Lead Product Manager - Technical
About The Position
The Lead Product Manager, Technical is responsible for defining and driving product strategy, roadmaps, priorities, and execution for Humana's Health Data Exchange (HDX) modernization initiatives. The role transforms legacy healthcare transaction processing and integration capabilities into modern, cloud-native solutions, aligning technology investments with business priorities and measurable outcomes. The position works closely with business stakeholders, architects, and engineering teams to translate strategic objectives into actionable product plans and technical requirements. It prioritizes modernization investments and delivery work while balancing business needs, technical considerations, dependencies, and timelines. The role drives platform simplification and modernization to improve scalability and operational efficiency, and ensures delivered capabilities achieve their intended business outcomes. This is a hybrid position based in Louisville, Kentucky, or Nashville, Tennessee. Candidates must live within reasonable commuting distance of one of these locations and be able to work onsite as required.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, Healthcare Informatics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 5 years of enterprise experience in product management, business analysis, technology delivery, or a related discipline.
- At least 3 years of experience in application development.
- Experience managing priorities, requirements, or product backlogs.
- Working knowledge of .NET/C#, SQL Server, REST APIs, API gateways, service and integration patterns, and data dependencies.
- Understanding of on-premises and cloud-native architectures, containerization technologies such as Kubernetes, service decoupling, and legacy application modernization.
- Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to translate business needs into actionable technology solutions.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting modernization, digital transformation, or cloud initiatives.
- Experience working with Agile delivery teams.
- Healthcare, payer, EDI, or interoperability experience.
- Experience partnering with engineering and architecture teams on technical solutions.
Responsibilities
- Define and manage modernization roadmaps and priorities for HDX initiatives.
- Prioritize work based on business value, dependencies, and strategic objectives.
- Drive platform simplification and modernization efforts to improve efficiency and reduce complexity.
- Partner with architects and engineers to translate business needs into technical requirements.
- Manage product backlogs, requirements, and priorities.
- Balance business needs, technical constraints, and delivery timelines.
- Collaborate with business, technology, and operational stakeholders to align priorities.
- Communicate roadmap progress, risks, and recommendations.
- Ensure delivered capabilities achieve intended business outcomes.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan.
- Paid time off, company holidays, and personal holidays.
- Paid parental and caregiver leave.
- Short-term and long-term disability.
- Life insurance.
- Bonus incentive plan based on company and/or individual performance.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
