Agile Product Owner
| Company | Blue Cross Blue Shield |
|---|---|
| Location | Phoenix, AZ, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
Requirements
- 3 years of experience in healthcare or insurance field with emphasis on Business Analysis and/or computer technology including EDI
- 2 years of experience in a role with demonstrated ability to communicate with diverse groups of people inside and outside of the business
- 3 years of experience in decomposing high-level initiative information and evaluating the components to forecast work effort required
- High-School Diploma or GED in general field of study (All Levels)
- Achievement of agile product owner certification within 12 months of placement
Responsibilities
- Plan, direct, and coordinate projects to ensure goals and objectives are accomplished within prescribed time frames and funding parameters.
- Accountable for the product backlog and prioritization of user stories with team members
- Create business user stories
- Partners with Scrum master’s in supporting Scrum Framework
- Shares and decomposes Features into user stories (non-technical)
- Develop a deep understanding of the customer and product needs
- Recognized voice of the business to the team
- Works closely with project managers to represent capabilities and features at team level
- Ensures traceability between requirements to features to user stories
- Review of test cases against user stories acceptance criteria
- Periodically re-prioritize the Product Backlog based on customer feedback, market changes and business priority as communicated by the Product Manager
- Actively participates in Product Backlog grooming sessions, retrospectives, defect management and project team’s release planning sessions
- Accessible for the team to answer questions, and during Sprint planning sessions, and Daily Scrum
- Owns the continual acceptance criteria for business value story user stories
- Create and deliver presentations
- Lead, instruct, direct and check the work of other team members
- Provide input for team member performance reviews
- Formally accepts the user stories once all acceptance criteria are met
- Assist management in project support and project resource planning
- Facilitate and/or create new procedures and processes that support advancing technologies or capabilities
- Evaluate high-level project information and assess project components to forecast work effort required
- Ensure Service Level Agreements between department and operational or technical areas are met
- Provide peer-level review and mentoring to level 1
- Participate in corporate quality and data governance programs
- Perform all other duties as assigned
Preferred Qualifications
- 8 years of experience in healthcare or insurance field with emphasis on Business Analysis and/or computer technology including EDI
- 5 years of experience in a role with demonstrated ability to communicate with diverse groups of people inside and outside of the business
- 3 years of experience working with Agile / Scrum work environments as a product owner, writing user stories, and following the development process through user story acceptance (All Levels)
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business, or related field (All Levels)
- Agile Product Owner Certification