Temporary IT Product Owner

Are you looking for an opportunity to use your IT skills to truly change the world for the better? We are the leading non-profit organization that is redesigning the tools that enable public health agencies to do their jobs. We need committed, mission-driven technologists to help us build the next generation of public health tools for our Public Health Systems department. Public Health Systems advances population health management and healthcare delivery through the development of public health IT systems, health information exchange and interoperability solutions. We work with State and Federal government agencies to build and develop software that impacts people's lives. In this role, you will have the opportunity to help Altarum modernize the public health infrastructure and make a difference in your community. Our Public Health Systems department's efforts range from building the next generation technology in disease surveillance to optimizing data standards and system integrations to improve the coordination and delivery of healthcare for patients.

You’ll work in an Agile environment alongside a team of Software Developers, Business Analysts, and Public Health Analysts.

This is a Temporary, Full Time/No Benefits role (2+ months expected).

Responsibilities

• Lead conversations with clients, stakeholders, and team members to identify, gather, and define requirements for custom software development projects.
• Help stakeholders identify a shared product vision.
• Create and maintain Product Requirement Document(s) (PRD), Product Roadmap, and Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Create the necessary functional and technical documentation, from which the software development team will produce code.
• Managing a business analyst team lead with analysts.
• Help internal development team execute on the shared product vision.
• Organize and distill product requirements into Epics and User Stories.
• Conduct and/or lead the analysis and documentation of business processes.
• Own the product backlog and organize work items.
• Prioritize tech debt, backlog, change requests and enhancements.
• Communicate with manager all risks associated with product quality, delays in timelines, resource availability, changes in scope, etc.
• Lead Sprint Planning meeting with external stakeholders.
• Organize prioritized work into sprints.
• Assist Scrum Master and Development Leads with communicating product requirements.
• Present Epic/User Stories selected for sprints.
• Be available to answer product, epic, user story questions from development team.
• Ensure Epic creation, User Story creation, product design, wireframes/mockups, prioritization are executed.
• Lead and perform product demos.
• Assist with product launch execution.
• Oversee and/or lead training of user groups.
• Participate in testing and system validation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• CSBA or CBAP certification a plus.
• 3-5 years working in product development, product management, interoperability, or related experience.
• 3+ years of experience leading projects.
• Track record of gathering and defining requirements.
• Drive deliberate partnership and innovation work.
• Acute business acumen.
• Organized with planning skills, problem-solving and root cause identification skills.
• Demonstrated proficiency with large-scale organization projects.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Experience with healthcare organizations, public health, medical terminology, clinical workflow processes, electronic health records, interoperability standards, and HL7.
• Technical writing experience a plus.
• Experience in maintaining products.
• Experience in creating RTM.
• Experience with product development architecture and UI/UX.
• Comfortable working with multiple teams.
• Accurate and precise attention to detail.
• Ability to build strong interpersonal relationships.
• Ability to delegate and oversee tasks.

Logistical Requirements

• Must be eligible to work in the United States.
• Work must be completed in the continental U.S.
• Hybrid role if local to offices.
• Must be able to work during eastern time.
• Remote workers need a dedicated workspace.

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