Technical Product Owner (Agile, Azure, ETL) | TELECOMMUTE | UHG

Technical Product Owner – Optum Consumer Engagement Platform

Hours: 7am - 4pm EST

Role: Technical Product Owner – Optum Consumer Engagement Platform (a Communications Shared Service Platform).

Project: The Technical Product Owner will support a program that consolidates data and marketing functions into a central organization and platform.

Team: The Technical Product Owner will lead the priorities, feature and story definition for a 9 person scrum team. The Technical Product Owner will also participate in a more broad team leading the initiative.

Responsibilities:

• Ability to define features and break down features into user stories into enough detail that a scrum team can build, test and deploy the features. Develops use-case scenarios to illustrate user/market requirements.
• Establish feature priorities within the agile backlog using metrics associated with business value. Gathers and analyzes data to assess capability related Key Performance Indicators (KPIs); Provides facts and criteria to support decision-making;
• Ensures alignment with business stakeholders and works with cross-functional teams to execute;
• Takes feedback and works closely with internal client to problem-solve and translate feedback appropriately into backlog; Is able to describe learnings and impact to original plans.
• Combines relevant industry data and internal business metrics to clearly articulate ongoing business value of capability to deepen sustainable, productive relationship with internal clients and partners.
• Explains to peers and business clients how the capability maps to overall business strategy; Articulates the role the capability plays in delivering on the business strategy and future roadmap; Work output considers regulatory environment, sales, digital experience, and channel.

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree and/or 2 years of product or project development experience
• At least 1 year of experience in Product Management and/or Product Development
• Established background in launching software or services in partnership with engineering teams and high degree of proficiency in prototyping, iterative development, understanding of Agile principles
• Experience successfully driving end-to-end delivery of data and intelligence solutions, including a wide variety of mechanisms, e.g. dashboards, APIs, real time alerts, etc.