Job Description

enGen Product Owner

This job is accountable for the development and product ownership of a service and or analytic product within the Medicaid IT organization with a unique focus on the applicable business unit. The Product Owner is the primary point of contact to agile, large cross-functional teams on behalf of the customer to identify the product requirements for development. The candidate is accountable for the product's ability to produce business value by focusing on the translation of strategy to agile execution. Oversees priority, scope and the validation of work that is required in order to deliver a quality product. Will need a deep understanding of the product, the market, business strategy and operating model. Accountable for the alignment with product management leadership, direct stakeholder involvement and support of the primary business objectives for the organization.

Essential Responsibilities

• Contributes to streamlining the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the features or components for the Scrum team.
• Manages, understands and supports prioritized Portfolio and Value Stream work by collaborating with stakeholders such as: Business Owners, Solution Architect, Data Architect, Product Manager, Scrum Team and others to breakdown features into user stories. Act as a bridge to connect the product and development teams by translating the Business vision into business and functional requirements for the teams. This will allow the teams to work with a heavy focus on user outcomes. Key player in solution estimation.
• Maintain a well refined and prioritized backlog sufficient to support optimal team allocation for multiple (3+) Sprints including acceptance of stories and enforcing definition of ready and definition of done (backlog health). Recommend resolution paths to domain leadership when/if backlog health becomes insufficient.
• Responsible for the acceptance of stories as "Done" from the team, ensuring that the stories have been developed, tested, and meet the defined acceptance criteria
• Collaborate as needed with stakeholders (e.g. Product Management, business leads, etc.) in the creation, maintenance, and communication of the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. Represent the product in team or minor level governance meetings. Track and provide status to leadership. Perform work necessary with Business and product managers to learn about what problems they are aiming to solve with the product.
• Collaborate with external vendors to align roadmaps, ensuring delivery execution and scope alignment. Work on cross-functional teams, leveraging agile program and team metrics to drive success.
• Contributes to the generation of a high-level release plan with the team. Continually re-prioritize team's tasks based upon new information, discussions with stakeholders, and probability to drive business outcomes. Develop and maintain product delivery roadmap. Effectively communicate product release contents and expected product capabilities/behavior to stakeholders.
• Write clearly defined user stories for new product features, issues and future enhancements. Work with the Scrum team to define and implement improvement stories that will increase the quality of the program.
• Review, update and sign off on test scripts for both in-track and regression testing, ensuring full coverage of the user stories.
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

Education

Required

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Healthcare Discipline, Information Management, or closely related field

Substitutions

• None

Preferred

• Master's Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Healthcare Discipline, or Information Management

Experience

Required

• 3 years experience in Product Ownership, Product Development & Management, Project/Program Management in an Agile environment
• 3 years experience working with external clients/fostering positive relationships and outcomes

Preferred

• None

Licenses or Certifications

Required

• None

Preferred

• Agile certification from a known vendor (Scrum.org, SAFe, Scrum Alliance, etc.)

Skills

• Communication skills, ability to work in matrixed organization
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications
• Backlog management
• Ability to plan work based on team sizing estimation
• Ability to serve as product owner for multiple teams / products
• Ability to prioritize across stories / resources / teams / products
• Agile Scrum and Kanban methodologies
• Able to problem solve in conjunction with distilling research and applying to reach a relevant and beneficial solution

Languages (Other than English)

None

Travel Required

None

Physical, Mental and Working Conditions

Position Type

Office Based

Teaches / trains others regularly

Occasionally

Travel regularly from the office to various work sites or from site-to-site

Rarely

Works primarily out-of-the office selling products/services (sales employees)

Never

Physical work site required

No

Lifting: up to 10 pounds

Constantly

Lifting: 10 to 25 pounds

Occasionally

Lifting: 25 to 50 pounds

Never

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