Agile Product Owner Advisor

Job Description

- Collaborate with disparate stakeholder groups toidentify, 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.

- 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. Activelyparticipatein team retrospectives, finding ways for the team to incrementally improve.

- Leverages agility tools (egJira) and implements strategies tooptimizeteam performance and achieve overall departmentobjectives(egmanage story aging, manage WIP, epic size/throughput, etc).

- Ensureteam swork creates iterative value (egsupports the completion of MVPs/Epics in concert with other teams). Plan delivery of iterative value with other TPOs and prioritize/groom backlog accordingly to ensure highest level of quality. Manage unaddressed issues anddetermineresolutions.

- Owning Product Health Identify andmonitortech product health metrics (egKPIs, defect trends,complianceand security) to ensure business outcomes. Ensurerecommendedamount of teamcapacityisutilizedfor improving technical product health and driving down technical debt (egintegration and deployment of tooling, test automation, etc).
- Dive deep into customer and system data to perform analysis. Define, track, and analyze key API usage, adoption, and performance metrics to provide strategic recommendations.

Experience Required:

- 11 - 13 years of work experience
- 5-8 years relevant experience ormastersdegree and 3-5 years of relevant experience
- Worked in a Scrum Master role for a software development team that has diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory
- Previouscoding experience preferred but not necessary
- Experience working intechnology( orin close engagement oncomponentpreferred
- Direct relevant work experience developing API and or data solutions, preferably experience withHealthcarestandards preferred, but notrequired
- Experience and knowledge of the big data landscape (egDatabricks, Spark, Cloud-based storage/compute/network infrastructure as we'll as data processing solutions on AWS,Azureor GCP)

Experience Desired:

- Experience in Jira and Confluence
- Health care domain knowledge is a plus
- Experience in Agile and working knowledge on DevOps tools
- Worked in a Scrum Master role for a software development team that has diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory

Education and Training Required:

- bachelors degree in related field or equivalent work experience
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) preferred, but not necessary

Primary Skills:

- 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 toidentifyand meet customer needs within agile framewor

Additional Skills:

- Exercises considerable creativity, foresight, and judgment in conceiving, planning, and delivering initiatives.
- Experience inMicrosoft Office
- Agile requirement tools (JIRA, Rally, etc)
- Collaboration tools (HipChat, Slack, Confluence, etc)
- Diagramming and drawing tools (Visio, etc)
- Applicable experience of technologies used by engineering teams,i.e.API, ETL, SQL, Python, Databricks, AWS, Json

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