AI Business Analyst

Job Summary:

The AI Business Analyst will be a liaison for product owner(s), cross-functional product development team(s), and shared IT resources and IT management.

Job Duties:

• Collaborates with product owner(s) to understand business needs from the epic and feature level to small actionable user stories
• Proactively manages projects by anticipating potential challenges, identifying solutions, and ensuring timely delivery of AI initiatives
• Works closely with product owners to refine product backlogs and ensure clarity in requirements
• Supports moderate to large AI projects, managing project scope, resources, and timeline
• Follows Agile Scrum values, principles, and processes; ensures clarity of these items for others; provides coaching as needed; and helps the team to enact effective Agile Scrum approaches
• Drives common understanding amongst the product owner and team members, helping define and refine requirements, business rules, technical solutions, and acceptance criteria
• Maximizes business outcomes through product coordination, assists where needed, removes blocks, and maintains the teams focus on delivering value
• Provides frequent status updates and resolves conflicts and removes obstacles
• Elicits, understands, analyzes, and defines business requirements from the user's perspective
• Writes epics, features, and user stories to INVEST Criteria
• Ensures clear acceptance criteria and definition of done
• Contributes to the delivery of AI solutions at scale
• Coordinates and participates in sprint planning and sprint goal setting; ensures highest priorities are being met
• Ensures common understanding of requirements and solutioning among team members
• Joins and participates in daily product standups; provides and receives direct and immediate feedback
• Aids with project documentation including knowledge articles, process flowcharts, functional and regression test scripts
• Coordinates and participates in retrospective meetings
• Facilitates internal communication and effective collaboration and helps teams to implement change effectively
• Shields the team from external interference, allowing for focus on delivery of value
• Helps build a productive environment where team members 'own' the product and enjoy working on it
• Other duties as required
  

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Education:

• High School Diploma / GED, required
• Bachelor's degree with a focus in Computer Science or Business, preferred

Experience:

• Three (3) or more years of experience as a Business Analyst in an Agile Environment, required
• Experience with Project Management, preferred
• Broad business experience within a professional services environment, preferred

License(s)/Certification(s):

• Scrum Master Certification, preferred
• SAFe Certification(s), preferred

Software:

• Experience with one (1) or more of the following, preferred:
  
  
  
  • Chat GPT
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot
  
  

Other Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities effectively
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of conveying technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Interest in emerging technologies and their applications
• Ability to work collaboratively within cross-functional teams
• Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on customer-centric solutions
• Ability to listen and support team members as a collaborative partner
• Effective communicator with strong relationship-building skills
• Ability to handle conflict resolution and achieve consensus
• Passion for quality software and design thinking
• Ability to apply system thinking to day-to-day activities
• Resiliency in ambiguous situations and comfort with transparency, inspection, and adaptation
• Focused on continuous improvement and learning from experience
• Ability to balance team and individual responsibilities
• Commitment to achieving common goals while working ethically and with integrity
• Willingness to work beyond standard business hours and travel as needed
• Ability to travel on a limited basis for firm-sponsored trainings and conferences

Individual salaries that are offered to a candidate are determined after consideration of numerous factors including but not limited to the candidate's qualifications, experience, skills, and geography.

National Range: $95,000 - $115,000
Maryland Range: $95,000 - $115,000
NYC/Long Island/Westchester Range: $95,000 - $115,000