Agile Product Management Advisor

Agile Product Advisor assists the Technical Product Owner on aspects of their technical products in leading business value. Under the guidance of the TPO, the TPA will begin to learn and understand business and technology objectives, will learn to communicate the product vision and roadmap, and will work with the TPO on prioritization in order to document in JIRA a translation of needs into requirements to ensure that expected outcomes are achieved. 

Essential Functions:
Understanding Business Needs:  Collaborate with disparate stakeholder groups to identify, understand, and capture the functional needs of product stakeholders and define non-functional requirements to ensure value is delivered.

Communicating Needs and Enabling Teams to Deliver Quality Products: Communicate business needs, write definition-of-ready user stories, and incorporate architectural changes recommended by engineering. Maintain groomed backlog for business stakeholder priorities, ensuring the greatest value is delivered soonest.

Make Teams Awesome: Leverages agility tools (e.g. Jira) ensuring data quality and recommend strategies to optimize team performance and achieve overall department objectives (e.g. manage story aging, manage WIP, epic size/throughput, etc.).

Delivering Iterative Value: Work with TPO to ensure team’s work creates iterative value (e.g. supports the completion of MVPs/Epics in concert with other teams). Plan delivery of iterative value with other TPOs and prioritize/groom backlog accordingly to ensure highest level of quality. Manage unaddressed issues and collaborate with TPO on resolutions.

Owning Product Health: Identify and monitor tech product health metrics (e.g. KPIs, defect trends, compliance and security) to ensure business outcomes. Consult with TPO on recommended amount of team capacity is utilized for improving technical product health and driving down technical debt (e.g. integration and deployment of tooling, test automation, etc.).

What you should have:
Contributes to the completion of specific programs and projects.  Assists team and Delivery Managers with Go to Production support in mail order pharmacies.

• Must be a current contractor with Cigna Healthcare, Evernorth Health Services, or one of their subsidiaries. 

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Formal Education and/or Training: 

• Must have High School Diploma or equivalent 

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent work experience  preferred

Years of Experience: 

• 1-3 years relevant experience, previous coding or business analysis experience preferred but not necessary. Experience working in technology or in close engagement.
   

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.

About The Cigna Group

Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we’re dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers and patients. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.

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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The Cigna Group has a tobacco-free policy and reserves the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is legally permissible. Candidates in such states who use tobacco/nicotine will not be considered for employment unless they enter a qualifying smoking cessation program prior to the start of their employment. These states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Washington State.