Management associate Advisor you will act as the internal voice of the customer. This role will define system features, participate in validation and is responsible for the scope of work. 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.

In this role you will have the opportunity to exercise considerable creativity, foresight, and judgment in planning, and delivering initiatives. You will focus on providing thought leadership but works on broader projects, which require understanding of wider business.

Responsibilities

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

Produce clearly defined requirements that can be refined in user story format acceptable to stakeholders and scrum team resulting in a backlog depth of at least 1. 5-2 sprints of ready-to-work stories.

Develop in depth product knowledge for assigned product area

Establish positive working relationships with client, internal stakeholders and peers

Drive discussions effectively with parties to elaborate process flows, user stories, story mappings, acceptance criteria and success criteria.

Provide support to training and UAT with product capability details and other inputs as required.

Manage product goals and metrics for on time delivery.

Collaborate with stakeholders to prioritize backlog of user stories for initiatives and maintain product roadmaps accordingly on a regular basis (weekly).

Coordinate with Delivery Manager on delivery timelines for planned work.

Ability to influence and present on detail of assigned product initiatives and their status in a setting where external client representatives will be engaged.

Work confidently with the scrum team and BPOs to review targeted roadmap efforts for prioritization regularly.

Support stakeholders and drive preparation and alignment of objectives for quarterly planning events including completing decomposition of work for identified prioritized program epics and confirming work delivery timings from dependent teams.

Team leader of indirect reports and initiatives

Own the product development lifecycle of assigned product or capability areas, including status reports

Own the customer communication strategy for experiences

Understand technology systems and customer journeys impacted by product/capability area

Translate complex business objectives into effective communication strategies and agile implementation

Work collaboratively with cross-functional partners to deliver the business case via intake(s), prioritization, budget exercises, design solutions, journey mapping, capability build, adoption, production roll-out, benefit validation

Qualifications

Required Skills:

Agile experience required preferably Agile SAFe certified.

JIRA/Jira Align

Excellent Verbal and Written Communication skills

Ability to navigate difficult discussions using data as evidence for best next steps and resolution.

Ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders, execution team and peers.

Run Backlog Refinement

Feature Decomp, Story Creation

Sprint Planning

Partner with the team and SM

PI refinement

PI planning

PI Readout

Required Experience & Education:

8+ years of Years experience in software development or maintenance

College degree (Bachelor) in related technical/business areas or equivalent work experience.

Demonstrate ability to perform root cause analysis and suggest rectification options.

Strong verbal and written communication skills Should be able to provide technical and functional impact summary of the managed incidents.

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

Understands key provider data business objectives and strategy

Experience in API Standards, Microservices Architecture and Cloud capabilities

Experience in RESTful APIs and SOAP services and message formats such as JSON and XML

Product Owner experience including JIRA work

Experience leading Backlog Refinement, feature/story decomp, and managing Sprint and PI planning

Experience delivering API solutions, knowledge of RESTful APIs and JSON/XML Format

Location & Hours of Work

Full-time position, working 40 hours per week. Expected overlap with US hours as appropriate

Primarily based in the Innovation Hub in Hyderabad, India in a hybrid working model (3 days WFO and 2 days WAH)

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