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This leader will work with key business and IT partners to develop strategic plans for the technologies impacting the company. Works to deliver features defined for providing methodology process policies, practices, guidance and tools to the organization.
Job Responsibility
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 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
The position requires a full-time work schedule. Full-time is defined as working at least 40 hours per week, plus any additional hours as requested or as needed to meet business requirements
Perform all other duties as assigned
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
Nice to have
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
Advanced skill in use of office equipment, including copiers, fax machines, scanner and telephones
Advanced PC proficiency
Intermediate knowledge of BCBSAZ applications
Impeccable project leadership skills
Solid technical ability and problem solving skills
knowledge of internal departments and operations
Strong technical documentation skills and a strong ability to translate technical concepts so that they are easily understood by laymen
Mentor team members and peers
Ability to build lesson plans and deliver lessons to team members