Healthcare Technical Product Owner

About the position

Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. We help our clients modernize technology, reimagine processes and transform experiences so they can stay ahead in our fast-changing world. Together, we're improving everyday life. See how at www.cognizant.com or @cognizant. The Role: Individual Contributor External Facing Role

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with prospective users and clients to understand and anticipate their needs and translate them into product requirements.
• Defining the vision for the team's product and maintaining a cohesive vision throughout the process in Jira.
• Creating a product road map based on this vision. Plan/drive/deliver Program Increments (PI).
• Managing the product backlog and prioritizing the tasks based on changing requirements.
• Overseeing all stages of product creation, including design and development.
• Monitoring and evaluating product progress at each stage of the process.
• Working with the product team and end-users to deliver updates and status reports.
• Participating in Scrum meetings and product sprints.
• Plan and manage releases (Technical and Business), checkouts and signoffs.
• Manage the team (Dev & QA) capacity and day-day delivery.
• Ability to evaluate RCA of issues, drive to resolution and deliver.
• Ability to quickly learn/understand system architecture and relate upstream/downstream of the application/process allocation.
• Ability to understand technologies and well versed in Java services/API and/or Mainframe based platforms.

Requirements

• Excellent communications skills.
• Healthcare/PBM Domain experience preferred.
• 7 - 8 years of experience in Product Owner, Product Manager roles.
• Strong background in application development, project delivery and solution building.
• Past development experience in technologies like Java APIs and/or Mainframe Services.
• Well acquainted with Jira and Rally.
• Certified CSPO or POPM or ACSPO preferred.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan