Senior Technical Product Owner

Become a part of our caring community The Senior Technical Product Owner serves as the voice of the developer community and IT customer within our DevSecOps Engineering team, ensuring backlog priorities trace to initiative goals and program-level security outcomes. This role owns the backlog for DevSecOps Engineering, Humana's security engineering team spanning software scanning such as SAST/SCA/DAST, cloud security, and AI development. You'll enable an Agile delivery teams by defining features, prioritizing the backlog, and partnering with SMEs on story creation, while working on problems of moderate to substantial complexity with minimal supervision and considerable independent judgment. Unlike a traditional business Product Owner, this role requires genuine technical fluency — you should be comfortable in architecture discussions about microservices, CI/CD gating logic, and data pipelines, because you'll be prioritizing technical debt reduction, pipeline orchestration, and platform modernization work alongside developer-facing features. We are specifically looking for someone with a software engineering background who has transitioned into product ownership — not a pure business PO learning tech on the job. This is a delivery-focused role: we need someone who doesn't just manage a backlog, but drives features and roadmap items to done, quarter over quarter. The Product Owner maximizes value of product created by Agile team. Liaises with stakeholders and the development team ensuring the right product is being built, in the right order, within budget and by the deadline. Serves as the primary source for backlog prioritization and refinement then drives action. Partners with Product Manager to ensure backlog items advance capability objectives and deliver measurable outcomes within the Product Security service catalog. Advises senior leadership to develop functional strategies (often segment specific) on matters of significance. Exercises independent judgment and decision making on complex issues regarding job duties and related tasks, and works under minimal supervision, uses independent judgment requiring analysis of variable factors and determining the best course of action. Must reside in Louisville KY, Dallas TX, Florida (Ft. Lauderdale/Tampa), or Nashville; office visits required The Senior Technical Product Owner serves as the voice of the developer community and IT customer within our DevSecOps Engineering team, ensuring backlog priorities trace to initiative goals and program-level security outcomes. This role owns the backlog for DevSecOps Engineering, Humana's security engineering team spanning software scanning such as SAST/SCA/DAST, cloud security, and AI development. You'll