Agile Product Owner Associate Advisor - HIH - Evernorth

INTRODUCTION TO EVERNORTH:  Evernorth Health Services India, established in Hyderabad in 2024, is an innovation hub for Evernorth Health Services, the pharmacy, care and benefits division of The Cigna Group. The innovation hub will support innovation-focused areas, such as generative AI, product development, process improvement, analytics, and software engineering across The Cigna Group and its businesses.  Evernorth Health Services India builds on The Cigna Group’s existing presence in India. About Evernorth Health Services: Evernorth Health Services (Evernorth) is the pharmacy, care and benefits solution division of The Cigna Group - a Fortune 16 global health company with 75,000 employees, 186 million customers in more than 30 countries and jurisdictions around the world. Evernorth exists to make the prediction, prevention, and treatment of illness and disease more accessible to millions of people. We do this by creating and connecting premier health services offerings, such as benefits management, pharmacy, care solutions, insights and intelligence. About Cigna" Cigna, a leading Health Services company, is looking for an exceptional Back end and API engineer in our Provider Engineering organization. This position is responsible for the delivery of a business need starting from understanding the requirements to deploying the software into production. This role requires you to be fluent in some of the critical technologies with proficiency in others, with a very strong analytical aptitude and have a hunger to learn on the job, understand data and add value to the business. Critical attributes of being a Back End Engineer, among others, is ownership, eagerness to learn & an open mindset. In addition to delivery, the role demands having an automation first and continuous improvement mindset. The candidate should drive the adoption of CI/CD tools and support the improvement of the tools sets/processes. improvement of the tools sets/processes.  The Technical Product Owner is responsible for translating business goals into clear, actionable technical requirements and ensuring delivery teams build solutions that maximize customer and business value. This role bridges product strategy, architecture, engineering, and operations by managing the product backlog, defining user stories and acceptance criteria, prioritizing technical and functional work, and driving execution across agile teams. Successful Technical Product Owners combine strong product judgment, technical fluency, stakeholder management, and data-driven decision-making.

Own and maintain the product backlog for technical and functional features, enablers, integrations, and technical debt.   Partner with business stakeholders, architects, engineers, and designers to define product vision, roadmap, and release priorities.   Translate business needs into epics, features, and user stories with clear acceptance criteria and technical context.   Prioritize backlog items based on business value, customer impact, risk, dependencies, and implementation complexity.   Work closely with engineering teams during sprint planning, refinement, demos, and retrospectives to ensure alignment and delivery readiness.   Clarify requirements, answer team questions, and make timely tradeoff decisions to keep delivery moving.   Align product decisions with enterprise architecture, security, compliance, reliability, and scalability requirements.   Coordinate across teams to manage dependencies, integrations, and release readiness.   Use customer feedback, analytics, operational metrics, and testing results to refine priorities and improve outcomes.   Communicate progress, risks, decisions, and roadmap changes to stakeholders and leadership.   Apply specification-driven development (SDD) practices and AI-assisted tools to generate specifications and develop prototypes that validate business asks and expected business value.   Required Qualifications