Agile Product Owner Advisor

About Evernorth: Evernorth Health Services, a division of The Cigna Group (NYSE: CI), creates pharmacy, care, and benefits 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. Agile Product Management Advisor Product Owner Position Overview The Agile Product Owner Advisor will be responsible to provide the voice of the customer at the Scrum team level working as part of Systems Integration team. This individual will utilize their strong business and technical skills and experience to manage their teams intake of work, as well as prioritize delivery and maximize business value being delivered by their Scrum team. In addition, they must be able to work collaboratively as part of a larger technology organization empowered to analyze and deliver innovative solutions to the marketplace.The Product Owner will apply specialized product knowledge and expertise to understand business and technology objectives, communicate the product vision and roadmap, prioritize, and translate needs into requirements to ensure that expected outcomes are achieved. Responsibilities Understands key business objectives and strategy of the product (s) they support Builds trusted relationships with business and technology partners, collaborates across functional, operational, and technology groups to ensure the appropriate engagement Assists with key stakeholder negotiations, serves as the main point of contact to resolve escalations, remove impediments, and tackle conflicts Collaborates with business and technology product owners/stakeholders to onboard new initiatives Supports the development of specifications including the value statements and tech financial estimates Aligns with partners to understand capacity and ensure their prioritization is reflected in the teams backlog Maintains and refines the inflow of work to the team (product backlog) Comprehend and provide analysis, requirement solicitation, architecture and design support for scrum team(s) Sets and communicates the teams scope for the current iteration. Qualifications Required Skills: Associates/Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience 11-13 years of experience in technical project delivery Experience with vendor management in an onshore/offshore model. JIRA Familiarity Run Backlog Refinement Feature Decomp, Story Creation Sprint Planning Partner with the team and SM PI refinement PI planning PI Readout Required Experience & Education: Aptitude for gaining deep knowledge of the industry and business, and proactively using this knowledge to deliver meaningful results Ability to successfully facilitate collaboration across multiple functions, departments and levels. Excellent oral and written communication skills Strong interpersonal/relationship management skills. Strong time and project management skills. Experience in Agile tools (JIRA), collaboration tools (Confluence, SharePoint), Visio, ticketing systems (ServiceNow) Experience with Agile development; Agile certification is a plus (i.e. SAFe Product Manager / Product Owner) Familiarity with modern delivery practices such as continuous integration, behavior/test driven development, and specification by example. Ability to develop productive working relationships with both technical and non-technical partners Understands key provider data business objectives and strategy Experience in API Standards, Microservices Architecture and Cloud capabilities Experience in RESTful APIs and SOAP services and message formats such as JSON and XML Can consider 9 yrs experience. PO experience including JIRA work Experience leading Backlog Refinement, feature/story decomp, and managing Sprint and PI planning Experience delivering API solutions, knowledge of RESTful OR SOAP APIs and JSON/XML Format Database/data model experience including SQL skills Equal Opportunity Statement: Evernorth is an Equal Opportunity Employer actively encouraging and supporting organization-wide involvement of staff in diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts to educate, inform and advance both internal practices and external work with diverse client populations.

Location: Hyderabad, IN

Posted Date: 11/13/2024