Agile Product Owner Senior SIU

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Agile Product Owner Senior

Location: This role requires associates to be in-office 1 - 2 days per week fostering collaboration and connectivity while providing flexibility to support productivity and work-life balance. This approach combines structured office engagement with the autonomy of virtual work promoting a dynamic and adaptable workplace. Alternate locations may be considered if candidates reside within a commuting distance from an office.

Please note that per our policy on hybrid/virtual work candidates not within a reasonable commuting distance from the posting location(s) will not be considered for employment unless an accommodation is granted as required by law.

TheAgile Product Owner Senioris responsible for acting as a member of the Agile leadership team. The Agile Product Owner Senior will serve as the functional and/or client (or business) representative regarding the development of new and enhancement of existing products in both new and existing markets in support of the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) business unit as part of Payment Integrity. Paying claims accurately is a critical part of what we do at Carelon and Elevance Health as we look to improve the cost and experience across the healthcare continuum.

How you will make an impact:

• Serve as the customer proxy and liaison between the business and the Scrum Teams translating features into complex user stories within a teams backlog managing ranking and prioritizing this backlog so that it reflects stakeholder requirements and priorities.
• Final testing and acceptance of the user stories supporting the features.
• Effectively communicate stakeholder needs to the team to meet both contractual requirements and established acceptance criteria including expected quality and performance and complete various work management activities according to defined service level commitments and process compliance guidelines.
• Collaborate with team(s) to discover and deliver the best solution to the market problem(s) presented by the Product Manager (business).
• Work with the business to understand coordinate ranking and prioritize business needs and plan solutions to ensure that each release provides business value to end users sales and marketing.
• Manage the solution concept development process to ensure the product team understands the direction and vision.
• Create and maintain a regular backlog of work through the projects life cycle.
• Understand how to write user stories and their acceptance criteria.
• Translate the product backlog into user stories.
• Serve as the Product Management (business) proxy and decision point to represent the stakeholders in the project.
• Review and accept/reject results both during a Sprint and in the Sprint review.
• Attend sprint meetings and is available to the team during the sprint for clarifications and acceptance of user stories.
• Create and/or input into a projects release plan.
• Present work to the team from Team Backlog during Sprint Planning for acceptance by the Team Sprint negotiates and Sprint goals.

Minimum Requirements:Requires a BA/BS and minimum of 5 years experience with writing business/functional requirements and experience implementing Agile methodologies; or any combination of education and experience which would provide an equivalent background.

Preferred Skills Capabilities and Experiences:

• Leading SAFe (SA) certification CSPO or equivalent (Certified Scrum Product Owner) and/or SPO/PM (SAFE Product Owner/Product Manager) strongly preferred.
• Payment Integrity experience strongly preferred.
• Experience with Aha and Jira strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in developing new products by identifying innovative solutions and successfully addressing client and business needs or challenges strongly preferred.
• Microsoft Office suite of products including PowerPoint.

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Who We Are

Elevance Health is a health company dedicated to improving lives and communities and making healthcare simpler. We are a Fortune 25 company with a longstanding history in the healthcare industry looking for leaders at all levels of the organization who are passionate about making an impact on our members and the communities we serve.

How We Work

At Elevance Health we are creating a culture that is designed to advance our strategy but will also lead to personal and professional growth for our associates. Our values and behaviors are the root of our culture. They are how we achieve our strategy power our business outcomes and drive our shared success - for our consumers our associates our communities and our business.

We offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include merit increases paid holidays Paid Time Off and incentive bonus programs (unless covered by a collective bargaining agreement) medical dental vision short and long term disability benefits 401(k) match stock purchase plan life insurance wellness programs and financial education resources to name a few.

Elevance Health operates in a Hybrid Workforce Strategy. Unless specified as primarily virtual by the hiring manager associates are required to work at an Elevance Health location at least once per week and potentially several times per week. Specific requirements and expectations for time onsite will be discussed as part of the hiring process.

The health of our associates and communities is a top priority for Elevance Health. We require all new candidates in certain patient/member-facing roles to become vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza. If you are not vaccinated your offer will be rescinded unless you provide an acceptable explanation. Elevance Health will also follow all relevant federal state and local laws.

Elevance Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age citizenship status color creed disability ethnicity genetic information gender (including gender identity and gender expression) marital status national origin race religion sex sexual orientation veteran status or any other status or condition protected by applicable federal state or local laws. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact for assistance. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal state and local laws including but not limited to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act.

Prospective employees required to be screened under Florida law should review the education and awareness resources at HB531 Florida Agency for Health Care Administration.

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