Lead Data Product Owner - PBM

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The Lead Data Product Owner supports the lifecycle of Humana Pharmacy Solutions (PBM) and Domani joint venture data products, ensuring data assets are trusted, governed, discoverable, and reusable across analytics, operational workflows, digital experiences, and emerging AI-enabled self-service.
This role translates PBM and Domani needs into high-quality user stories and a well-managed backlog, enabling engineering teams to deliver reliable, productized data—particularly as data is modernized and migrated to Databricks.
The role partners closely with a Data Product Manager (DPM) who owns product strategy and outcomes. The Lead Data Product Owner is primarily execution-focused, responsible for story definition, backlog management, delivery alignment, and ensuring existing governance and stewardship models are consistently applied and aligned with enterprise data policy within an Agile SAFe environment.

Key Responsibilities

1) Own the PBM & Domani Data Product Backlog (New + Legacy)

• Partner with the Data Product Manager to translate PBM and Domani strategy into a prioritized, story-driven backlog.
• Maintain an inventory of PBM and Domani data products (e.g., claims adjudication, benefits/formulary, utilization management, pricing/rebates, network, eligibility).
• Identify high-value legacy datasets—especially those critical to Domani—that require clarification, remediation, or protection during modernization.
• Ensure backlog prioritization drives measurable outcomes such as improved adoption, reduced defects, and faster time-to-insight.

2) User Story Leadership (Primary Execution Responsibility)

• Write clear, testable user stories that reflect PBM and Domani consumer needs (analytics, operational, reporting, digital).
• Decompose complex cross-entity requirements into incremental stories (e.g., curated datasets, Domani-specific views, governed extracts).
• Define acceptance criteria that reinforce:
  • Correct business semantics
  • Data quality expectations
  • Documentation completeness
  • Readiness for consumption

3) Productize Data During Modernization / Migration to Databricks

• Ensure PBM and Domani data modernization efforts result in managed data products, not unmanaged technical artifacts.
• Partner with engineering and architecture to ensure migrated datasets meet established standards for:
  • Business definitions and semantics
  • Lineage and dependency visibility
  • Versioning and change management
  • Reconciliation and validation for cutover (especially financial and utilization data impacting Domani)

4) Sustain and Operationalize Existing Data Governance & Stewardship

(Reframed to reflect maturity, not net-new design)

• Apply and reinforce existing governance and stewardship models across PBM and Domani data products rather than creating new frameworks.
• Ensure datasets consistently align with enterprise data policy, standards, and decision rights.
• Partner with data governance, stewardship, and domain leaders to:
  • Maintain clear ownership and accountability for PBM and Domani datasets
  • Ensure required metadata, glossary alignment, and documentation remain current
  • Identify gaps where governance standards are not consistently applied and convert them into backlog items
• Support ongoing data quality management by:
  • Translate existing CDEs and quality rules into relevant delivery stories
  • Track recurring defects and ensure fixes are prioritized and durable
• Ensure dataset lifecycle practices (retention, deprecation, evolution) are followed in alignment with corporate policy and joint venture agreements.

5) Enable Self-Service Analytics & AI Readiness Through Consistency

• Improve usability and trust by ensuring PBM and Domani data products consistently meet established standards for:
  • Definitions and naming conventions
  • Documentation and examples
  • Secure access and entitlement patterns
• Ensure data products are reusable across teams while respecting Domani-specific governance, contractual, and regulatory constraints.

6) Support Operational & Digital Experiences with Data Contracts

• Partner with operational, digital, and Domani stakeholders to ensure data products support real-world needs.
• Define and maintain data contracts that clarify:
  • Availability and freshness expectations
  • Schema evolution and change notification
  • PBM vs. Domani consumer responsibilities

7) Deliver Through SAFe Agile with Backlog Discipline

• Operate within SAFe with a story-first mindset:
  • Participate in PI planning, refinement, and ART ceremonies
  • Ensure backlog readiness and dependency clarity
  • Coordinate across engineering, analytics, platform, security/compliance, and JV partners
• Track delivery and health metrics such as adoption, quality incidents, freshness Service level agreements, and consumer satisfaction.

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Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience)
• 6–10+ years in data product ownership, analytics delivery, or related roles
• Comfortable performing SQL-based data exploration/validation
• Experience working within established governance frameworks and aligning delivery to enterprise standards

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to write high-quality user stories and acceptance criteria for data products
• Experience supporting joint ventures or multi-entity data ecosystems
• Databricks / lakehouse modernization experience
• PBM, pharmacy, claims, or regulated healthcare experience
• Familiarity with DAMA-aligned concepts applied pragmatically
• Proven ability to operationalize governance through delivery, not process creation

Additional Information:

As part of our hiring process for this opportunity, we will be using an interviewing technology called HireVue to enhance our hiring and decision-making ability. HireVue allows us to quickly connect and gain valuable information from you pertaining to your relevant skills and experience at a time that is best for your schedule.

Work at home requirements:

To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees' ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees must meet the following criteria:

At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is required; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested.

Satellite, cellular and microwave connection can be used only if approved by leadership.

Employees who live and work from Home in the state of California, Illinois, Montana, or South Dakota will be provided a bi-weekly payment for their internet expense.

Humana will provide Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees with telephone equipment appropriate to meet the business requirements for their position/job.

Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.

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Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Pay Range

The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.

 

$115,200 - $158,400 per year

 

This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.

Description of Benefits

Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.Application Deadline: 04-09-2026

About us
 

About CenterWell Senior Primary Care: CenterWell Senior Primary Care provides proactive, preventive care to seniors, including wellness visits, physical exams, chronic condition management, screenings, minor injury treatment and more. Our unique care model focuses on personalized experiences, taking time to listen, learn and address the factors that impact patient well-being. Our integrated care teams, which include physicians, nurses, behavioral health specialists and more, spend up to 50 percent more time with patients, providing compassionate, personalized care that brings better health outcomes. We go beyond physical health by also addressing other factors that can impact a patient’s well-being.About CenterWell, a Humana company: CenterWell is a leading healthcare services business focused on creating integrated and differentiated experiences that put our patients at the center of everything we do. The result is high-quality healthcare that is accessible, comprehensive and, most of all, personalized. As the largest provider of senior-focused primary care, a leading provider of home healthcare and a leading integrated home delivery, specialty, hospice and retail pharmacy, CenterWell is focused on whole health and addressing the physical, emotional and social wellness of our patients. CenterWell is part of Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM). Learn more about what we offer at CenterWell.com.

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