Medicaid Enterprise Services Product Owner

Description & Requirements

The Product Owner is an expert in translating strategy and business needs into product features.

They have expert skills with development and delivery of technical solutions, along with expert business acumen and communication skills.

They lead and drive outcomes for the Medicaid Enterprise solution delivery initiatives, nurture ideas and solutions to existing customer problems, and work closely with the development team throughout the development process.

The Product Owner leads and guides solution outcomes for the entire lifecycle of the initiatives (research, design, development, implementation, and validation).

They drive continual process improvement activities, guide engineers and analysts, review UI/UX design, conduct solution demos, and work with project clients, internal stakeholders, leadership, and technical development teams.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Conduct and lead data analysis, change impact analysis, investigate issues and defects, and manage backlogs.

- Lead agile team on sprint deliverables while identifying and implementing process and efficiency improvements.

- Collaborate with other organizations, Operations, and IT.

- Lead and conduct release activities, demos, acceptance testing, etc.

- Translate business needs into epics, features, user stories, and tasks.

- Review work of other product owners providing guidance where needed.

- Produce feature and release documents for presentations.

- Provide subject matter expertise for additional areas of strategic interest.

• Serve as business architect to define solutions that meet business requirements and desired functionality.

This is done in conjunction with the development team ensuring that technical solutions support business needs.

•Coordinate and collaborate with business/operations team members to understand client needs for products.

•Create and Manage backlogs, translate business needs into epics, features, user stories and tasks.

•Participate in review of work from other product owners to ensure consistent application of process and confirm that functionality which may impact multiple backlogs is fully captured in documentation.

• Conduct and lead data analysis, change impact analysis, investigate issues and defects.

• Lead team on sprint deliverables, identifying and implementing process and efficiency improvements.

• Lead sprint planning activities, collaborate with other organizations, Operations, and IT.

• Lead and conduct release activities, demos, acceptance testing.

• Produce feature and release documentation, documents for presentations.

• Collaborates with the management regarding progress and agile metrics.

Monitors outcomes, customizes and adds metrics to continuously provide stakeholders with an updated view of the product's success.

Evaluates agile metrics and discusses methodologies to deliver against outcomes.

Actively anticipates future needs and utilizes product health ...