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.