Agile Product Management Senior Advisor

**must be a contractor in good standing with The Cigna Group to be considered**

Key Responsibilities

 Product Ownership & Strategy

• Own and communicate theproduct vision, roadmap, and priorities
• Translate business strategy intofeatures, epics, and user stories
• Partner with Product Managers and business stakeholders to ensure alignment on outcomes
• Drivecustomer-centric decision making and value delivery

 Backlog & Delivery Management

• Own and maintain awell-groomed, prioritized backlog
• Writedefinition-of-ready user stories with clear acceptance criteria
• Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, and prioritization activities
• Ensure incremental, iterative delivery ofMVPs and product features

 Stakeholder Collaboration

• Collaborate closely with:
  • Business partners and clients
  • Engineering and architecture teams
  • QA and release management
• Act as thevoice of the customer and ensure requirements reflect real user needs
• Facilitate sprint reviews, demos, and stakeholder feedback loops

Agile Leadership & Execution

• Provideservant leadership to agile teams
• Drive agile ceremonies (refinement, planning, demos, retrospectives)
• Remove blockers and escalate issues when needed
• Improve team performance throughmetrics and data-driven insights

Technical Alignment & Quality

• Partner with engineering to:
  • Incorporatearchitectural guidance and technical constraints
  • Ensure scalability, performance, and security requirements
• Owndefinition of done and acceptance validation
• Support testing strategy, defect triage, and production support processes

Product Health & Metrics

• Define and monitorproduct health KPIs
  • Quality metrics (defects, stability)
  • Delivery metrics (velocity, throughput)
  • Business outcomes
• Ensure regulatory, compliance, and security expectations are met

Cross-Team & Program Coordination

• Coordinate dependencies across multiple teams and TPOs
• Align features withprogram-level goals and enterprise roadmaps
• Manage release planning, communications, and documentation

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• ~5+ years experience in:
  • Product Ownership / Product Management
  • Agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban)
• Experience managingtechnical products and engineering-driven solutions
• Strong understanding of:
  • APIs, microservices, cloud platforms
  • SDLC and CI/CD practices

Key Skills & Competencies

• Strongbusiness + technical acumen
• Excellentstakeholder communication and influence
• Agile mindset with focus oncontinuous improvement
• Ability to manageambiguity and complex dependencies
• Data-driven decision making and prioritization

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.

About The Cigna Group

Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we’re dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers and patients. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

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