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Our organization is committed to delivering innovative technology solutions that improve quality, efficiency, and customer outcomes across the enterprise. The Senior Product Owner - Technical plays a key role in advancing the Enterprise Quality Engineering transformation strategy by leading the evolution of the EQE+ Platform and related platform engineering initiatives. This role serves as the critical link between business stakeholders, engineering teams, and platform partners, translating strategic objectives into clear product priorities that drive the delivery of high-quality, AI-enabled platform capabilities that enhance engineering productivity, automation, quality outcomes, and developer experience.

The Senior Product Owner - Technical is responsible for defining, prioritizing, and managing the product backlog for the EQE+ Platform and associated Platform Quality Engineering solutions. This highly collaborative individual contributor role partners closely with Quality Engineering, Platform Engineering, Architecture, DevOps, and business stakeholders to establish product vision, roadmap, and feature delivery plans. The successful candidate will translate complex business and technical requirements into actionable epics, features, and user stories while ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and customer needs. The role requires strong technical acumen, experience working within Agile environments, and the ability to leverage AI-enabled technologies, automation, and data-driven insights to drive innovation, improve platform adoption, and accelerate value delivery across the software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage the product backlog for the EQE+ Platform and related Platform Quality Engineering initiatives, ensuring work is clearly defined, prioritized, and aligned with business and technology strategy.
• Create and manage product features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and product backlog items.
• Partner closely with development teams to clarify requirements, answer questions, and ensure alignment on user stories.
• Work with the Scrum Master and actively participate in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, QA, and business stakeholders throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Understand and work with technical solutions involving APIs, databases, UI frameworks, system integrations, and application architecture.
• Possess a working understanding of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps processes, source control, build, testing, and deployment workflows.
• Support story prioritization, dependency management, and readiness to ensure development teams have clear and actionable requirements.
• Partner with technical teams to identify technical dependencies, risks, integration requirements, and implementation considerations.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Technical Product Owner, Product Manager, or similar role supporting enterprise technology platforms.
• Experience managing product backlogs and delivering solutions within Agile frameworks such as Scrum or SAFe.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), platform engineering, DevOps, CI/CD, and quality engineering practices.
• Experience translating business requirements into epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with engineers, architects, business stakeholders, and executive leadership.
• Experience using backlog and project management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, prioritization, and decision-making skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Experience supporting Quality Engineering, Test Automation, Developer Experience, or Platform Engineering organizations.
• Experience with AI-enabled solutions, Generative AI technologies, intelligent automation, and predictive analytics capabilities.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms including Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Familiarity with observability, monitoring, and engineering productivity tools.

Use your skills to make an impact

The ideal candidate combines product management expertise with a strong understanding of software engineering, platform technologies, quality engineering practices, and modern development toolchains. They possess the ability to collaborate effectively with engineers, architects, and senior leaders while maintaining a hands-on approach to backlog management, sprint planning, acceptance validation, and release readiness activities. Experience identifying and implementing AI-driven capabilities, intelligent automation, predictive analytics, and workflow optimization within engineering platforms is highly preferred. This individual demonstrates strong communication, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills, with a proven track record of delivering scalable technology solutions that improve operational excellence, engineering effectiveness, and business value.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Pay Range

The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.

$124,800 - $171,600 per year

This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.

Description of Benefits

Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.

About Us

About Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com.

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