Urgent: Product Owner / Remote / Contract

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Titlle: Product Owner
Position Type: Contract
Location: Remote, United States
Description:
Interview : Phone and skype

Visa : All ( USC, GC, GC EAD preferred )

Description:

Must have the Azure cloud experience.

Notes from Manager meeting below:

1. This is on the datahub team. They are starting a replatform project and migrating to a hosted platform in Azure. For this reason, the person needs AKS experience (Azure Dev Ops and Kubernetes). This is from a PO standpoint, not as a developer or anything. They will work with a team of 5 devs.
2. They will handle Scrum ceremonies and act as the Scrum Master as this team doesn't have one. (Sprint planning, champion the project, etc.)
3. They will work with vendors and other teams
4. They need to hit the ground running and create epics and features and create user stories.
5. They would love someone with SQL experience with healthcare exposure.
6. They need to have worked within the dev ops space before, ideally working in Azure.

Job Summary:
As a Product Owner III, you will act as voice of the customer within the agile delivery team. Eliciting and documenting business requirements in the form of epics, features and user stories. You are instrumental in driving collaboration and communication across delivery teams. As a product advocate, you will create, maintain, and outline work in the product backlog, determining which work items will produce the most business value and prioritizing those deliverables. You will develop and maintain strong relationships with business partners to help ensure stakeholder buy-in and drive innovation through analysis of moderately complex customer problems.
What they will do:
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• Act as the voice of the customer to the Agile team. Understand the business and product strategies and represent them to the agile team. Facilitate the relationship with the business partners and user community, bringing their voice to the agile team. Demonstrates business and product expertise with deep domain knowledge. Act as a liaison with business stakeholders by planning, conducting and leading analysis efforts for new product implementations. Lead agile team backlog refinement sessions to identify scope of work.
• Collaborate with Chief Product Owner and other Product Owners to develop a roadmap of features and user stories. Collaborate with business partners, IT partners and agile teams to develop clear and concise measurable outcomes and business value; Identify, define, write, and refine, business requirements in the form of features and user stories with clear acceptance criteria. Actively collaborate with the agile team through solution design and development. Coordinate with other Product Owners to ensure alignment on solution, priorities, and dependencies. Manage user acceptance testing. Approve and accept business user stories, enablers, and tech debt product backlog items (PBIs). Facilitate product and release demo, taking accountability for feedback and outcomes. 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.
• May lead or guide user acceptance testing with end users.
• Build Own, maintain, prioritize, optimize, and sequence the integrated team (PBI) backlog in collaboration with Engineers and other stakeholders. Prioritize backlog of user stories in alignment with product roadmap. Collaborate with the agile team on a regular cadence to refine the backlog. Collaborate with the agile team to identify dependencies on other teams. Coordinate dependencies with other Product Owners in preparation for Program Increment planning. Provide guidance in assessing Product opportunities and risks and utilize KPIs and metrics to optimize product.
• Identify ways to improve processes and accelerate value to our customers. Identify ways to continually improve on quality standards. Identify opportunities to improve efficiency.

What they will bring:
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• Bachelor's degree in information systems or computer science or equivalent.
• Five (5) years of business systems analysis experience.
• Experience in a software development environment with Agile development practices, including Scrum and SAFe. Knowledge of Agile delivery models (Preferred.)
• Experience using SQL for data analysis (Preferred.)
• Knowledge of healthcare or health insurance industry (Preferred.)
• Knowledge of product development tools including Azure DevOps Services, Visual Studio, Confluence, and Product Plan (Preferred.)
• Customer-focused, with demonstrated ability to understand and prioritize work according to the strategic impact/value and achieve concreate results.
• Demonstrates accountability and delivering results within a self-organized team environment.
• Detailed understanding of business and product strategies within aligned domain; clearly explains them to the agile team.
• A trusted advisor for both business and IT stakeholders; provides a sustainable, high level of stakeholder partnership.
• Aligns to established quality expectations and incorporates functional and non-functional quality measures into requirements; ability define and lead user acceptance testing process.
• Promotes teamwork; works well as a member of a team as well as successfully facilitating collaboration within the agile team.
• Experience defining software requirements for moderately complex products/solutions; working knowledge of analytical tools, relational databases, and software applications; proven ability to analyze moderately complex data and business processes.
• Ability to communicate effectively and professionally, both orally and in writing, to a wide range of audiences, including business and IT leadership both inside and outside the department.
• Makes well-informed tactical-level decisions based upon a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment.
• Strong problem solving and root cause analysis skills, demonstrated ability to proactively prevent problems from occurring and work issues to resolution.
• Strong facilitation skills; ability to facilitate medium to large group discussions to achieve defined outcomes; leverages a variety of facilitation techniques depending on the specific needs of the audience and topic.
• Comfortable with change or uncertainty; Ability to bring clarity to ambiguous moderately complex requirements or scenarios.
• Reinforces and helps build a positive agile team culture and addresses issues that disrupt the team.

 
Regards,

Muskan Sharma



ShiftCode Analytics Inc.,




5118 Sylvester loop Tampa,




Florida 33610




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Email: msharma@shiftcodeanalytics.com


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