Highmark Health · 3 months ago
Sr Product Owner (Enterprise Data Platforms)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$92K/yr - $172K/yr
5+ years expHighmark Health is seeking an experienced Sr Technical Product Owner/Manager to lead the technical delivery and stewardship of key data platforms. The role involves overseeing the delivery of a Unified Access Tier for data access and integration while collaborating with various stakeholders to drive product development and enhancements.
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Responsibilities
Empower teams to manage their work by setting clear priorities and scope from the team backlog. Make trade-offs and negotiate with stakeholders (e.g. Product Management, Program Management, business leaders, etc.) based on team capacity to determine the backlog. Develop and maintain product delivery roadmap
Collaborate with stakeholders such as external clients, product management, portfolio leaders, and others in the creation and communication of the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. Represent the product in mid-level governance meetings. Track and provide status to leadership
Effectively navigate both Product Management and Product Ownership roles, collaborating with external customers and the internal product team
Utilize market trends and customer feedback provided by stakeholders to identify opportunities for product enhancements. Act as the voice of the user, understanding their needs and challenges to drive the iteration of existing product features in collaboration with UX
Drive the product development process, from concept to launch, ensuring high-quality deliverables. End to end ownership over the delivery of new features and improvements to existing features. Key player in solution estimation
Servant-Leader for a cross functional team or teams with a portfolio of several products. Ability to work with agile program and team metrics. Empower team to manage their work by setting clear priorities and scope from the team backlog
Accountable for technology product value; comprehends and consults with business regarding their value realization
Province guidance and mentorship to Product Owners
Incorporate stakeholder feedback when needed and clearly articulate team backlog items and acceptance criteria to the team. Communicate product updates, progress, and challenges to executive leadership and other relevant stakeholders
Prioritize and own the team backlog of the work to be performed. This includes ensuring that the backlog remains sufficient to support optimal team allocation for multiple (3+) Sprints. Proactively identify new initiatives/themes working with clients and product management. Fully own resolution to backlog challenges including size (to support multiple Sprints), business priority alignment, and timely dispute resolution
Clearly communicate business friendly release notes with operational Impacts and product issues to business stakeholders
Accepts stories as “done” from the team, ensuring that the stories have been developed, tested, and meet the defined acceptance criteria
Responsible for accuracy of team data representing targeted outcomes; OKRs and KPI’s. Monitors and adds metrics to continuously provide stakeholders with an updated view of the product's success
Other duties as assigned or requested
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Engineering, or similar discipline
5 years of Product Ownership, Strategic Consulting or Design Thinking OR Product Development & Management, Project/Program Management
Preferred
5+ years of enterprise platform product management experience and/or architecture driving transformation through data platform modernization. An ideal candidate will have experience from highly regulated industries (ie Healcare, FSI, government, etc.)
2-5 years of Enterprise level experience with Semantic Layers. An ideal candidate will have experience with Starburst or Dremio
2-5 years of data architecture experience including end-to-end data governance. You will be able to articulate all the components and what a pragmatic approach to modernizing would look like for each of them
Strong storyteller: You are comfortable presenting to executive leaders that are both technical and non-technical. You likely have a story or two of how you brought leadership along to invest in core data platforms and how they impacted the business as much as they impacted technical capabilities
AI/GenAI: You're already leveraging these tools and know how they will fit into a data ecosystem, with specific examples for data governance as a driver and consumer
Experience or knowledge of key technologies in place today such as: GCP ecosystem, Databricks ecosystem, Confluent Kafka, BigID, Atlan, Starburst, Tableau, SalesForce, and traditional operational systems such as Hadoop/Hive, Teradata, Oracle, DB2, and others
Bonus points if you have healthcare experience integrating platforms and data like Facets, Availity, Kryus, HealthNow, NCompass, and others
Agile certification from a known vendor (Scrum.org, SAFe, Scrum Alliance, etc.), PMP, or similar relevant certifications, exhibiting continuous learning and improvement
Company
Highmark Health
Highmark Health is an integrated health care delivery and financing network.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (38)
2024 (34)
2023 (55)
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2021 (54)
2020 (58)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$6.75MKey Investors
Henry L. Hillman FoundationRichard King Mellon Foundation
2025-06-11Grant· $1.75M
2021-05-10Grant· $5M
Leadership Team
David Holmberg
President and Chief Executive Officer
Karen Hanlon
Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer
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