Business Architect

Project Role : Business Architect
Project Role Description : Identify opportunities to deliver tangible business value by assessing the current state, capturing high-level requirements, and defining business solutions. Translate business needs into technology-enabled solutions and operating models. Support transformation by developing business cases and guiding implementation of key initiatives.
Must have skills : Business Requirements Analysis
Good to have skills : NA
Minimum 12 year(s) of experience is required
Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

Summary
As a Proxy Product Manager, you will be responsible for supporting product strategy, roadmap planning, backlog management, and delivery across cross-functional engineering teams. You will act as a bridge between Product Managers, Product Owners, business stakeholders, engineering, architecture, and QA teams, ensuring that requirements are clearly defined, prioritized, and successfully delivered.
The role requires strong expertise in product lifecycle management, Agile methodologies, requirements engineering, stakeholder management, and delivery planning, with the ability to independently drive product decisions and priorities in alignment with the overall product vision.

Roles & Responsibilities:
-Support the Product Manager in defining product vision, roadmap, priorities, and release plans.
-Own and manage the product backlog, ensuring effective prioritization.
-Translate business and customer needs into epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
-Collaborate with engineering, architecture, QA, UX, and business teams for successful delivery.
-Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, product reviews, and release planning.
-Analyze customer and stakeholder feedback and convert it into actionable product requirements.
-Manage dependencies, risks, priorities, and delivery commitments.
-Act as the Product Manager s representative and make day-to-day product decisions when required.
-Track product progress using KPIs, product metrics, and delivery dashboards.
-Ensure features meet defined business objectives, quality standards, and acceptance criteria.
-Drive alignment across multiple teams and stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle.
-Mentor Product Owners/Business Analysts and promote Agile product management practices.

Professional & Technical Skills:

-10+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Ownership, Business Analysis, or Software Delivery.
-Strong hands-on experience with Agile/Scrum, product backlog management, and SDLC.
-Experience with JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.
-Strong understanding of requirements engineering, user stories, acceptance criteria, prioritization, and product roadmaps.
-Experience working closely with software engineering, architecture, QA, and DevOps teams.
-Good understanding of APIs, cloud platforms, microservices, databases, and modern software architecture.
-Experience with product analytics, KPIs, dashboards, and data-driven decision-making.
-Experience in Automotive, Embedded Software, ADAS, ECU, or connected products is an added advantage.
-Strong leadership, ownership, and decision-making skills.
-Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder-management abilities.
-Strong customer and business-outcome orientation.
-Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
-Ability to manage multiple priorities, risks, and dependencies.
-Strong collaboration and influencing skills across cross-functional teams.
-Comfortable working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

Additional Information:

-Bachelor s or Master s degree in in Electronics, Electrical, Instrumentation, Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field.
-Product Management, Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or equivalent certification is an added advantage.

15 years full time education

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