Agile Product Owner Lead Analyst Cigna Healthcare

About Cigna:

Cigna Healthcare is a global health service company dedicated to transforming healthcare. With roots in the U.S. and operations in over 30 countries we serve more than 180 million customers and patients worldwide. Ranked 13th on the Fortune 500 in 2025 Cigna is recognized as one of the most trusted and influential names in the industry.

Our mission is to improve the health well-being and peace of mind of those we serve.

Join our globally recognized brand where trust communication and a positive culture are at the core of everything we do. Our leadership is consistent approachable and supportive-ensuring your well-being and work-life balance.

Were looking for individuals who thrive in collaborative environments are passionate about meaningful change and want to grow in a company that puts people first.

At Cigna youll be part of a purpose-driven team that values innovation compassion and impact. Whether youre shaping better care experiences or supporting customers through lifes key moments your work will matter.

Grow with us-and help shape the future of healthcare.

Role Purpose:

The Product Owner is accountable for maximizing value delivery at the Scrum Team level by translating product strategy and priorities into high-quality executable backlog items. Working in close partnership with the Agile Product Manager (APM) the Product Owner ensures customer needs business outcomes and delivery commitments are effectively balanced and realized through predictable high-quality delivery. The Product Owner acts as the voice of the customer for the Scrum Team and plays a critical role in enabling continuous improvement and value realization.

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Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the Agile Product Manager to support product vision roadmap and outcomes aligned with business strategy and customer needs.

• Ensure delivery progress and milestones are visible to keep roadmaps relevant and timely.

• Act as the voice of the customer for the Scrum Team ensuring backlog priorities reflect customer value.

• Translate release train backlog priorities into clear value-focused team backlog priorities.

• Support Agile Product Manager in the refinement of features.

• Lead the decomposition of features into user stories and ensure ongoing refinement with developers testers and business subject matter experts.

• Own Jira backlog quality and approve user stories before moving to Done/Accepted.

• Lead PI planning cycles and objectives to enable predictable execution at team level.

• Collaborate with Scrum Master QA and UAT teams to track delivery quality and predictability metrics.

• Ensure analytics are in place to monitor utilization customer experience and delivery performance.

• Share actionable insights with the Agile Product Manager to drive product evolution and improvement.

• Foster a growth mindset and a psychologically safe team culture.

• Demonstrate an Agile mindset focused on learning feedback and value validation.

• Partner with stakeholders to maintain alignment and manage dependencies.

• Drive continuous improvement through data-informed decision making.

• Collaborate with Customer Experience and UX/UI design teams to ensure the customer voice isembeddedat all stages of the product delivery cycle. (include where applicable for external product and user feedback loop needs)

Required Competencies:

• Strong business and delivery acumen.

• Customer-centric mindset and empathy.

• Ability to translate strategy into executable outcomes.

• Ownership accountability and attention to quality.

• Collaboration and stakeholder management skills.

• Continuous improvement and data-driven mindset.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelors Degree required

• Strong English language skills required

• Experience working in JIRA tool or an equivalent (preferred)

• Knowledge of agile methodology preferred/required (depending on needs but candidate must either have deep industry / business experience OR Agile delivery experience)

• Experience within healthcare preferred preferred/required (depending on needs but candidate must either have deep industry / business experience OR Agile delivery experience)

• Both technically deep and business savvy enough to interface with cross-functional partners

• Proven ability to develop strong working relationships and establish a high level of credibility across functional and lines of business

• High attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously

• Demonstrates strong decision-making skills and problem-solving techniques

• Demonstrates ability to work independently and as part of a collaborative team in a fast paced and changing environment

• Strong adaptive capability; ability to approach problems pragmatically and creatively in the phase of changing circumstances resources and direction

• Some degree of flexibility to work with International Health stakeholders across multiple regions and time zones

• Agile Certification: SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager (pre or post hire)

Additional Responsibilities:

• Combines perspectives from the products customers data & analytics operations technology and regulation to deliver balanced and effective solutions in collaboration with the Product Manager.

• Considers a range of data and technology solutions making assessments about the value and tradeoffs of each approach across multiple dimensions including business value delivery speed technical considerations and regulatory considerations.

Additional Qualifications:

• Technical competence in data analysis data pipelines APIs machine learning and/or generative AI and/or the regulation thereof.

Why Youll Love Working here

• Competitive salary
• Multicultural and hybrid working environment
• Private Medical Insurance
• Employee Wellbeing Benefits
• Educational Development Program

About Cigna Healthcare

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race color age disability sex childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation sexual orientation gender identity or expression veteran or military status religion national origin ancestry marital or familial status genetic information status with regard to public assistance citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

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