Business analyst

Job Role: Business Analyst
Location: Hybrid at local offices
Long Term Contact
No C2C only W2

Level Required for Primary Skill Advanced (8 years of US experience)

Role Summary:

As a Business Systems Analyst you will act as a liaison between IS and divisional stakeholders to maintain enhance and integrate firm systems data and AI-enabled capabilities. You will proactively identify enterprise technology opportunities and/or serve on formal project teams to deliver new systems data products and AI solutions. Your role involves translating complex business needs into clear testable specifications for data engineering and AI/ML teams.

Responsibilities:Develop a deep understanding of how enterprise systems data platforms and AI services interact-and how changes affect firm operations and initiatives.

• Partner with stakeholders to define AI use cases and success measures; document current-state pain points and future-state workflows.
• Elicit and translate requirements into actionable specifications (functional and non-functional) including data readiness performance availability and auditability needs for AI-enabled features.
• Map data structures and elements to business processes ensuring accurate documentation of data lineage definitions usage and access controls.
• Create and maintain artifacts such as business process models data flow diagrams prototypes business requirements use cases/user stories acceptance criteria and test cases.
• Support AI solution design by documenting model inputs/outputs decision points human-in-the-loop steps and integration patterns (e.g. APIs event streaming batch pipelines).
• Partner with data and AI/ML teams on model lifecycle needs: training/validation data requirements evaluation criteria monitoring requirements (e.g. drift performance) and operational handoffs.
• Collaborate with risk privacy security and compliance stakeholders to capture AI-related controls and governance requirements (e.g. data handling model transparency/explainability expectations escalation paths).
• Analyze the lifecycle of financial transactions (e.g. checks wires ACH) tracking data generation transformation and consumption to support analytics and AI use cases.
• Gain proficiency in data ingestion tools (e.g. Qlik Replicate) and streaming platforms (e.g. Kafka) and help define requirements for reliable scalable data movement.
• Execute and present written and verbal business systems impact analyses that identify high-impact systemic solutions.
• Help reinforce Business Systems Analyst principles and practices across the team (standards templates requirement quality and test readiness).

Role requirements:

• Minimum 3 years of experience designing and implementing functional systems and structured data processes.
• Bachelors degree required; emphasis in Computer Science or MIS preferred (or equivalent work experience).
• Experience translating requirements for data engineering integrations and/or analytics solutions.
• Proven experience as a Business Systems Analyst or Business Analyst in data- and platform-intensive environments.
• Experience supporting AI/ML-enabled products (or strong interest in learning) including model lifecycle considerations evaluation and monitoring.
• Ability to design new business processes and data usage patterns that improve efficiency and control.
• Ability to quickly grasp complex business processes and data relationships and turn them into clear testable requirements.
• Experience or willingness to learn data replication (Qlik Replicate) and streaming technologies (Kafka).
• Strong skills in Microsoft Office to create working prototypes; ability to learn evolving reporting and analytics platforms (e.g. Tableau and other BI tools).
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey technical concepts (data integrations AI behavior/limitations) to non-technical stakeholders.
• Familiarity with financial transactions (e.g. ACH wires checks) is a plus.