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Senior BA / Product Owner
Leading solution design and stakeholder engagement.
Solution DesignStakeholder Mgmt
About This Role
You shape solution strategy and own stakeholder relationships. Your focus shifts from analysis to design leadership and product ownership.
Key Skills to Develop
- → Lead solution design workshops using design thinking and prototyping
- → Own the product roadmap and prioritise the backlog against strategic goals
- → Facilitate difficult stakeholder negotiations and trade-off decisions
- → Evaluate build vs. buy options and lead vendor selection
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AI for This Role
Practical ways to use AI in your day-to-day work.
- ▸ Use AI to evaluate build vs. buy options — describe the problem and let AI generate a comparison matrix with costs, risks, and timelines
- ▸ Ask AI to draft a product roadmap narrative from a list of features and strategic goals
- ▸ Generate MoSCoW prioritisation of backlog items by describing each feature's value and effort
- ▸ Use AI to prepare talking points for difficult stakeholder negotiations or trade-off discussions
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Next Steps
- 1 Transition into a Product Owner role if you enjoy agile environments
- 2 Develop enterprise-level stakeholder management skills
- 3 Consider architecture certifications (TOGAF, Zachman)
- 4 Build expertise in a specific industry or solution domain
