Business Analyst/Product Owner

Overview

Join Hitachi Energy's Product Management and Technology Delivery team as a Business Analyst/Product Owner in Bangalore, bridging business stakeholders, product management, architecture, engineering and quality assurance to ensure features are analyzed, refined and ready before development.

What you'll do

• 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.

What you'll need

• 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.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of probabilistic forecasting.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
• Hybrid working model.
• Full-time employment.
• Pre-employment background checks, which may include enhanced or additional screening for certain roles, conducted with candidate notification and consent where required.