- Strong technical product owner skills with technical knowledge of products and systems.
- Ability to adapt in a fast-paced SAFe Agile environment – contribute to Agile ceremonies such as daily standup, retrospectives, team demoes and document business release notes
- Competent, self-starter with ability to work independently, solve problems and communicate with various stakeholders
- Manage and analyze business requirements with the ability to prioritize work during changes and conflicts
- Requirements elicitation, analysis and ability to manage multiple concurrent product initiatives.
- Good analytical skills with the ability to understand data integration points, process workflows from an end to end perspective
- Ability to work with value stream architects, technical SMEs to come up with solutions and ensure that solution meets business needs
- Ability to analyze, map, translate technical changes to business value and communicate to various stakeholders
- Be able to define quality user stories focusing on the what and why with well-defined acceptance criteria for Engineering team to implement
- Continuously groom user stories and prioritize team backlog with scrum teams based on business priorities.
- Conduct end-to-end impact analysis, design reviews, test case reviews to ensure that the business vision, goals and requirements are met
- Create and maintain high quality requirement artifacts (user stories, process flows, use cases, data mapping sheets, etc.) using various tools (i.e. Rally, Visio, Lucidchart, etc.)
- Coordinate and drive discussions/meetings independently with application users and various IT/business stakeholders (including other POs) to understand business problems, requirements, and goals that the business team need to achieve
Technical skills:
- Experience with enterprise integration with Oracle and cloud implementations.
- Hands on experience working as a technical product owner for Oracle platform
- Hands on experience working with data engineers
- Ability to easily understand and converse on technologies such as Oracle, Big Data Hadoop, Cloud, Java, JSON, database concepts (stored procedures, SQL) - hands on development experience not required
- SQL skills – Should be able to query databases and understand the results
- Data analysis skills
Soft skills:
- Be able to communicate/articulate concepts clearly
- Quick learner - ability to use different sources to learn and assimilate and not need day to day guidance.
- Be able to lead a team without 'full knowledge'
- Inquisitive, strong learner and proactive (able to anticipate issues rather than reacting to them)
- Looking for someone who can be a team leader/player not a team boss. Someone who is able to influence by conviction, not by "because I said so!!”
Background/ Desired Experience
- At-least 4 years of relevant product work experience as a Product Owner supporting scrum teams in SAFE Agile environment
- SAFe Product Owner/ Product Manager (POPM) certified
- Experience with clinical health care / pharmacy data and clinical decision support systems