Technical Product Lead

Humana • Louisville, KY

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About The Position

Humana is seeking an experienced IT Technical Product Lead to drive the strategy, development, and delivery of technology solutions that support business objectives. The role connects business stakeholders, solution architecture, and development teams, ensuring products align with organizational goals and are well-engineered and efficiently delivered. The ideal candidate combines strong technical expertise with product leadership skills and has a background in development, architecture, or another highly technical IT field.

The position owns product vision, strategy, and roadmaps for assigned IT products and platforms. It leads product lifecycle activities from ideation and planning through implementation and ongoing optimization, translating business requirements into technical requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria. The lead works with engineering and cross-functional partners to support secure, scalable, performant, and compliant solutions, manage priorities, coordinate releases, and communicate product progress and outcomes to stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• At least 2 years of experience in Product Management, Technical Product Management, IT Leadership, Lead Development, Solution/Application Architecture, or related roles.
• Strong understanding of enterprise applications, systems integration, APIs, cloud platforms, databases, ELT, and software development lifecycles.
• Experience working with Agile, Scrum, or SAFe methodologies.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Strong understanding of at least two of the following technologies: Snowflake, Databricks, RDBMS, SQL, and Python.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with project management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or similar.
• Proven experience managing product roadmaps and delivering technology solutions.

Responsibilities

• Participate in lightweight architecture, design, and code reviews.
• Define and own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for assigned IT products and platforms.
• Collaborate with business leaders, users, architects, developers, and infrastructure teams to gather and prioritize requirements.
• Lead product lifecycle activities from ideation and planning through implementation and ongoing optimization.
• Translate business needs into detailed technical requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure solutions meet security, scalability, performance, and compliance requirements.
• Manage product backlogs and prioritize initiatives based on business value, risk, and technical dependencies.
• Drive implementation and rollout of new applications.
• Serve as the escalation point for product-related issues and incidents, coordinating with business and development teams.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, and release coordination where applicable.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for stakeholders and provide regular updates on product progress and outcomes.
• Identify opportunities for automation, process improvements, and technology modernization.
• Support vendor evaluations, technology assessments, and implementation projects.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan.
• Paid time off and company and personal holidays.
• Paid parental and caregiver leave.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Life insurance.
• Bonus incentive plan based on company and/or individual performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level