Senior Product Owner

Humana; Virginia; Remote; USD 95,000 - 131,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana is seeking a Senior Product Owner to convey the Medicaid product vision and roadmap to an Agile team, defining user stories and prioritizing the backlog. The role requires navigating moderately to complex issues, coordinating with Medicaid stakeholders, and driving delivery within established timelines.

You will document requirements, guide demonstrations for stakeholder feedback, and support testing activities.

Qualifications

• Experience leading an Agile product team and delivering working software.
• Proven ability to translate business needs into actionable user stories and backlog items.
• Strong communication and collaboration with stakeholders, developers, and testers.

Responsibilities

• Maximizes value of product created by Agile team.
• Liaises with Medicaid market stakeholders and the development team ensuring the right product is being built, in the right order, and by the deadline.
• Serves as the Agile team's primary contact for information, work prioritization, and decision-making.
• Facilitates weekly product backlog review and review of change requests, enhancements, and development items.
• Documents business requirements and builds functional stories and process flows that satisfy business needs.
• Supports SIT Testing and coordinates UAT with aligned partners.
• Plans upgrades and patches and aligns with business priorities.

Skills

Agile product ownership

Backlog management

Stakeholder communication

SDLC/Waterfall/Agile

Risk assessment

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Become a part of our caring community The Senior Product Owner is responsible for conveying the Medicaid product vision and roadmap to an Agile delivery team by defining user stories and prioritizing product backlog. The Senior Product Owner work assignments involve moderately complex to complex issues where the analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.

Become a part of our caring community The Senior Product Owner is responsible for conveying the Medicaid product vision and roadmap to an Agile delivery team by defining user stories and prioritizing product backlog. The Senior Product Owner work assignments involve moderately complex to complex issues where the analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.

The Senior Product Owner

• Maximizes value of product created by Agile team
• Liaises with Medicaid market stakeholders and the development team ensuring the right product is being built, in the right order, and by the deadline
• Serves as the Agile team's primary contact for information, work prioritization, and decision-making
• Makes decisions on moderately complex to complex issues regarding business approach for project components, and work is performed without direction.
• Exercises considerable latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignments
• Accountable for managing and prioritizing the team's backlog (New State Implementation, Market Migration, Run the Business)
• Facilitates weekly product backlog review session and review new change request, enhancements and development items
• Accountable for documenting business requirements. Understating and building functional stories and process flows, ensuring that design satisfies each business need
• Showcases demonstrations to receive feedback from stakeholder(s) on either a proposed design of a requested solution and/or allowing stakeholders to review a production ready solution end to end
• Supports SIT Testing through clarifications on requirements and coordinates UAT Testing with aligned partners
• Business planning for upgrades and patches
• Schedule will be Monday-Friday, business hours, primarily in Eastern Standard Time Zone

Required Qualifications

• 3-5 years experience of Systems Development Life Cycle, Waterfall, and/or Agile Development Methodologies
• 5+ years of experience in technology implementations and/or product/project management
• Problem solver who can find viable solutions that meets business needs, absent from all ideal tools and resources
• Experience facilitating presentations to stakeholders, presenting completed ideas and solutions
• Detail oriented with excellent organizational and project management skills
• Critical thinker who can anticipate team needs and take initiative to present ideas, ask the right questions and deliver the highest quality work
• Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks with concurrent deadlines
• Experience gathering market requirements
• Strong verbal and written communication, organizational, meeting facilitation, negotiation, follow-up, and problem-solving skills

Use your skills to make an impact

• 3-5 years experience of Systems Development Life Cycle, Waterfall, and/or Agile Development Methodologies
• 5+ years of experience in technology implementations and/or product/project management
• Problem solver who can find viable solutions that meets business needs, absent from all ideal tools and resources
• Experience facilitating presentations to stakeholders, presenting completed ideas and solutions
• Detail oriented with excellent organizational and project management skills
• Critical thinker who can anticipate team needs and take initiative to present ideas, ask the right questions and deliver the highest quality work
• Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks with concurrent deadlines
• Experience gathering market requirements
• Strong verbal and written communication, organizational, meeting facilitation, negotiation, follow-up, and problem-solving skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified SAFe® Product Owner/ Product Manager or equivalent
• Agile /Scrum certification (Agile Practitioner, Scrum Alliance, etc.)
• Experience in Healthcare Care Management Applications and Configurations

Work at Home Requirements: To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees’ ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees must meet the following criteria: At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is required; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested. In certain roles, the minimum recommended internet speed required by Humana may not be sufficient for business needs. Humana reserves the right to require associates to upgrade their internet service if necessary. Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.

Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Pay Range

The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.

$94,900 - $130,500 per year

This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.

Description Of Benefits

Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.

About Us

About Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer atHumana.comand atCenterWell.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.