Technical Product Owner - Evernorth

The job profile for this position is Product Management Advisor, which is a Band 4 Senior Contributor Career Track Role.

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JOB SUMMARY: The primary function/purpose of this job. TheTechnical Product Owner(TPO) owns all aspects of their technical products, leading business value creation and managing overall product health. The TPO understands business  and technology objectives, communicates the product vision and roadmap, and prioritizes and translates needs into requirements to ensure that expected outcomes are achieved.

Must be a current contractor with Cigna, Express Scripts, or Evernorth. Evernorth is a new business within the Cigna Corporation. This role is WAH/Flex which allows most work to be performed at home. Employees must be fully vaccinated if they choose to come onsite.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

1.Understanding Business Needs: Collaborate with disparate stakeholder groups to identify, understand, and capture the functional needs of product stakeholders and define non-functional  requirements to ensure value is delivered. Help the team demo completed work to product stakeholders. Own or contribute to the technical product roadmap.

2.Communicating Needs and Enabling Teams to Deliver Quality Products: Communicate business needs, write definition-of-ready user stories, and incorporate architectural changes recommended by engineering. Maintain groomed backlog for business stakeholder priorities, ensuring the greatest value is delivered soonest. Actively participatein team retrospectives, finding ways for the team to incrementally improve.

3.Make Teams Awesome: Leverages agility tools (e.g. Jira) and implements strategies to optimize team performance and achieve overall department objectives (e.g. manage story aging, manage WIP, epic size/throughput, etc.).

4.Delivering Iterative Value: Ensure team’s work creates iterative value (e.g. supports the completion of MVPs/Epics in concert with other teams). Plan delivery of iterative value with other TPOs and prioritize/groom backlog accordinglyto ensure highest level of quality. Manage unaddressed issues and determine resolutions.

5.Owning Product Health: Identify and monitor tech product health metrics (e.g. KPIs, defect trends, compliance and security) to ensure business outcomes. Ensure recommended amount of team capacity is utilized for improving technical product health and driving down technical debt (e.g. integration and deployment of tooling, test automation, etc.).10%

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Provide quantitative data reflecting the scope and impact of the job –such as budget managed, sales/revenues, profit, clients served, adjusted scripts, etc.

Contributes to the completion of specific programs and projects

Failure to obtain results or erroneous decisions or recommendation would typically results in serious program delays and considerable expenditure of resources

Formal Education and/or Training: Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent work experience

Years of Experience: 5-8 years relevant experience

Computer or Other Skills: Microsoft Office Agile requirement tools (JIRA, Rally, etc.)Collaboration tools (HipChat, Slack, Confluence, etc.)Diagramming and drawing tools (Visio, etc.)

Knowledge and Abilities: Experience writing user stories

Knowledge of user experience and solution design essential

High degree of comfort in fast-paced dynamic / ambiguous environment

Ability to balance technical knowledge with business possibility and acumen

Ability to work cross functionally with Compliance, IRM, Infrastructure, and Software Engineering

Passionate stakeholder advocate with ability to identify and meet customer needs within agile framework

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

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