Business Analyst/Product Owner (AI/ML) - C12 - PUNE

Business Analyst/Product Owner – Modern Engineering Practices

About The Role

We are looking for a highly skilled and technically strong Business Analyst (BA) / Product Owner (PO) to drive technology transformation in the AIML landscape, and agile product management. You will play a critical role in defining, refining, and delivering high-value features while ensuring alignment with trunk-based development, automation, BDD, TDD, system design, and modern ways of working.

This role requires deep expertise in agile product ownership, technical awareness, AI/ML hands-on proven experience in defining acceptance criteria, and working closely with engineering teams to enable high-quality, secure, and scalable product development.

Key Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Agile Execution

• Define and prioritize product backlogs, ensuring alignment with business objectives and modern engineering standards.
• Own and articulate clear, detailed, and testable user stories, acceptance criteria, and impact assessments.
• Champion trunk-based development by ensuring work is continuously integrated and delivered.
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders, engineers, and QA to drive BDD/TDD adoption and ensure automated validation of requirements.
• Work closely with developers to ensure user stories and requirements are structured for seamless integration in a trunk-based development environment.
• Ensure security, performance, and scalability are embedded in feature requirements.
• Regularly interact with stakeholders, collecting feedback and managing expectations throughout the product lifecycle.
  
  

Technical Collaboration & Engineering Excellence

• Work closely with developers to define technical acceptance criteria that align with code quality, security, and performance best practices.
• Conduct impact assessments for new features or changes to assess their potential effect on existing systems, processes, and users
• Advocate for automation-first approaches in testing, deployment, and feature validation.
• Partner with engineers to review architecture and system design decisions, ensuring business requirements are met efficiently.
• Support code review processes by defining functional requirements, security constraints, and expected outcomes.
• Ensure business requirements align with vulnerability mitigation, compliance, and security best practices.
  
  

Leadership & Ways of Working

• Drive modern ways of working, fostering a collaborative and agile product development culture.
• Work within Scrum teams, facilitating sprint planning, backlog refinement, and sprint reviews.
• Support sprint retrospectives and foster a culture of continuous improvement within the team.
• Partner with engineering leadership to optimize delivery pipelines and enable continuous integration and deployment.
• Act as a bridge between business and technology, ensuring value-driven decision-making.
• Enable teams to experiment, iterate, and improve based on data-driven insights.
  
  

Skills and Experience:

Must-Have Skills:

• Strong experience as a Business Analyst / Product Owner in agile, AI/ML, and GenAI environment.
• Expertise in defining and managing user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical impact assessments.
• Hands-on experience with BDD (Behavior-Driven Development) and TDD (Test-Driven Development).
• Experience collaborating with engineers on system design, functional and non functional specifications and technical implementation strategies.
• Familiarity with non-functional and compliance requirements.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience working in data-driven decision-making environments.
• Data analysis skills, familiarity with data structures and definitions, understand data flows and perform data queries.
• Hands-on knowledge of JIRA, Confluence.
• Hands-on experience of creating process flows, data flows, component and sequence diagrams
• Backlog Management: Prioritizing features based on business value, customer impact, and technical feasibility.
• Sprint Planning & Execution: Collaborating with teams to define sprint goals and ensure continuous delivery.
• Understanding of business processes and domain-driven design (DDD). Ability to plan, organize, and lead an event storming session with cross-functional teams.
• Strong understanding of trunk-based development, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices.
  
  

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Understand user experience design practices
• Experience in creating wire-frames.
  
  

Qualifications:

• 6-12 years experience in an Product Owner Role.
• Demonstrated execution capabilities.
• Development experience in a fast-paced, time-to-market driven environment
• Project management experience preferred
  
  

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience
  
  

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Technology Quality

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Time Type:

Full time

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