Product Owner (Exp in Acute care hospital software with clinical end-users)

Job Title - Product Owner (Exp in Acute care hospital software with clinical end-users)

Location - San Diego, CA

Duration - 12+ Months Contract

Total Hours/week - 40.00

1st Shift

Client: Medical Device Company

Job Category: Engineering

Level Of Experience: Seniority Level

Employment Type: Contract on W2 (Need US Citizens Or GC Holders Only)

NOTES

Below are a few things we’re looking for on resumes. We’ve seen resumes that come in with a few items, but the bolded bullet below has been the hard one to find.

• Bachelor’s degree
• 3 - 5 years’ experience in a requirements engineering, system engineering, business analysis, or product ownership role
• Work in Eastern Time time zone business hours
• Experience working within an agile software development environment, directly supporting the needs of the sprint team as a product owner or product-owner proxy
• Experience working on an external customer-facing product. Extra points for a next-gen product.
• BOLD Similar domain experience such as:
• Medical devices
• Systems comprised of hardware/software
• Acute care hospital software with clinical end-users
• Technical (software development/testing) knowledge such as but not limited to
• experience as a software engineer (dev), or software quality engineer (test)
• automation testing, cloud deployment, SaaS, Web Application API, mircoservices, .NET, SQL, C++
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrated success with certain abilities such as leadership, influence, interpersonal and negotiation skills.

Reason for resume rejection in the past

• Resume demonstrates ineffective written communication skills (too long, too dense, was a copy/paste of job description)
• Candidate has no long term jobs in job history
• Candidate experience is in ‘healthcare’, but not acute care hospital software with clinical end-users. For example, experience is in managed care (e.g. Aetna/Blue Shield/Medicare) or in acute care hospitals but in finance or IT/networking
• Candidate experience is only as a business analyst work on internal products with no customers
• Candidate has no experience as a product owner

Description

Sr. Engineer, Product Ownership

As a Product Owner, the individual is accountable within the R&D group for functional feature definition and the value of the product resulting from the work of the Development Team.

Ensures the solution is valid and valuable to stakeholders through subject matter expertise in the assigned product domain, continued customer engagement throughout the software development life cycle, driving accountability by the business for user needs, and leading continuous backlog grooming.

Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to perform user needs, requirements, and functional workflow analysis in advance of development team, and in partnership with them, clearly and concisely define what should be developed and tested.

Prototypes, documents, and reviews functional software solutions with the cross-functional development team to solve our customer's greatest problems within the context of a system software release.

Within a sprint team the individual in this role will collaborate with an extended development team to define user stories and their associated acceptance criteria for the software that drives BD’s infusion connectivity software offerings.

Job Responsibilities

• Elicit feedback from internal and external stakeholders to confirm that the functional problems are sufficiently understood
• Partner with business owners to clarify and prioritize value of product backlog
• Analyzes assigned functional workflows supported by our Medication Management & Dispensing & Infusion software products
• Documents functional needs of the end-user in the form of Features and User Stories & their associated acceptance criteria and specifications
• May model functional workflows and create story maps for assigned features
• Partner with UX designers to create visual representations of the proposed solutions
• Independently leads the internal development team and broader R&D stakeholders through backlog grooming and refinement activities
• Responsible for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Development Team
• Ensures that the software engineering, software quality engineering, and product management teams understand the functional solutions well enough to successfully estimate, develop, and test them
• Drives readiness of features ahead of implementation
• Ensures product features have met the team’s definition of done

Desired Experience

• Experience working within a cross-functional product development team
• Demonstrates working knowledge of agile product development practices, techniques, processes, and roles
• Familiarity with the medication management product domain
• Experience defining user-facing problem statements and confirming validity with internal and external customer stakeholders
• Ability to translate the results of analysis into a functional design by designing solutions to address requirement(s)

Qualifications

• Must have a minimum - Bachelor’s degree in related field, preferably in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, or Computer Engineering
• 3 - 5 years experience in a requirements engineering, system engineering, business analysis, or product ownership role

Desired Abilities

• Successful in partnering with Software Engineering, Software Quality Engineering, Product Management, and/or Project Management teams
• Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Comfort with presenting to large cross-functional groups
• Ability to garner and drive consensus across multiple functions
• Comfortable with ambiguity

Preferred Experience

• Familiarity with the hospital, pharmacy, nursing, biomed or other clinically related domains
• Exposure to Hospital Information Systems (EHR, Pharmacy Information Systems, Patient ADT, PDMS)
• Experience creating and reviewing formal design inputs such as User Needs, Requirements, and Specifications
• Experience working within an agile software development environment, directly supporting the needs of the sprint team as a product owner or product owner-proxy
• Experience working on systems comprised of hardware and software

Position will start remote until Covid restrictions are lifted. Strong preference to local candidates. If not local pleas include current location and if willing to relocate. This is not a FT remote opportunity.