Product Owner

Location: Columbia, SC
Contract: W2 only, 6 month contract with potential for extension or conversion to full time with either the client or CEI
Pay: $53/hour + optional medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match

Defines customer needs in technical and business contexts. Ensures the proposed technical and business solutions meet the customer's objectives for the work effort. Provides guidance with planning and prioritization of business analysis activities in support of large, high-visibility project and support efforts. Provides guidance for less experienced staff to ensure they remain on target for meeting customer requirements.

• Elicit and document user requirements to meet a business objective. Sets customer expectations on feasibility. Identify and validate requirements and organize the information into a logical document using business analysis models that are understood by the customer and Information Systems.
• Act as the Subject Matter Expert for one or more lines of business on various projects. Mentor less experienced business systems analysts.
• Ensure understanding of why the business solution was chosen and guide both technical and customer departments in the development of the systems.
• Facilitate the transfer of knowledge about the "big picture" direction of the business units to others who support them. Provide guidance to less experienced team members so they can transfer this knowledge to technical departments.
• Ensure the accurate deployment of solutions through review of problem logs, assisting with test plans and test matrices, and other analysis activities.
• Provide the business direction for system changes.
• Validate the business need for solutions to business problems and process improvements.

• Demonstrated expertise in the concepts of the supported business unit.
• Demonstrated knowledge of standard industry practices and procedures for the business unit.
• Able to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences, including the ability to express complex technical and business concepts to all management levels, peers, and the business units.
• Able to act as a liaison between the business unit and I/S.
• Able to influence and negotiate solutions to business problems.
• Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills.
• Understands how IT affects an organization and is able to link it to business processes.
• Excellent analytical and conceptual skills.
• Able to read and comment on test plans and test matrices, project plans, and scope and design documents.
• Has a conceptual understanding of project management techniques.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or other job related field.
• or 4 years of job related work experience.
• or 2 years of job related experience plus an associate’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration or other job related degree.

• Agile Product Owner or Agile Business Analyst Experience
• Cloud hosted application experience
• Medicare Experience
• Jira/Confluence
• TestRail/ALM
• Nice To Have: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions
• Understanding DevOps practices and helps in managing cloud-based analytics pipelines and deployments.
• Experience with version control, automated testing, and deployment of workflows.