Agile Product Owner Senior Advisor - HIH - Evernorth

Overview

Senior Product Owner advisor within an agile development team, managing the product backlog and aligning development efforts with customer needs and business goals for Evernorth Health Services.

What you'll do

• Align product goals with strategic business objectives to deliver meaningful value.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with business and technology partners, fostering cross-functional collaboration.
• Act as the primary contact for resolving escalations, removing impediments, and managing stakeholder negotiations and conflicts.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to onboard new initiatives and integrate them into the product development lifecycle.
• Support development of specifications, including value propositions and technical financial estimates, to guide delivery planning.
• Align with delivery teams to understand capacity and ensure prioritization is reflected in the product backlog.
• Own and refine the product backlog, maintaining a steady flow of well-defined work items for the development team.
• Analyze business needs and support requirement gathering, architecture discussions, and design decisions within agile teams.
• Translate business requirements into actionable features and define iteration scope to guide development.
• Participate actively in agile ceremonies and respond to team inquiries, clarifying features and acceptance criteria.
• Communicate the product vision and strategic decisions, reinforcing customer-centric thinking and business rationale.
• Conduct data analysis and profiling to support product decisions, including source-to-target data mapping and investigating issues using SQL, SAS, or Python.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in MIS, Business, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 14-16 years of experience in data analysis.
• Demonstrated experience as a Product Owner or in a similar role within Agile development environments, with a strong grasp of Agile principles, Scrum methodology, and modern delivery practices such as continuous integration and test-driven development.
• Proven ability to translate complex business needs into clear, actionable features and acceptance criteria, with a focus on customer-centric solutions.
• Aptitude for gaining deep knowledge of the industry, business strategy, and key data domains (e.g., provider data, claims, membership, benefits), and proactively applying it to drive results.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship management skills, with the ability to facilitate collaboration across functions, departments, and levels.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to influence and negotiate across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proficiency in Agile and collaboration tools (JIRA) with hands-on experience supporting agile ceremonies and backlog management.
• Advanced data analysis capabilities, including experience with SQL tools (e.g., Toad, SAS, Alation) and data profiling techniques.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate code, decode data issues, and support architecture and design decisions.
• Exceptional organizational and work management skills, managing dependencies, risks, and delivery timelines in dynamic, lean/agile environments.
• Required: data analytics platforms (Databricks and/or Snowflake), Python, DevOps, and basic cloud experience (AWS/Azure).

Nice to have

• Healthcare data domain experience.
• Agile certification (e.g., SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager).
• Cloud certification (AWS Cloud Practitioner or similar).
• Familiarity with cloud technologies and data warehousing.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, India.