Agile Product Owner Advisor

Role Title**:**Technical Product Owner** Advisor**

**Position** Summary**:
The Technical 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.

Job Description & Responsibilities:

- 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.
- 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 participate in team retrospectives, finding ways for the team to incrementally improve.
- 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.).
- 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 accordingly to ensure highest level of quality. Manage unaddressed issues and determine resolutions.
- 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.).

Experience Required:
11 - 13 years of work experience

5-8 years relevant experience or Master’s degree and 3-5 years of relevant experience

Previous coding experience preferred but not necessary

Experience working in technology or in close engagement on component preferred

Experience Desired:

- Experience in Jira and Confluence
- Health care domain knowledge is a plus
- Experience in Agile and working knowledge on DevOps tools

Education and Training Required:

- Bachelor’s 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 to identify and meet customer needs within agile framework

Additional Skills:

- Exercises considerable creativity, foresight, and judgment in conceiving, planning, and delivering initiatives.
- Experience in Microsoft Office
- Agile requirement tools (JIRA, Rally, etc.)
- Collaboration tools (HipChat, Slack, Confluence, etc.)
- Diagramming and drawing tools (Visio, etc.)

**About Evernorth Health Services**
- Evernorth Health Services, a division of The Cigna Group, creates pharmacy, care and benefit solutions to improve health and increase vitality. We relentlessly innovate to make the prediction, prevention and treatment of illness and disease more accessible to millions of people. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.