Senior AI Business Analyst

Job Overview

We are seeking multiple Senior AI Business Analysts to join our growing team and help drive the responsible adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across the organization. In this highly collaborative role, you will serve as a strategic liaison between business stakeholders, IT teams, AI engineering, data science, and governance functions to identify, evaluate, and support high-impact AI initiatives.

As an AI Business Analyst, you will help translate complex business challenges into AI-ready opportunities, ensuring use cases are well-defined, aligned with organizational goals, and supported through the full AI lifecycle. You will gather and document requirements, assess data readiness and risk considerations, facilitate cross-functional decision-making, and help establish governance and implementation standards that enable successful AI adoption.

This role is ideal for experienced business analysts who combine strong analytical and requirements management skills with a passion for emerging technologies, data-driven solutions, and responsible AI practices.

The AI Business Analyst serves as a liaison between business stakeholders, IT, and AI governance functions to enable responsible, value-driven use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across the organization. This role supports business-critical and complex AI initiatives by analyzing business needs, clarifying requirements, assessing risk and feasibility, and coordinating lifecycle management processes.

The AI Business Analyst is accountable for ensuring AI use cases are clearly defined, appropriately reviewed, and supported with documentation that enables informed decision-making and establishes clear expectations for implementation.

• Serve as the primary AI lifecycle management and analysis partner, including evaluating suitability for AI, data readiness, risk, and downstream operational impact.
• Partner with data science, AI engineering, architecture, and governance teams to translate business problems into AI-ready problem statements, success metrics, and evaluation criteria.
• Support responsible AI practices by ensuring use cases align with organizational policies related to privacy, security, regulatory compliance, and ethical AI standards.
• Facilitate cross-functional discussions to align on and document AI solution intent, value realization, monitoring approach, and post-deployment ownership.
• Contribute to the development and refinement of AI lifecycle management processes, templates, and standards to enable consistent evaluation and deployment of AI initiatives.
• Gather, analyze, document and manage business and user requirements (both functional and non-functional) to effectively recommend technology solutions that best address the requirements. Identify potential solutions for the business and provide input to issues or risks (through solid knowledge of the business and user requirements). Identify project interdependencies and communicate requirement/scope issues and participate in driving them to resolution for inclusion in the functional specifications.
• Translate business and user requirements in to detailed system requirements for the IT organization and manage all changes to the source documents. Ensure appropriate bi-directional tracing of project modifications back to business and user requirements. Complete project work objects and deliverables Fairview standards. Facilitate walk-through of project deliverables. Assist with the development of the testing strategy - plan thorough requirements testing.
• Demonstrate expert level knowledge in all systems, processes and data relating to the assigned business or project. Leverage domain expertise and analyst practice expertise to provide the most effective solutions to the business partners in the most efficient means possible. Select appropriate analysis techniques and tools (process modeling, use cases, etc.) for each project. Educate business partners on systems capabilities and the feasibility of developing specific solutions.
• Leverage technical knowledge & business acumen to manage effective working relationships with technology teams and business partners at management and end user levels. Work effectively in a team environment to ensure that solution delivery is on time, within cost estimates and meets business needs. Negotiate technical and non-technical solutions that both satisfy the business users and conform to the technical architecture.
  
  Prepare estimates of Business System Analyst work efforts for assigned projects.
• Complete all support documentation on assigned projects, including creating and updating all user and technical procedures/manuals, operational support documentation and archival of all related project documentation. Define and monitor all implementation tasks such as the production check-out process, including review of reports, data files and online screens to ensure technical solutions perform according to the specifications and meet defined business…