Senior Business Analyst - AI Focus Chicago, IL - WFH 2 days/week; Onsite 3 days/week in the loopSummary: The Senior Business Analyst will focus on researching, evaluating, analyzing and recommending AI use cases, vendors and products that drive enterprise value. The BA will interface with key business stakeholders to understand business goals, and work with external vendors and internal IT to drive solutions that meet these goals, largely as it relates to AI - which is a big initiative for this company.
GPTs, LLMs and NLP are areas of particular interest in AI in this role.
In this role you will ensure that new applications integrate into existing systems, and be heavily involved in the implementation process of new solutions to ensure the solutions are implemented in accordance with business requirements. You will also oversee relevant change management as it relates to new solutions being implemented.
What you'll be doing - Partner with business stakeholders to understand and prioritize their needs, creating a roadmap of projects for their assigned area.
- Seek input of user experience and business analysts to determine potential improvements to their assigned products.
- Preparation and analysis of business user needs into the necessary documentation (requirements, use cases, traceability matrix, design documentation, test scripts)
- Monitor and perform work related to incoming requests from business stakeholders for changes, updates, and other technical issues to the marketing applications, intranet site, external websites, blogs and other digital properties.
- Stay abreast of best practices being done at other companies and technology developments that may impact the area. Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders and the Senior Portfolio Manager to influence the technology decisions for the area based on this knowledge.
- Analyze and consolidate all perspectives on the project - business needs, user experience, security, training, risk, time, cost, technology architecture, procurement/vendor management, operational considerations, etc. - to help the company reach the best technology decisions.
- Drives project and business teams toward achieving intended business results within a specified time and budget.
- Manages the lifecycle of their assigned products and applications, from inception to implementation, throughout production until retirement / upgrade.
Skills we're seeking - 5+ years of experience as an IT Business Analyst
- Experience working on projects related to AI, Machine Learning, Data Science, LLMs, GPTs, NLP or other relevant subject matter
Nice to haves - Bachelor's Degree in IT, Statistics or a related field
- Experience with Knowledge Management
- Experience working in the legal industry