Lead Bioinformatics Product Owner

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Position Overview

The Lead Software Product Owner works in a highly dynamic environment engaging and coordinating the activities with internal stakeholders enterprise architects software developers quality assurance customer experience contractors and third-party vendors to drive flawless development of critical software products. This role will gather define and translate user needs and business requirements into viable software product requirements across the software development lifecycle. As we operate in a regulated Genomics CLIA laboratory producing clear and concise requirements and documentation is of the utmost importance.

This position requires significant experience and technical knowledge in developing complex and sophisticated clinical genomics software and proven success driving software development initiatives by collaborating with cross-functional team members (Clinical Development Laboratory Operations Medical Affairs Bioinformatics Engineer etc.) to ensure software product meet user and business needs. This person is comfortable with leveraging data to make product decisions and has proven experience analyzing and optimizing user experience and business processes. This person may lead and mentor junior product owners.

This position may be remote.

Essential Duties

Include but are not limited to the following:

• Serve as a central resource to evaluate develop and recommend technical software solutions during the product lifecycle throughout conceptualization product roadmap development execution and launch based on a deep understanding of business goals user needs and jobs-to-be-done.
• Proactively understand the current business processes and conceptualize innovative solutions to create efficiencies around them.
• Serve as a scrum Product Owner for software systems including but not limited to: creating software requirements managing a product backlog developing product roadmaps scheduling releases coordinating integration with other software systems.
• Create and deliver user documentation and end-user training if needed.
• Drive and track execution of product strategy and roadmap by creation of release plans and lead sprint grooming sprint planning and successful software delivery across multiple onshore and offshore scrum teams using Agile methodology
• Gather and define user needs business requirements and translate them into epics and a prioritized backlog of user stories with functional software requirements to guide software development to support clinical genomics sample-to-answer workflows.
• Analyze existing product requirements against unmet user needs current pain points and business opportunities and devise product growth strategies for implementation of new features and processes into the product lifecycle in the lens of excellent user experience.
• Analyze manage and track the status of requirements throughout the product and development lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and project team to define prioritize and complete software product strategy roadmap and product requirements.
• Produce flow diagrams process and dataflow maps wireframes and prototypes with detailed product requirements to facilitate a better understanding of end-user use cases pain points and opportunities to guide the software development team.
• Develop and deliver progress reports proposals requirement documentation user documentation and presentations to end-users stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Provide business area expertise to developers and software quality assurance (QA) during the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Provide insight to the Quality Assurance (QA) team to develop verification integration and validation test plans and protocols.
• Maintain business systems standards by applying Agile methods tools and processes as standard practice.
• Possess strong written and oral communication skills in communicating and collaborating with colleagues customers and external collaborators from a wide variety of scientific engineering operational and regulatory disciplines at many different levels.
• Work in collaboration with the team to create documentation for software development lifecycle (SDLC) and computer systems validation (CSV) efforts.
• Provide end-user support in response to service requests as needed.
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Uphold company mission and values through accountability innovation integrity quality and teamwork.
• Support and comply with the companys Quality Management System policies and procedures.
• Maintain regular and reliable attendance.
• Ability to act with an inclusion mindset and model these behaviors for the organization.
• Ability to work seated for approximately 50% of a typical working day. Ability to work standing for approximately 50% of a typical working day.
• Ability to work on a mobile device tablet or in front of a computer screen and/or perform typing for approximately 95% of a typical working day.
• Ability to work on a computer and phone simultaneously.
• Ability and means to travel 10% between local Exact Sciences locations.
• Ability to travel 10% of working time away from work location may include overnight/weekend travel.

Minimum Qualifications

• Masters Degree in Computer Science Biomedical Engineering Bioinformatics or field as outlined in the essential duties; or Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Biomedical Engineering Bioinformatics or field as outlined in the essential duties plus 2 years of experience in lieu of a Masters degree.
• 6 years of relevant professional experience as outlined in the essential duties.
• 5 years of experience in Agile/Scrum or equivalent software development lifecycle.
• Demonstrated ability to bring product/project to successful completion.
• Demonstrated ability to perform the essential duties of the position with or without accommodation.
• Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience in developing complex and sophisticated software and informatics solution to support next generation sequencing workflows.
• 1 years of managing and coaching a team.
• Possess excellent strategic and analytical capabilities and strong business and technical acumen.
• Exhibits effective communication through various forms or written and verbal communication to team members who come from a broad spectrum of disciplines.
• Technically competent with various software programs such as Jira Confluence JAMA Miro and Microsoft Office.
• Ability to work on multiple software development products/projects at the same time.
• Capacity to pivot promptly and efficiently when project adjustments and alterations arise.

Salary Range:

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