Sr Product Owner (Enterprise Data Platforms)

Highmark Health

79d • $92,300 - $172,500

About The Position

We are seeking an experienced Sr Technical Product Owner/Manager to lead the technical delivery and stewardship of key data platforms. Highmark/enGen is embarking on rebuilding our data ecosystem with a modern hybrid iceberg data lakehouse at our core. To deliver this foundation, this role will be responsible for how data is globally registration, accessed, and delivered through a “Unified Access Tier”/ Semantic Layer for both humans, automation, and AI systems. In this role, you will be accountable for delivering the Unified Access Tier while continuing to engage in emergent areas of growth and innovation. You will understand the interdependencies of most all data and AI platforms and will be able to make trade-offs between speed, delivery, and excellence. You know that change does not happen without establishing key partnerships across technology teams you work directly with, maintaining trust and gaining commitment with engineering teams, and aligning all the work with key business stakeholders. You will clearly translate the value of every engineering activity into business value. On a daily basis, you will oversee priority, scope and validation of work that is required to deliver as a core foundational capability. These responsibilities require a deep technical understanding of data access, enrichment, catalog, and integration. You must be well versed in emerging best practices and data architecture patterns for modernizing with Iceberg format. You are a key strategic enabler, able to consistently deliver confident recommendations and tradeoffs to non-technical audiences, as well as the ability to articulate business strategies and operating models that unlock improved customer experiences and outcomes. To build trust and momentum, you will maintain transparency and alignment with cross functional leaders, manage stakeholder involvement, and support the engineering teams, products, and customers consuming your platforms at a global scale.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Engineering, or similar discipline.
• 5 years of Product Ownership, Strategic Consulting or Design Thinking OR Product Development & Management, Project/Program Management.
• 5+ years of enterprise platform product management experience and/or architecture driving transformation through data platform modernization.
• 2-5 years of Enterprise level experience with Semantic Layers.
• 2-5 years of data architecture experience including end-to-end data governance.
• Strong storyteller with the ability to present to executive leaders.
• Experience or knowledge of key technologies such as GCP ecosystem, Databricks ecosystem, Confluent Kafka, BigID, Atlan, Starburst, Tableau, SalesForce, and traditional operational systems.

Nice To Haves

• Experience from highly regulated industries (e.g., Healthcare, FSI, government).
• Experience with Starburst or Dremio.
• Healthcare experience integrating platforms and data like Facets, Availity, Kryus, HealthNow, NCompass.

Responsibilities

• Empower teams to manage their work by setting clear priorities and scope from the team backlog.
• Make trade-offs and negotiate with stakeholders based on team capacity to determine the backlog.
• Develop and maintain product delivery roadmap.
• Collaborate with stakeholders in the creation and communication of the product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Represent the product in mid-level governance meetings.
• Track and provide status to leadership.
• Effectively navigate both Product Management and Product Ownership roles.
• Utilize market trends and customer feedback to identify opportunities for product enhancements.
• Act as the voice of the user to drive the iteration of existing product features.
• Drive the product development process, from concept to launch, ensuring high-quality deliverables.
• End to end ownership over the delivery of new features and improvements to existing features.
• Key player in solution estimation.
• Servant-Leader for a cross functional team or teams with a portfolio of several products.
• Communicate product updates, progress, and challenges to executive leadership and other relevant stakeholders.
• Prioritize and own the team backlog of the work to be performed.
• Proactively identify new initiatives/themes working with clients and product management.
• Clearly communicate business friendly release notes with operational impacts and product issues to business stakeholders.
• Accept stories as 'done' from the team, ensuring that the stories have been developed, tested, and meet the defined acceptance criteria.
• Responsible for accuracy of team data representing targeted outcomes; OKRs and KPIs.
• Monitors and adds metrics to continuously provide stakeholders with an updated view of the product's success.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range of $92,300.00 to $172,500.00.
• Opportunities for continuous learning and improvement.
• Comprehensive health insurance and wellness programs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees