Technical Product Owner (TPO) - SAS-Work from home- Evernorth

Remote, Work from home, United States

People want to be treated like individuals. At Evernorth Services, we get that. That's why we embrace and encourage peoples' uniqueness, helping to give them the strength and confidence to show the world who they really are. The coverage, expertise, and services we provide are at the very core of how we help people achieve their full potential - and ultimately, improve their health, well-being, and sense of security. But before we can accomplish any of that, we must have the right people in place. People like you.

Skills, experience, talent, and creativity like yours enables us to develop the meaningful, innovative solutions our customers value and expect. That's why we're committed to recruiting, motivating, and nurturing the best and the brightest, whether you have industry experience or not. We're growing a workforce as unique and diverse as the millions of customers we proudly serve around the world - one individual at a time.

Team Context:

Within Evernorth Services, the Data and Analytics Engineering (D&AE) group is engaged in a multi-year commitment to build and rollout a unified Analytics Platform (AP). This new platform serves as a cloud based, integrated work-bench for our growing community of 1,000+ Data Scientists and Business Analytics professionals. We are actively seeking motivated individuals to help lead the design and delivery of select components of the overall AP roadmap.

The TPO, SAS Integration role is an opportunity for an analytics professional to provide thought leadership and guidance to our engineering partners around the growth and evolution of SAS as integrated into the Analytics Platform. Accountable for understanding the overall AP strategy, the TPO will help establish a detailed vision for how the AP is to leverage the full potential of SAS. They are also responsible for managing a product backlog in Jira, setting team priorities, and helping to drive system delivery in a Scaled Agile delivery framework (SAFe). As a well-connected leader, they will need to collaborate with business and engineering leaders along with subject matter experts and end users to ensure platform capabilities best serve our customers.

Responsibilities

• Perform product ownership according to Evernorth's Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
  
  • Solidify and represent product strategy
  • Understand and verify customer needs through regular engagement
  • Document holistic, user-centered requirements as Features and User Stories
  • Maintain formal product backlogs and "living" product roadmaps
  • Prioritize delivery, and help navigate priority adjustments
  • Participate in agile routines such as stand-ups, product demos, and PI Planning
• Lead 1 or more cross-functional delivery teams responsible for integrating SAS functionality as a seamless extension of the AP. This includes areas such as:
  
  • Domino Containerized SAS Studio
  • SAS Viya Deployment and Integration
  • SAS Platform Data Connectivity (i.e. S3, Teradata, Databricks)
• Personally exercise and test new functionality when appropriate
• Supply subject matter expertise to shape product design, and to best represent product functionality to the user community
• Help the user community advance their understanding and utilization of rich SAS capabilities available in the AP
• Assist with documentation and training
• Facilitate our ability to measure product success

Required Qualifications

• At least a BS degree in MIS, Computer Science, Data Science/Analytics, Statistics or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years work experience in one of the following fields:
  
  • Advanced Analytics
  • Business Intelligence
  • Data Science
  • Enterprise Data Management
• Natural leadership instincts with proven ability to facilitate group activity
• Strong written and verbal communication skill across a variety of audiences
• Natural desire for organization and follow through
• Action oriented and able to problem solve multi-dimensional challenges

Desired qualifications:

• At least 2 years of experience in Agile delivery
• Formal experience or training in SAFe
• Technical expertise with any of: AWS, Predictive Modeling, Machine Learning, Domino Data Labs, Spark, Databricks
• Technical expertise with any of: Python, R-Studio, or SAS programming languages

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.

For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 104,700 - 174,500 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.

This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus plan.

We want you to be healthy, balanced, and feel secure. That's why you'll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment, you'll be offered several health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k) with company match, company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year and paid holidays. For more details on our employee benefits programs, visit Life at Cigna.

About Evernorth

Evernorth, Cigna Corporation's health services segment, exists to elevate health for all. We're building on our legacy and redefining health care as we know it. Unbiased in how we think, we create without limitation. We partner without constraints, deliver value differently and act in the interest of humanity. Solving across silos, closing gaps in care, and empowering clients, customers, and people everywhere to move onward and upward. When you work with us, you'll be empowered to solve the problems others don't, won't or can't. Join us. What difference will you make?

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.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing the online application process, please email: [email protected] for support. Do not email [email protected] for an update on your application or to provide your resume as you will not receive a response.

Cigna 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.