Senior Software Engineer - Product Owner

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Job Title: Senior Software Engineer - Product Owner

Position: Senior Software Engineer

Experience: 6 Years

Category: Software Development/ Engineering

Shift: 1pm to 10pm

Work Mode: 5 days in Office

Primary location: India, Karnataka, Bangalore

CGI Office: E city Bangalore

Position ID:J0626-1964

Employment Type: Full Time

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent), with a minimum of 7 years of professional, relevant software development experience.

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Your future duties and responsibilities

We are seeking a high impact Mid–Senior Product Owner to drive delivery and execution within our Wealth Management technology platform. This role acts as the critical bridge between Product Management, Engineering, and Business Stakeholders, translating strategic objectives into actionable delivery plans.

Looking for a Lead Product Owner to own execution, backlog management, PI planning, and cross team alignment to ensure value driven delivery. The ideal candidate combines strong business acumen, agile execution expertise, and technical understanding, along with a forward looking mindset on AI/Copilot adoption.

Key Responsibilities

1. Product Execution & Delivery

. Own and manage the product backlog, ensuring alignment with Product Manager–defined goals.

. Break down high level objectives into well defined epics, features, and user stories.

. Ensure consistent delivery of high quality product increments aligned with PI objectives.

. Partner with Engineering teams to remove blockers and optimize delivery cadence.

. Track and report on progress, risks, dependencies, and outcomes.

2. Cross Team Collaboration

. Act as a liaison across multiple teams, including: Engineering (frontend, backend, data) Architecture QA / Testing Business stakeholders (Wealth Advisors, Operations, Compliance)

. Align multiple workstreams to ensure end to end product coherence.

. Facilitate dependency management across Agile Release Trains (ARTs) or squads.

3. Requirements Gathering & Refinement

. Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs in wealth management (portfolios, advisory, compliance, client reporting, etc.).

. Translate requirements into clear, actionable user stories with acceptance criteria.

. Conduct backlog grooming sessions and ensure readiness for sprints/PI planning.

. Validate delivered features through UAT and stakeholder feedback loops.

4. PI Planning & Agile Leadership

. Actively participate in and support: Program Increment (PI) Planning Sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives

. Ensure alignment of team commitments with business priorities.

. Drive predictability in delivery through effective planning and prioritization.

. Advocate and enforce Agile and SAFe best practices.

5. Copilot & AI Enablement

. Champion Microsoft Copilot / AI adoption within product delivery teams.

. Identify opportunities to: Improve developer productivity Enhance requirements generation and documentation Optimize testing and quality processes

. Drive experimentation, adoption, and governance of AI assisted workflows.

. Partner with engineering leadership to embed AI first ways of working.

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Required qualifications to be successful in this role

Must to have skills :

Product Ownership & Agile Delivery

Strong experience as a Product Owner (Mid–Senior / Lead level)

Hands-on experience with backlog management, sprint planning, PI planning

Expertise in Agile / SAFe frameworks

Ability to define epics, features, user stories with acceptance criteria

Experience in delivery tracking, risk & dependency management

Good to have skills :

Experience or exposure to Microsoft Copilot / AI tools

Understanding of AI-driven productivity improvements

Experience driving AI adoption within teams

Knowledge of AI-assisted workflows (testing, documentation, development)

Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals.

Come join our team - one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.