Sr Business Analyst- AI/ML

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Senior Business Analyst is responsible for eliciting, organizing, analyzing and documenting requirements across project teams, with a focus on leveraging AI (predictive, generative, etc.) solutions. As a key liaison between the business units and the IT department, the Senior Business Analyst ensures that the scope of work requested, including enhancements, defects and new requests, is clearly documented, communicated, and validated.

Working closely with data scientists, AI engineers and stakeholders, the Senior Business Analyst plays a crucial role in designing, developing and deploying AI-powered solutions. The role also involves internal product ownership responsibilities for IT-driven products and may be asked to lead projects and mentor other Business Analysts.

The ideal candidate is curious and driven, has strong analytical skills, and the ability to leverage their understanding of AI technologies and its application to solve business problems

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Acts as a liaison with stakeholders to analyze the needs of various functional business areas while enhancing software and reinforcing business standards.

• Creates detailed documentation of functional, system (non-functional), user and reporting requirements that may include but is not limited to:  Use Cases, Logical Models, Process Flow Diagrams, Report Specifications and Data Mapping & Flow Diagrams

• Works with IT leadership and business stakeholders to prioritize initiatives and manage the overall AI portfolio and roadmap.

• Translates complex AI concepts into appropriate business terms to aid stakeholder understanding.

• Performs research and analysis for proposed projects to determine feasibility and durability.

• Performs profiling and analysis of data from source systems.

• Ensures  that solution requirements area clearly documented, communicated, and validated.

• Provides support to functional and user acceptance testing groups throughout development life cycle.

• Assists with the creation of value proposition (ROI) for proposed projects.

• Helps the team to define and control scope for development initiatives  and release schedule.

• Works jointly with other IT Managers to create detailed work plans for software development and enhancement projects.

• Responsible for status reporting, knowledge transfer  and implementation plans as appropriate for the software solution being developed.

• Builds and maintains relationships with software application vendors and implementation partners.

• Instructs, directs, guides, and checks the work of Business Analysts

• Collaborates closely with data scientists and AI engineers to identify opportunities to implement AI solutions.

• Performs other duties as assigned or apparent.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience using Structured Query Language (SQL) and familiarity with Python for data analysis/manipulation

• Business Analysis or Project Management Professional certification.

• Confident and adept written and verbal communication

• Understanding of AI concepts and their application to solve business problems

• Tangible experience bringing AI / Machine Learning projects to production strongly preferred

• AI or machine learning certification a plus.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, computer engineering, information systems, finance, statistics, computer science or a related field or equivalent experience. 

• Minimum of 5 years of direct work experience in a business analyst capacity working with business systems related to systems support, analysis, or development. 

• Minimum of 1 year project management/coordination tracking and organizing business analysis documentation for projects. 

Rewarding Compensation and Benefits

Eligible employees can elect to participate in:
• Comprehensive medical benefits coverage, dental plans and vision coverage.
• Health care and dependent care spending accounts. 
• Short- and long-term disability.
• Life insurance and accidental death & dismemberment insurance.
• Employee and Family Assistance Program (EAP).
• Employee discount programs.
• Retirement plan with