Bcidaho Hiring for IT Product Owner – R2473-6334 at Meridian, Idaho Full Time

This job was posted by https://idahoworks.gov : For more information,
please see: https://idahoworks.gov/jobs/2060445 Our IT Product Owners
work with the technology delivery teams to further the objectives of a
product line or business unit capability. The Product Owners increase
the effectiveness and functionality of existing products and develop new
products for the organization.

In this role, you will develop and lead a product vision across a suite
of products and manage the product backlog for software delivery teams.
We ask that you mentor, coach and develop other product managers in the
organization, modeling ideal behavior and leading accountability and
standard methodologies. Our Product Owners collaborate with business
partners and the IT team to define and communicate the product roadmap
and lead sprint planning meetings and explain feature/story priorities
and requirements to the Agile team. In addition, you will define
sprint/iteration objectives; maintain planning around multiple horizon
planning timelines (iteration/quarterly/annually); prepare the product
backlog for the upcoming iterations/sprints; work with business partners
and EPMO to prioritize the product backlog to maximize return on
investment; write well-defined user stories, user cases and acceptance
criteria; drive preparation for Big Room quarterly planning; and prepare
for spring review and demo.

To be considered for IT Product Owner II, you must have the
following:

Experience: minimum 5 years’ product management, business analyst,
system analyst, project manager, agile, or relevant experience

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems,
Computer Science or other relevant subject area or equivalent
combination of education and work experience (Two years’ work
experience is equivalent to one year of college)

Having the following knowledge, skills and abilities will be the
foundation of your success:

Knowledge of:

• Widely used software development and project frameworks including
  Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, and iterative processes
• Thorough understanding of Software Development Lifecycle
• Product management techniques
• Team facilitation, requirement gathering and requirement
  documentation
• Backlog management and prioritization techniques
• Product road mapping, planning, lifecycle management, and product
  backlog development

Skills:

• Lead high-level requirements and vision through final delivery of
  working product
• Lead high-level vision and roadmaps and clearly articulate that
  vision to stakeholder audiences across the enterprise
• Excellent verbal and written communication to facilitate group
  discussions to desirable outcomes
• Analytical, strong critical thinking skills

Ability to:

• Drive working product to completion and elevate the output of the
  teams
• Rapidly absorb domain expertise
• Facilitate multiple product lines of related products and teams
  concurrently
• Look across delivery channels and forecast trends, issues, and
  create empirical measures for demonstrating value delivery
• Prioritize multiple sources of demand into a single vision and
  source of work for teams
• Applies effective listening, questioning and information gathering
  techniques
• Actively identifies areas of confusion and work to bring clarity of
  business requirements
• Use “enterprise thinking” to guide decisions (enterprise hat)

We’d also love it if you had:

• Certification in Agile / Scrum Frameworks, Certified Scrum Product
  Owner (CSPO), or Certified Scrum Professional (CSP)
• Healthcare Insurance background
• Understanding of data systems, relational databases, transaction
  types
• Familiarity with quality, regulatory industry practices, and
  insurance products

Reasonable accommodations

To perform this ob successfully, an individual must be able to perform
each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are
representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with
disabilities to perform the essential functions.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against
any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex,
age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity,
status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state
or local protected class.