Senior Business Analyst, Digital Marketplaces & AI – Remote

Be Consultancy Group BV; Maharashtra; Remote; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Be Consultancy Group BV is seeking a Senior Business Analyst for a remote role focusing on Digital Marketplaces and AI-enabled discovery. You will translate user needs into clear product requirements, data models and engineering-ready specs, working with UX/UI, developers and global stakeholders.

The role blends business analysis, product ownership and Agile delivery to shape a scalable discovery platform and catalog systems, with a strong emphasis on AI-assisted search and metadata governance.

Qualifications

• First-level university degree in a related discipline.
• Professional certification in BA or Product Management.
• 10+ years IT experience, including 7+ years in BA/PO/PM delivering software.
• Direct experience delivering a catalog-style product (marketplace/registry/data catalog).
• Experience in product discovery, search functionality, metadata modelling and lifecycle governance.
• Experience defining requirements for AI/ML-powered features with human-in-the-loop review.

Responsibilities

• Lead business analysis and requirements gathering through stakeholder interviews and workshops.
• Define user personas, journeys and discovery workflows for catalog solutions.
• Analyse marketplace, repository and catalog options including costs and sustainability.
• Design catalog structures, metadata models and content governance.
• Translate requirements into user stories, acceptance criteria and backlog.
• Define requirements for AI-assisted search, recommendations and metadata generation.
• Own Agile delivery activities including backlog refinement and sprint planning.
• Coordinate UAT and support continuous product improvement.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

User personas & journeys

Backlog ownership

AI/ML concepts

Data modeling

API/data formats

Communication

English proficiency

Education

University degree in Business Administration/CS/Info Sys

BA/PO/PM certification such as IIBA CCBA/CBAP, PMI-PBA

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Confluence

Job description

Senior Business Analyst, Digital Marketplaces & AI – Remote

We are looking for a Senior Business Analyst with strong experience in digital marketplaces, catalog platforms, product discovery and AI-assisted features. You will help shape and deliver a digital Tools and Resources Marketplace, translating user needs into clear product requirements, structured data models and engineering-ready specifications.

This role combines business analysis, product ownership and Agile delivery, working closely with UX/UI designers, developers and international stakeholders to build a scalable, user-centred discovery platform.

Remote – European working hours – 10+ years IT experience – Fluent English

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Lead business analysis and requirements gathering through stakeholder interviews, workshops and community engagement activities, including collaborative design sessions.
  
• Define user personas, customer journeys and discovery workflows, covering artifact search, evaluation, comparison, contribution and adoption.
  
• Analyse existing marketplace, repository and catalog solutions, evaluating build, adopt or extend options, including costs, dependencies and long-term sustainability.
  
• Design catalog structures, metadata models and content governance, including classification, relationships, quality indicators and artifact lifecycle management.
  
• Translate requirements into user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, data models and a prioritized product backlog.
  
• Define requirements for AI-assisted search, recommendations and metadata generation, including confidence thresholds, human-in-the-loop validation, search relevance and performance criteria.
  
• Own day-to-day Agile delivery activities, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, prioritization, dependency management and collaboration with engineering teams.
  
• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT), validate delivered functionality, assess discovery quality and support continuous product improvement.
  

Profile

• First-level university degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Science, Information Systems, Health Informatics or a related discipline.
  
• Professional certification in Business Analysis or Product Management, such as IIBA CCBA/CBAP, PMI-PBA or a recognized Product Owner certification.
  
• 10+ years of IT experience, including at least 7 years as a Business Analyst, Product Owner or Product Manager delivering software products.
  
• Direct experience delivering at least one catalog-style product, such as a marketplace, registry, repository, package index, model hub or data catalog, with responsibility for content classification, metadata, listing or discovery.
  
• Proven experience in product discovery, search functionality, metadata modelling and content lifecycle governance, including publication, updates, deprecation and removal.
  
• Experience defining requirements and acceptance criteria for AI/ML-powered features, including AI-generated outputs, human-in-the-loop review and confidence thresholds.
  
• Strong experience with Agile delivery, backlog ownership, sprint planning and day-to-day collaboration with software engineering teams.
  
• Expertise in user stories, acceptance criteria, personas, journey mapping, process flows, entity-relationship models and data dictionaries.
  
• Ability to create low-fidelity wireframes and interface concepts, working closely with UX/UI designers to validate user requirements.
  
• Strong technical understanding of APIs, database schemas, XML, JSON, CSV, Git-based workflows and tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps or Confluence.
  
• Excellent facilitation, stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with international communities.
  
• Expert written and spoken English.
  

Experience with public health, epidemiology, research software ecosystems or open science infrastructure would be an advantage.