Lead Product Owner - Interoperability

Employment Type: Full time

Position Overview

Become a part of our caring community and help us put health first. The Lead Product Owner is responsible for conveying product vision and roadmap to an Agile delivery team by defining user stories and prioritizing product backlog. The Lead Product Owner works on problems of diverse scope and complexity ranging from moderate to substantial.

The Lead Product Owner maximizes value of Interoperability products created by Agile team. Liaises with stakeholders and the development team ensuring the right product is being built, in the right order, within budget and by the deadline. Serves as the Agile team's primary contact for information, work prioritization, and decision-making. Advises executives to develop functional strategies (often segment specific) on matters of significance. Exercises independent judgment and decision making on complex issues regarding job duties and related tasks, and works under minimal supervision, uses independent judgment requiring analysis of variable factors and determining the best course of action.

Use your skills to make an impact.

Responsibilities

• Lead dedicated Scrum team(s) through all SAFe Agile Ceremonies such as: Daily Stand up, PI Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, ART Synch, Scrum of Scrums, PO Synch, System Demo, Solution Demo, etc.
• Lead your dedicated scrum team(s) through quarterly on-site PI Planning.
• Create and refine user stories for the team and maintain a robust backlog ensuring adequate workload for dev team members.
• Prioritize and assign work for development team members based on Humana’s LPM (Lean Portfolio Management) strategy with a top-down value approach.
• Manage technical relationships with external E.H.R. Partners, internal dependent technical partner teams, consuming business owners and own the end-to-end delivery of technical solutions ensuring all parties involved are aligned with the delivery and timelines of the same.
• Manage internal communications with Interoperability Principal Product Managers, Lead Product Managers, IT Directors and AVPs, IT Solution Managers, Tech Leads, Solution Architects, Application Architects, Scrum Masters.
• Remove blockers and drive delivery of the technical solution for product initiatives.
• Lead communications and drive discussions with other Humana teams to achieve product team goals such as Humana’s PIRC (Protected Information Review Council) and Internal Business Leaders and stakeholders for consuming business teams such as Stars, MRA, Care Plus, Clinical and many more.
• Ensure the alignment of delivery timelines meets our strategic goals for Interop Products and our partners’ strategic goals.
• Decompose High Level Architecture and apply that understanding to the work breakdown and strategy for development and consumption.
• Stay apprised and understand Interoperability regulatory and compliance requirements from CMS distilling those into product technical requirements for development teams to deliver.
• Ensure maximum value is delivered to the enterprise through the work of the team(s).
• Function and acquire expertise across multiple Interoperability Product Areas, not just one.
• Develop subject matter expertise and share your acquired knowledge base with others who need to learn.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience in SDLC (software development life cycle) within Healthcare Product solutions, or other equivalent experience.
• Experience or understanding of Industry Standard HL7 FHIR formatting.
• Demonstrated ability to articulate ideas effectively in both written and oral forms, collaboration and team-building skills.
• Strong organizational skills; capable of handling multiple details simultaneously, with ability to move between strategic and tactical work in a dynamic environment with changing processes and priorities.
• Strong intuition about user experience and what makes a product experience great. Ability to unpack.