Product Architect - Medicare

Medica is a nonprofit health plan with more than a million members that serves communities in Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Missouri, and beyond. We deliver personalized health care experiences and partner closely with providers to ensure members are genuinely cared for.

We're a team that owns our work with accountability, makes data-driven decisions, embraces continuous learning, and celebrates collaboration - because success is a team sport. It's our mission to be there in the moments that matter most for our members and employees. Join us in creating a community of connected care, where coordinated, quality service is the norm and every member feels valued.

The Medicare Product Architect uses deep subject matter knowledge and business relationships to ensure the alignment between business areas represented and the rest of the organization. Responsible for working with Medicare Product Development leadership to support end-to-end planning and the execution of key business, projects, strategies or priorities. Performs other duties as assigned.

Key Accountabilities

Medicare Product Strategy and Planning

• Support development of new Medicare product/product expansion business cases and prioritization by driving impact assessments and solution estimating processes with Medicare Technology and Operations partners.
• Maintain prioritized multi-year product roadmap and dashboard to provide transparency around product lifecycle and implementation status
• Assure Medicare product development projects optimally align with business objectives and timing considerations
• Assist with product and technology architectural and design principles to improve performance, capacity and scalability of Medicare product
• Sets and validates Medicare program priorities when there are competing needs

Product Knowledge

• Develop and maintain broad knowledge about current and future Medicare product features
• Understand regulatory and/or market-specific requirements and implication to Medica's product roadmap
• Translate product needs so that shared services teams can engineer effective and sustainable solutions

Product Implementation

• Collaborate with shared services teams to define scope and deliverables for product initiatives
• Define product implementation success factors, ensure that quality measures are in place and validate that project deliverables and any business or technical solutions meet these expectations
• Partner with compliance, legal, etc. to ensure all necessary state and federal regulations are considered and implemented as part of any product deployment
• Create and manage an implementation project plan for Medicare Product annual 1/1 readiness deliverables and provide regular status reporting
• Track, Manage and Communicate post go-live implementation related product issues and provide support for any escalations through the Command Center and root-cause analysis efforts

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in related field
• 10 years of work experience beyond degree

Skills and Abilities

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  Company thought leader. Adept at working across the organization to achieve high-impact outcomes. Performs responsibilities with minimal supervision.
  
• Highly advanced health plan working knowledge and professional skillset; Strong experience level of understanding decision-making criterion and influencing decisions; Ability to provide direction on very complex projects; Ability to communicate well (both verbally and in writing) to C-Suite levels; Strong stakeholder management skillset.

This position is an Office role, which requires an employee to work onsite at our Minnetonka, MN office, on average, 3 days per week.

The full salary grade for this position is $111,200 - $190,600. While the full salary grade is provided, the typical hiring salary range for this role is expected to be between $111,200 - $166,740. Annual salary range placement will depend on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, education, work experience, applicable certifications and/or licensure, the position's scope and responsibility, internal pay equity and external market salary data. In addition to base compensation, this position may be eligible for incentive plan compensation in addition to base salary. Medica offers a generous total rewards package that includes competitive medical, dental, vision, PTO, Holidays, paid volunteer time off, 401K contributions, caregiver services and many other benefits to support our employees.

The compensation and benefits information is provided as of the date of this posting. Medica's compensation and benefits are subject to change at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.

Eligibility to work in the US: Medica does not offer work visa sponsorship for this role. All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of application. Employment is contingent on verification of identity and eligibility to work in the United States.

We are an Equal Opportunity employer, where all qualified candidates receive consideration for employment indiscriminate of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic.