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Product Developer Lead Specialist / Business Lead Analyst

Job Req Id:
25902058
Location(s):
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Job Type:
Hybrid
Posted:
Sep. 12, 2025

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Job Overview

The IT Business Lead Analyst is a senior-level position responsible for liaising between business users and technologists to exchange information in a concise, logical and understandable way in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to contribute to continuous iterative exploration and investigation of business performance and other measures to gain insight and drive business planning.

Responsibilities:

  • The Product Development Senior Specialist is responsible for activities related to the development of new products and/or features and functionality of products including developing business cases, requirements definition (BRDs), product enhancements innovation, feature and functionality definition based on market and industry research and trends and client needs
  • This role executes on the end-to-end product development lifecycle and will also scope product releases, agreeing to and tracking business priorities, incorporating regulatory and compliance requirements and investment tracking
  • Identifies, gathers, and organizes client insights, internal innovation ideas, marketplace analyses and trends to drive to new concepts
  • Creates a product vision aligned to business priorities and corresponding road-map to delivery
  • Follows market, industry and client trends to own field and adapts them for application Citi’s products and solutions platforms
  • Conceptualizes, plans, prioritizes, coordinates design and delivery of products or features to product release, and serves as product ambassador within user community
  • Works in close co-ordination with Technology, Business Managers and other stakeholders to fulfill the delivery objectives
  • Manages and implements a wide variety of products and solutions
  • Identifies solutions ranging across data analytics, reporting, CRM, Trade Workflows and trade processing
  • Has responsibility to deliver direct business results and advice regarding product development that necessitates a degree of responsibility over technical strategy
  • Partners with business leaders and a widely distributed global user community to define and implement solutions
  • Creates project plans, business and technical requirements documents for product execution
  • Has direct interaction with sales, business managers and technology, to understand their long term vision, discuss industry trends, and incorporate them into the product & solutions strategy
  • Focuses on controls and governance, including performing Need-to-Know based security and access reviews, Access Approvals, controls testing and documentation
  • Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.
  • Provide input during development and implementation phases, including formulation and definition of systems scope, objectives and necessary system enhancements for complex, high-impact projects
  • Identify and communicate risks and impacts and propose risk mitigation options, considering business implications of the application of technology to the current business environment
  • Consult with business clients to determine system functional specifications and partner with multiple management teams and other units to meet organizational objectives
  • Evaluate new IT developments and evolving business requirements and recommend appropriate systems alternatives and/or enhancements to current systems by analyzing business processes, systems and industry standards
  • Provide in-depth and sophisticated analyses with interpretive thinking to define problems, develop innovative solutions and influence strategic functional decisions
  • Supervise day-to-day staff management issues, including resource management, work allocation, mentoring/coaching and other duties and functions as assigned
  • Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications:

  • 6-10 years of relevant experience
  • Intellectual curiosity, analytical and conceptual thinker
  • Proactively seeks and develops new opportunities
  • Attention to detail and process/analytic mindset
  • Ability to build networks and relationships internally and externally
  • Familiarity with product development methodologies
  • Direct experience in end-to-end project delivery, preferably in product development
  • Comfortable with performing data investigations that require a high degree of accuracy with tight timescales
  • Ability to create business analysis, troubleshoot data quality issues, and conduct exploratory and descriptive analysis of business datasets
  • Ability to structure and break down problems, develop solutions, and to drive to results
  • Process Management knowledge with a propensity for detail and comprehensiveness of content
  • Ability to collaborate and clearly communicate with team members of an organization
  • Project Management skills with experience leading large cross functional initiatives
  • Generation of reports and presentations for management

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Business Analysis / Client Services

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Time Type:

Full time

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Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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