Sr Business Analyst (Staff Product Owner)

About Team:   

Digital Engineering is ThermoFisher’s “Software Engineering” centre of excellence in Bengaluru. This provides the elite software and cloud computing service that helps scientists do their work more efficiently and with precision, enabling them to make our world healthier, cleaner, and safer.  

Our premier software products and solutions accelerate scientific discovery and lab productivity. These solutions  provide rich content, selection tools, collaboration tools, and scientific apps that allow our customers to focus on innovation and the complexities of their science.  Create a connected world for our customers where discoveries happen in an inquisitive way, where every device/product is connected, self-aware, and self-healing—thereby enabling efficient workflows and collaborative science.   

We apply industry-standard methodologies to the design, development, and deployment of world-class software products built to demonstrate the power and scalability of the cloud.  

Roles & Responsibilities: 

Purpose:  

The Staff Product Owner provides business and functional expertise and acts as the voice of the customer in articulating and prioritizing desired functionality for the project teams delivering Connect Enterprise. The Staff Product Owner owns the delivery of the team being truly aligned to customer intent and business value. Staff Product Owner is the sole arbiter of the team backlog, but leans on the development team to help refine, chip in, and sequence work. As an indirect leader, the staff product owner ensures that the collaboration is meaningful and impactful. This person is transformational with the requisite functional knowledge to bridge the divide between business intent and execution by the team.  

Responsibilities:   

• Collaborates with global product management partners and customers to co-develop roadmaps and drive products from concept to launch.
• Works with multi-functional teams, including analytics, design/UX, engineering, and user enablement.
• Operates in an Agile environment, continuously reviewing business needs, refining priorities, and foreseeing opportunities and risks.
• Partners with customers and teams to establish product vision, strategy, features, and prioritization.
• Develops and drives product roadmaps, translating them into well-defined requirements, including features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Defines the self-service user experience, support, and supervision for customers, maintaining the sprint backlog while balancing partner requirements.
• Owns the product functional design process, defining and driving go-to-market plans for product management, marketing, and leadership success.
• Manages the team backlog, keeping it organized, relevant, and dynamically elaborated just in time.
• Identifies and drives Non-Functional Requirements (NFR), DevOps, and other technical needs.
• Exhibits Lean-Agile behaviors, helping the team embrace SAFe Core Values, Principles, and practices.
• Actively participates in team meetings, including Daily Stand-up, Iteration Planning, Review, and Retrospective.
• Works with the Release Train Engineer, Product Management, and Scrum Master to ensure team preparedness for program-level events like PI Planning, Inspect and Adapt (I&A), and demos.
• Assists in ART activities, guiding the team to establish normalized estimates and understand how to estimate Features and Capabilities.
• Builds information radiators for visibility and clarity between development teams, partners, and the organization, reporting trends and innovations for process efficiency.
• Anticipates needs and problems in the development cycle, asking difficult questions and bringing fresh opinions, viewing challenges and change as opportunities.
• Ensures adherence to QMS (ISO9001:2015) & ISMS (ISO 27001) standards, leading process changes and supporting audits.
• Promotes process automation and collaborative environments that foster experimentation, creativity, and innovation.
• Highly motivated, fast learner who can self-start and solve problems independently.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, efficiently detailing artifacts and processes, and explaining them to others.

Candidate Requirement:  

Education: Bachelor's in engineering or master's in computer science with 6+ years of proven experience

Mandatory Skills, Knowledge, and Experience: 

• Minimum 6 years of experience in software development as a developer or Business Analyst.  

• Minimum 1 year of working experience in the SAFe framework  

• Minimum 2 years of experience as a developer, tester, or PO working on projects using technologies like Java, Angular, AWS, Jenkins, etc.   

• Experience, instincts, and passion around testing and testability, and driving quality objectives  

• Balance of technical knowledge and business

• Experience in driving implementation and reporting of Non-Functional Requirements (NFR – Security, Performance, Cost, etc.)  

• Proven track record of delivering data-driven solutions with a customer-first approach  

• Established background in launching software or services in partnership with engineering teams and a high degree of proficiency in prototyping, iterative development, and understanding of Agile principles  

• Experience successfully driving end-to-end delivery of data and intelligence solutions, including a wide variety of mechanisms, e.g., dashboards, APIs, real-time alerts, etc.  

• Experience working with geographically dispersed teams . High degree of organization, individual initiative, and personal accountability . Strong communication and influence on business and technical teams  

Nice to Have Skills, Knowledge, and Experience:  

• Experience in working and running the Atlassian suite tool  

• Have experience and knowledge of the Kanban framework  & completed Scrum certifications.  

• Experience in the adoption of QMS (ISO9001:2015) & ISMS (ISO 27001)