Agile Product Owner

Elevance Health•Tampa, FL

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Agile Product Owner Hybrid: This role requires associates to be in-office 1-2 days per week, fostering collaboration and connectivity, while providing flexibility to support productivity and work-life balance. This approach combines structured office engagement with the autonomy of virtual work, promoting a dynamic and adaptable workplace. Alternate locations may be considered if candidates reside within a commuting distance from an office. Please note that per our policy on hybrid/virtual work, candidates not within a reasonable commuting distance from the posting location(s) will not be considered for employment, unless accommodation is granted as required by law. Carelon, a proud member of the Elevance Health family of companies, is a healthcare services organization that takes a whole-health approach to making care more integrated, personalized, and affordable. We put people at the center—connecting physical, behavioral, social, and pharmacy services, along with clinical expertise, research, operations, and advanced technology to help care work better, together. Among us are specialty-care physicians, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, engineers, data scientists, and other dedicated and caring health professionals. While our roles may differ, our purpose is shared: to make a positive impact on whole health. The Agile Product Owner is responsible for acting as a member of the Agile leadership team and is the functional and/or client (or business) representative for a project or set of projects within a market-focus.

Requirements

Requires a BA/BS and minimum of 3 years experience with writing business/functional requirements and experience implementing Agile methodologies; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Nice To Haves

Leading SAFe (SA) certification, CSPO or equivalent (Certified Scrum Product Owner) and/or SPO/PM (SAFE Product Owner/Product Manager).
Experience delivering products in an Agile/Scrum environment.
Experience in healthcare domain (preferred), including regulatory or data-sensitive environments.
Proven track record of working closely with Product Managers, Scrum Masters, and Development Teams.
Strong understanding of Agile frameworks, especially SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), expertise in writing clear, concise user stories and defining acceptance criteria, experience in managing and prioritizing product backlogs, ability to translate features into technical deliverables
Ability to leverage AI tools such as ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, or similar to improve productivity, documentation, and workflow efficiency
Strong understanding of data ecosystems, including: Data ingestion pipelines. Data transformation processes. Data egress / integration frameworks.
Familiarity with APIs, data workflows, and system integrations.
Skilled in working with technical teams on architecture-level discussions.

Responsibilities

Act as a member of the Agile leadership team and is the functional and/or client (or business) representative for a project or set of projects within a market focus.
Translate features into user stories within a team’s backlog and manage ranking and prioritize this backlog so that it is reflective of stakeholder requirements and priorities.
Effectively communicate stakeholders’ need to the Agile team to ensure delivery meets both contractual requirements and established acceptance criteria including expected quality and performance, and to complete various work management activities according to defined service level commitments and process compliance guidelines.
Collaborate with team(s) to discover and deliver the best solution to the market problem(s) presented by the Product Manager (business).
Work with the Product Managers to understand, rank, and prioritize business needs and plan solutions to ensure that each release provides business value to end users, sales, and marketing.
Maintain the implementation cadence regularly aligned with the solution vision roadmap and backlog of work through the project's life cycle.
Understand how to write user stories and their acceptance criteria.
Translate the product backlog into user stories.
Review and accept/reject results both during a Sprint and in the Sprint review.
Attends Sprint meetings and is available to the team during the Sprint for clarifications and acceptance of user stories.
Input into a project’s release plan into a project's release plan.
Present work to team from Team Backlog during Sprint Planning for acceptance by the Team, Sprint negotiates, and Sprint goals.