Senior Technical Product Owner

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

As a Senior Technical Product Owner, you will translate business objectives and technical requirements into clear system functionality and deliverable scope. You will guide features through the full development lifecycle, leveraging software development methodologies, AI tools, and strong documentation practices while ensuring quality, clarity, and alignment with stakeholder needs. You will partner closely with your scrum team, provide demos, review functionality for acceptance, and mentor junior TPOs to support both team growth and product excellence.

Schedule: Monday to Friday, 8.30 AM- 5 PM

Location: Onsite - 1600 McConnor Pkwy, Schaumburg, IL 60173

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Elicit, analyze, and translate business and technical objectives into clear system functional requirements and product scope
• Apply appropriate software development methodologies and best practices throughout the product lifecycle
• Leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, requirement analysis, documentation quality, and workflow efficiency
• Create high‑quality documentation for features, capabilities, and user stories, ensuring clarity and alignment with business needs
• Own features end‑to‑end, guiding them through discovery, development, testing, and release
• Review and accept completed functionality to ensure it meets defined requirements, quality standards, and user value
• Ensure effective communication across teams regarding feature status, impacts, risks, and delivery timelines
• Deliver stakeholder demos and participate in sprint demos to showcase work in progress and completed functionality
• Own designated product capabilities, ensuring deep understanding of their design, dependencies, and how proposed changes impact performance, integrity, and quality
• Partner with business users and technical teams to map business processes and design cost‑effective system solutions
• Review, evaluate, and influence solutions to ensure they align with enterprise standards, architectural guidelines, and long‑term product strategy
• Support enhancement, maintenance, and new development efforts across applications, systems, and platforms
• Develop innovative approaches for solving product challenges and improving delivery processes
• Serve as a subject matter expert and thought leader in Technical Product Ownership, influencing strategy and team performance

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear directions on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications: 

• 4+ years of experience as a liaison between business and technology organizations and the ability to communicate effectively with both and champion the needs of both
• 4+ years of experience as a Product owner leading scrum teams
• 3+ years of experience evaluating new technology frameworks and prototypes
• 1+ years of American Health Care IT experience
• 1+ years of experience in driving solutions that map to the global target architecture, standards, and roadmaps in a distributed hardware, operating systems, and cloud computing
• 1+ years of experience analyzing the current business, detecting critical deficiencies, and recommending solutions for improvement

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
• American Health Care IT experience: ex: EHR, Practice Management, Interface Engines, HL7, CDA, or DICOM
• Systems integration projects
• Thrives in a high-velocity environment, delivering high quality output
• Loves understanding, championing, and documenting the business and technical objectives
• Drives toward high-quality acceptance criteria

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $91,700 to $163,700 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location, and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups, and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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