Senior Business Analyst, AI & Data

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Senior Business Analyst guiding enterprise clients through AI and data transformations at phData, a remote-first data and AI consultancy. Defining requirements, value streams, AI workflows, and measurable business outcomes.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead interviews and workshops with executives, IT, and business stakeholders to uncover root-cause problems and define project vision, scope, and success metrics
  • Align solutions with enterprise business strategy and clear business outcomes
  • Map current-state and future-state value streams and business processes
  • Identify bottlenecks and automation or AI opportunities
  • Quantify benefits such as cycle time, error reduction, capacity, and CSAT
  • Elicit, analyze, and document functional and non-functional requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria for data, AI/ML, and GenAI features
  • Capture business rules, decision logic, and user journeys
  • Define data requirements, including sources, quality, latency, and privacy constraints
  • Specify model behavior, guardrails, human-in-the-loop interactions, performance, explainability, auditability, and SLAs
  • Build consensus across complex organizational hierarchies and goals
  • Support PoCs and pilots through test design, feedback loops, training, SOP updates, and communications
  • Partner with architects and developers to ensure designs meet business needs and oversee UAT
  • Own the quality and readiness of BA deliverables and coach project team members
  • Drive alignment among business objectives, implementation, and success metrics
  • Use Generative AI tools such as Claude, Glean, and agents to accelerate analysis, documentation, and solution design
  • Establish and maintain strong customer relationships as a trusted advisor

Requirements:

  • 6+ years of experience in business analysis or product development in the data and analytics industry
  • 4+ years of experience in a client-facing consulting environment
  • Ability to facilitate interviews and workshops across multiple domains and organizational levels
  • Ability to translate ambiguous needs into structured requirements and user stories
  • Exceptional communication and presentation skills
  • Expertise in Agile life cycles and tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Visio, or similar
  • Hands-on experience leveraging AI to accelerate business analysis activities in client delivery
  • Understanding of adoption and change management approaches
  • Familiarity with industry-standard strategy frameworks
  • Comfort with ambiguity and strong curiosity
  • Ability to coach and mentor others and contribute to reusable BA artifacts
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Benefits:

  • Remote work
  • Opportunity to work for a remote-first data and AI consultancy
  • Real ownership over work
  • Opportunity to work with Snowflake, AWS, Anthropic, Glean, dbt, Fivetran, KNIME, and other leading technology partners
  • Professional coaching and mentoring opportunities
  • Inclusive work environment
  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Disability accommodation support