Product Manager/ Product Owner

Flexstaf IT; Toronto; Remote; CAD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Flexstaf IT is seeking a technical Product Owner to bridge business needs with technical execution in a fully remote role. You will elicit, analyze, and document complex enterprise requirements while designing scalable, end-to-end technical solution architectures for a large, custom application environment.

You will collaborate with stakeholders, product managers, engineers, and leadership to translate strategy into functional software systems, data flows, and enterprise processes.

Qualifications

• Experience in Health Benefits Administration or Health Claims Adjudication is mandatory.
• Proven expertise in software architecture patterns (RESTful APIs, SOAP) and enterprise architecture frameworks.
• Strong database analytical skills and experience.

Responsibilities

• Requirements Elicitation & Analysis: Partner with business stakeholders to gather requirements and translate into design documents, requirements, use cases, and technical specifications.
• Solution Architecture & System Design: Translate requirements into end-to-end technical solution architectures and design documents.
• Stakeholder Management & Advisory: Act as primary technical liaison between business units and IT engineering teams, communicating complex concepts clearly.
• System & Data Modeling: Create detailed process maps, data flow diagrams, ERDs, and UML diagrams.
• Gap Analysis & Technology Selection: Evaluate current architectures and recommend optimal software or cloud services.
• Implementation & Oversight: Guide development teams during execution, ensure adherence to design standards, and assist QA with test strategies and UAT.

Skills

RESTful APIs

SOAP

Database analysis

BPMN

Data modeling

Tools

Visio

Job description

We need someone who can act as a product owner, who learns the applications and the systems, understands how things work to a level of detail they can formulate the best/optimal design/technical solution and write specifications to instruct the developers on how to code, where to code etc. This will take a deep and detailed level of understanding of the software functionality. It is not a technical architect role where they will be involved in any real infrastructure decisions or applying external tools or software; it is very much understanding the current application framework and boutique custom functionality, database tables, stored procedures etc. to be able to write design changes to the application. It will take next level analytical skills and a dogged determination to learn.

Position Summary

We are seeking a technical Product Owner to bridge the gap between business needs and technical execution. In this hybrid role, you will be responsible for eliciting, analyzing, and documenting complex enterprise requirements while simultaneously designing scalable, end-to-end technical solution architectures. You will collaborate closely with business stakeholders, product managers, software engineers, and executive leadership to translate strategy into functional software systems and enterprise workflows. The primary claims adjudication application is a unique, large and complex custom environment which will take determination, drive and dedication to learn and understand well enough to be able to recommend and provide optimal design solutions. This process will involve a large amount of independent study and a strong analytics acumen.

Key Responsibilities

• Requirements Elicitation & Analysis: Partner with business stakeholders to facilitate workshops, gather business requirements, and translate them into clear Design documents and Requirements, use cases, process flows, and technical specifications.
• Solution Architecture & System Design: Translate business requirements into robust end-to-end technical solution architectures, high-level/low-level design documents, and integration workflows aligned with enterprise standards.
• Stakeholder Management & Advisory: Act as the primary technical liaison between business units and IT engineering teams, clearly communicating complex architecture concepts to non-technical stakeholders and business value to technical teams.
• System & Data Modeling: Create detailed process maps, wireframes, data flow diagrams (DFDs), entity-relationship diagrams (ERDs), and system interaction diagrams (UML).
• Gap Analysis & Technology Selection: Evaluate current-state architectures, identify operational or technical bottlenecks, and recommend optimal software, cloud services, off-the-shelf solutions, or custom software designs.
• Implementation & Oversight: Provide architectural guidance to development teams during project execution, ensure adherence to technical design standards, and assist QA teams in establishing test strategies and user acceptance testing (UAT).

Required Qualifications

• Experience: Health Benefits Administration or Health Claims Adjudication experience-MUST HAVE
• : Demonstrated expertise in software architecture patterns ( RESTful APIs, SOAP) and enterprise architecture frameworks
• Strong database analytical skills and experience.

Business Analysis Mastery: Strong track record in requirement engineering, process mapping (BPMN), gap analysis, proven ability to be an independent, driven, self-starter with strong systems and application analysis skills to determine how an application functions and how to apply functional enhancements and advanced design and product improvements.

Data Technologies: Solid understanding of relational/SQL Server databases, and API-driven integrations.

• Tooling: Proficiency with architectural modeling and design tools (Visio)
• Communication: Exceptional verbal, written, and presentation skills with proven ability to influence business executives and technical leads.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience driving legacy modernization projects
• Background in custom web application development, ERP/CRM integration, or data platform implementations.

Interviews: Virtual (MS Teams) - 2 rounds ( technical and HR)

Location: Fully Remote -Preference given to the GTA, then anywhere in Canada

Vacation: 3 weeks

Bonus: NA

Benefits: After 90 days

At the Offer Acceptance Stage, we require: RCMP Clearance Check and 2 completed reference checks