**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 functionalspecifications 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 ------------------------------------------------------ **Job Family Group:** Technology ------------------------------------------------------ **Job Family:** Technology Quality ------------------------------------------------------ **Time Type:** Full time ------------------------------------------------------ _Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law._ _If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity review_ _Accessibility at Citi (https://www.citigroup.com/citi/accessibility/application-accessibility.htm)_ _._ _View Citi’s_ _EEO Policy Statement (https://www.citigroup.com/global/eeo-aa-policy)_ _and the_ _Know Your Rights (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088\_EEOC\_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf)_ _poster._ Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. 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