R&D Business Analyst/Product Owner - IDC | Bengaluru, India

Hitachi Energy; Bengaluru; Hybride; INR 1 200 000 - 2 000 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Hitachi Energy Ltd. is seeking an R&D Business Analyst/Product Owner in Bangalore, located in a hybrid model. You will bridge business stakeholders with product management, architecture, and engineering to ensure features are analyzed, refined, and ready before development.

You’ll drive backlog readiness, acceptance criteria, and release predictability while aligning with safety and integrity values. The role emphasizes collaboration across product owners, delivery teams, and QA to reduce rework

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, CS, Business, or related field.
• At least 5 years of business analysis in Agile environments.
• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, analytical, and communication skills.
• Proven experience writing user stories, acceptance criteria, and requirement documentation.
• Experience with enterprise software delivery, digital product development, release management, or quality management.
• Knowledge on probabilistic forecasting would be an added advantage.

Responsabilités

• Lead requirement elicitation workshops and translate business needs into epics, features, user stories, and clear acceptance criteria.
• Build a continuous pipeline of development-ready work and facilitate backlog refinement aligned with the Definition of Ready.
• Analyze business processes and create process flows, use cases, business rules, impact assessments, and traceability records.
• Identify dependencies, assumptions, constraints, and risks, and communicate them clearly to stakeholders.
• Support release planning, test-scenario definition, business validation, defect triage, and root-cause analysis.
• Provide data-driven recommendations that improve requirement quality, product quality, stakeholder alignment, and release predictability.
• Prepare key deliverables, including requirement documents, dependency logs, traceability matrices, release-readiness reports, and stakeholder communication plans.
• Track outcomes such as backlog readiness, requirement-related defects, clarification requests, rework, predictability, and stakeholder satisfaction.

Connaissances

Stakeholder management

Facilitation

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Agile delivery

Requirement documentation

Formation

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/CS/Business

Outils

Azure DevOps

Jira

Confluence

Miro

Visio

Lucidchart

Microsoft Office

Power BI

Description du poste

R&D Business Analyst/Product Owner - IDC

Join our Product Management and Technology Delivery team as a Business Analyst/Product Owner in Bangalore in a hybrid working model. You will partner with Product Owners and delivery teams to improve requirement quality, backlog readiness, delivery predictability, and product quality. Acting as the bridge between business stakeholders, product management, architecture, engineering, and quality assurance, you will help ensure that features are fully analyzed, refined, documented, and ready before development. Your work will reduce rework, requirement-driven defects, and delivery delays while enabling Product Owners to focus on product strategy, prioritization, and value realization.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Lead requirement elicitation workshops and translate business needs into epics, features, user stories, and clear acceptance criteria.
• Build a continuous pipeline of development-ready work and facilitate backlog refinement aligned with the Definition of Ready.
• Analyze business processes and create process flows, use cases, business rules, impact assessments, and traceability records.
• Identify dependencies, assumptions, constraints, and risks, and communicate them clearly to stakeholders.
• Support release planning, test-scenario definition, business validation, defect triage, and root-cause analysis.
• Provide data-driven recommendations that improve requirement quality, product quality, stakeholder alignment, and release predictability.
• Prepare key deliverables, including requirement documents, dependency logs, traceability matrices, release-readiness reports, and stakeholder communication plans.
• Track outcomes such as backlog readiness, requirement-related defects, clarification requests, rework, predictability, and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
• Live Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity by taking responsibility for your actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your background:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of business analysis experience in Agile delivery environments.
• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, analytical, and communication skills.
• Proven experience writing user stories, acceptance criteria, and requirement documentation.
• Experience with enterprise software delivery, digital product development, release management, or quality management.
• Ability to use Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, Miro, Visio, Lucidchart, Microsoft Office, Power BI, and collaboration platforms.
• Experience with products that support cybersecurity services.
• PMI-PBA or an Agile certification.
• Knowledge on probabilistic forecasting would be an added advantage

More about us

This role is based in Bangalore with a hybrid working model and offers the opportunity to shape predictable, high-quality product delivery across the software development lifecycle.

We are a global leader in electrification, powering the electricity era to meet the energy demands of today, and the next 25 years. As the energy arm of Hitachi Group, over three billion people depend on our pioneering, mission-critical technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century of innovation, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time: driving the evolution of the world’s energy system to ensure abundant, secure, affordable, and sustainable power for today’s generation and the next.

With an unparalleled installed base in over 140 countries, we are the grid ecosystem partner across the utility, industry, data center, and transportation sectors. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 56,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $20 billion USD. We welcome you to apply today.