Agile Product Owner Lead Analyst - HIH - Evernorth

ABOUT EVERNORTH: 

Evernorth℠ exists to elevate health for all, because we believe health is the starting point for human potential and progress. As champions for affordable, predictable and simple health care,
we solve the problems others don’t, won’t or can’t. 

Our innovation hub in India will allow us to work with the right talent, expand our global footprint, improve our competitive stance, and better deliver on our promises to stakeholders. We are passionate about making healthcare better by delivering world-class solutions that make a real difference.

We are always looking upward. And that starts with finding the right talent to help us get there.

Position Overview

As a member of the DD&AE Technology Innovation Team, the Technical Product Owner is responsible for developing a deep understanding of new ideas, problems or opportunities and then working with engineering and architecture to generate solution ideas, design experiments, and prioritize execution of those experiments to drive to a working prototype, or a decision to move on to the next idea. The product owner will have a particular focus on identifying, articulating, measuring and proving out the value of a potential solution.

Responsibilities

Act as a technical product owner for Evernorth’s Digital, Data and Analytics Engineering Technology Innovation Team to break down, test, and learn to develop solutions for complex problems in the DD&AE organizationWork with Engineering to own and drive scrum or kanban ceremonies as agreed with teamAuthor and maintain documentation for the team and presenting to stakeholders, including mission, objectives, prototype/feature roadmaps, business requirements and functional specificationsWrite, prioritize, sequence, and accept features and tasks related to the concepts the team is working onDrive alignment on priorities and next steps across partner teams and/or vendors through demos, feedback loops, and trusting relationshipsOwn decisions on priorities, in collecting feedback and collaborating with business, engineering and leadership and understanding effort, dependencies, and valueLead the creation and maintenance of an innovation dashboard, collecting status and reporting on outcomes to provide insights and metrics that showcase efficiency and point to opportunities for improvementAs prototypes are successfully completed, coordinate handoff to other teams for production implementation, packaging documentation for knowledge transfers and allotting capacity to team for transition

Qualifications

Required Skills & Experience:

Bachelor’s degree with a business, management, and/or technical focus preferred5 to 8 years of experience in an Agile Technology organizationExperience driving agile and/or lean product development with demonstrated record of delivering incremental value within a larger solution or deliverableDirect relevant work experience developing data solutions, preferably experience with analytics or big data platform engineeringExcellent conceptual and analytical thinking and communication skills through whiteboarding, presentations, and written content creationAbility to think creatively about problems and try new things with a “fail fast” mindset

Nice to Skills & Experience:  

Experience and knowledge of innovation processes, best practices and workflowsFinance or Healthcare data and analytics industry experienceDemonstrated record of building data capabilities (vs. turn-key products) and communicating their value through solution selling or business value consultingUnderstanding of analytics and data science processes including model development lifecycle, model performance management and governance, and software development lifecycle

Location & Hours of Work

< >Full-time position, working 40 hours per week. Expected overlap with US hours as appropriate Primarily based in the Innovation Hub in Hyderabad, India in a hybrid working model (3 days WFO and 2 days WAH)Equal Opportunity Statement

Evernorth is an Equal Opportunity Employer actively encouraging and supporting organization-wide involvement of staff in diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts to educate, inform and advance both internal practices and external work with diverse client populations.

About Evernorth Health Services

Evernorth Health Services, a division of The Cigna Group, creates pharmacy, care and benefit solutions to improve health and increase vitality. We relentlessly innovate to make the prediction, prevention and treatment of illness and disease more accessible to millions of people. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.