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Premera Blue Cross · 6 hours ago

Agile Product Owner III

Mountlake Terrace WA

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$112K/yr - $190K/yr

5+ years exp

Premera Blue Cross is committed to improving customers’ lives by transforming healthcare. As an Agile Product Owner III, you will act as the voice of the customer within the Agile delivery team, elicit business requirements, and collaborate closely with delivery teams to ensure successful execution of product features.

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H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Act as the voice of the customer to the Agile delivery team by knowing the business strategies and requirements and representing them to the delivery team

Facilitate the relationship with the business partners and user community acting as a liaison and bringing their voice to the delivery team

Become a business expert with deep and broad domain knowledge

Lead collaborative decomposition sessions to identify high level scope of work across business and IT areas

Collaborate with Product Management to develop a roadmap of epics and features

Collaborate with business partners, IT partners and delivery teams to develop clear and concise documentation of customer objectives/value

Identify, refine and document business requirements in the form of epics, features and user stories with clear acceptance criteria and minimum viable product

Identify related user stories and epics and group them into themes as necessary and document the inter-relationship and associated business process flows as necessary

Actively collaborate with the delivery team in solution design and development

Coordinate with other Agile teams to ensure alignment on solutions, priorities and dependencies

Facilitate product and release demos, taking accountability for feedback and outcomes

Establish release criteria in coordination with Product Manager

Clearly communicate release content and value to business partners and IT leadership

Prioritize issues and collaborate to make decisions required to resolve them weighing the pros/cons, risks and dependencies

Leverage data to guide product strategy

Build and maintain product backlog

Identify ways to improve processes and accelerate value to our customers

Qualification

Agile development practicesBusiness systems analysisHealthcare industry knowledgeSQL for data analysisProduct development toolsCommunication skillsCollaboration skillsProblem-solving skills

Required

A Bachelor's degree in Information Systems or Computer Science or 4 years related experience

5-8 years of business systems analysis experience

Experience in a software development environment with Agile development practices, including Scrum and SAFe

Knowledge of project delivery models including Agile and waterfall

Preferred

Experience using AI to stand up new capabilities is strongly preferred

Experience using SQL for data analysis

Extensive knowledge of healthcare or health insurance industry

Knowledge of product development tools including Azure DevOps Services, Jira, Visual Studio, Confluence, and Product Plan

Experience building capabilities for Web-based or Mobile applications

Benefits

Medical, vision, and dental coverage with low employee premiums.

Voluntary benefit offerings, including pet insurance for paw parents.

Life and disability insurance.

Retirement programs, including a 401K employer match and, believe it or not, a pension plan that is vested after 3 years of service.

Wellness incentives with a wide range of mental well-being resources for you and your dependents, including counseling services, stress management programs, and mindfulness programs, just to name a few.

Generous paid time off to reenergize.

Looking for continuing education? We have tuition assistance for both undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Employee recognition program to celebrate anniversaries, team accomplishments, and more.

Commuter perks make your trip to work less impactful on the environment and your wallet.

Free convenient on-site parking.

Subsidized on-campus cafes make lunchtime connections with colleagues fun and affordable.

Participate in engaging on-site activities such as health and wellness events, coffee connects, disaster preparedness fairs and more.

Our complementary fitness & well-being center offers both in-person and virtual workouts and nutritional counseling.

Company

Premera Blue Cross

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Premera is a leading health plan in the Pacific Northwest, providing comprehensive health benefits and tailored services.

Founded in 1945

Mountlake Terrace, Washington, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://www.premera.com

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