Senior Product Owner / Business Analyst

About the role

This position is for a Senior Product Owner / Business Analyst who owns the full requirements lifecycle, from gathering and documenting needs to translating them into user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules and process flows. The role acts as the main functional point of contact for Development and QA, defines integration requirements and leads stakeholder reviews, demos and UAT.

Key responsibilities

• Gather, analyse, validate and document requirements; define requirements for system integrations (data exchange, validations, error scenarios)
• Translate business needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules and process flows
• Own and prioritise the product backlog, and document workflows, dependencies, edge cases and expected system behaviour
• Lead stakeholder reviews, demos, UAT and sign-off
• Define requirements for system integrations
• Drive Scrum activities: refinement, sprint planning and reviews
• Manage scope and change requests

Required profile

• 5-7 years as a Product Owner, Business Analyst or combined PO/BA in software development
• Experience delivering custom-built platforms from scratch or heavily customised solutions
• Strong requirements elicitation, documentation and stakeholder management
• Direct hands-on work with Development and QA teams
• Fluent Arabic and English; occasional travel required
• Scrum/PO certification required (CSPO, PSPO or equivalent)
• Nice to have: KSA government or semi-government experience, fintech or banking experience, PMI-ACP, CBAB or PMI-PBA, SQL skills

Required skills

• Writing user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules and process flows
• Jira and Confluence
• Agile/Scrum and the SDLC