IT Business Lead Analyst - C13 - PUNE

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, cloud-native, and modern engineering environments.

• 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).

• Strong understanding of trunk-based development, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices.

• Experience collaborating with engineers on system design, code quality, and automation strategies.

• Familiarity with security best practices, vulnerability assessments, and compliance requirements.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience working in data-driven decision-making environments.

• Hands-on knowledge of JIRA, Confluence.

• 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.

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Experience working with API-driven architectures and microservices.

• Familiarity with performance testing, observability, and cloud infrastructure.

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst or Product Owner in an Agile environment.