Senior Configuration Professional

Become a part of our caring community   The Senior Configuration Professional is responsible for leading Medicaid-related product capabilities, configuration strategy, backlog management, and implementation support within the care management and utilization management platform. This role partners with Medicaid market leaders, clinical operations, care management, utilization management, compliance, quality, technology teams, vendor partners, and Agile delivery teams to define product vision, prioritize work, translate business needs into actionable requirements, and ensure delivered solutions support clinical, operational, regulatory, and member experience outcomes. This position combines senior-level configuration management expertise with product ownership responsibilities, ensuring system capabilities are properly configured, tested, documented, governed, and continuously optimized to support Medicaid care and utilization management workflows. Key Responsibilities • Serve as the product owner for Medicaid-related capabilities within the application or comparable care management, utilization management, or population health platform. • Partner with Medicaid market business leaders, clinical operations, care management, utilization management, compliance, quality, and technology stakeholders to define product vision, roadmap, priorities, and business outcomes. • Own, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog based on business value, regulatory requirements, operational impact, member experience, configuration complexity, technical dependencies, and implementation readiness. • Translate business needs into clear features, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, functional requirements, business rules, and configuration specifications. • Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, requirement reviews, product demos, and stakeholder walkthroughs in partnership with Agile teams, other product owners, business stakeholders, and delivery leaders. • Lead configuration management activities for Medicaid capabilities, including configuration analysis, design, validation, implementation, documentation, and governance. • Collaborate with vendor partners and internal technology teams to evaluate configuration options, integrations, enhancements, defects, technical dependencies, release impacts, and operational risks. • Ensure delivered solutions support Medicaid care management and utilization management workflows, including assessments, care plans, authorizations, referrals, case management, interdisciplinary care team activities, member engagement, and reporting needs. • Partner with compliance and regulatory stakeholders to ensure system functionality aligns with Medicaid state, federal, contractual, audit, accreditation, privacy, and security requirements. • Configure, validate, test, and deploy system changes in accordance with approved change management, release management, and governance processes. • Support implementation planning, release readiness, production validation, post-release adoption, and operational stabilization activities. • Analyze operational data, user feedback, production issues, defects, configuration gaps, and process inefficiencies to identify opportunities for product and platform optimization. • Facilitate cross-functional decision-making and help resolve competing priorities using a value-driven and risk-informed approach. • Support change management, training, communications, stakeholder readiness, and adoption activities for new or enhanced Medicaid capabilities. • Monitor product performance, adoption metrics, configuration quality, incident trends, and business outcomes to ensure solutions meet stakeholder and operational needs. • Identify risks, dependencies, impediments, and c