Lead Product Owner

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts • Boston, MA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Ready to help us transform healthcare? Bring your true colors to blue. Your Day to Day: Define and own the product vision and roadmap for data governance capabilities, including data domain ownership, metadata management, data glossaries, and data quality. Partner with data product, data engineering, analytics, legal, compliance, and business teams across BCBSMA to implement governance roadmap Translate data governance road map into actionable workflows, pilot those workflows, and scale those workflows in collaboration with teams across the enterprise. Prioritize and manage the product backlog, ensuring timely delivery of high-impact features. Facilitate cross team discussions around understanding and making decisions about data quality issues Establish KPIs and success metrics to measure adoption and data quality improvements. Evangelize data governance best practices across the organization and foster a data-driven culture. This role is eligible for our Flex Persona for candidates local to our Boston, MA office. This document is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements, or working conditions associated with the job. Employees may be required to perform other job-related duties. We’re Looking For: Evangelize data governance best practices across the organization and foster a data-driven culture. Lead implementation and operationalization of a data accountability culture drive data governance model What You’ll Gain: Data governance is central to the effective operation of any organization reliant on data. By successful implementation of data governance activities you will support the more efficient operation of the enterprise and enable us to better serve our members.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience working in roles that require deep understanding of how data flows through systems and is governed
• Familiarity with data governance frameworks, regulatory compliance, and data lifecycle management
• Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong critical thinking and problem solving skills
• Experience working with healthcare data, and/or knowledge of the health insurance space
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional work in a highly matrixed environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or related field; advanced degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the product vision and roadmap for data governance capabilities, including data domain ownership, metadata management, data glossaries, and data quality.
• Partner with data product, data engineering, analytics, legal, compliance, and business teams across BCBSMA to implement governance roadmap
• Translate data governance road map into actionable workflows, pilot those workflows, and scale those workflows in collaboration with teams across the enterprise.
• Prioritize and manage the product backlog, ensuring timely delivery of high-impact features.
• Facilitate cross team discussions around understanding and making decisions about data quality issues
• Establish KPIs and success metrics to measure adoption and data quality improvements.
• Evangelize data governance best practices across the organization and foster a data-driven culture.
• Lead implementation and operationalization of a data accountability culture drive data governance model

Benefits

• We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), and a suite of well-being benefits to eligible employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees