AI-Driven IT & Data Analytics Lead

Jobtailor; Deerfield Beach (FL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks a senior Business Analyst to lead discovery, elicit requirements, and translate business needs into detailed functional, data, and integration requirements. You will drive traceability across design, development, testing, deployment, and value realization, collaborating with architects, developers, and stakeholders to deliver measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities include leading UAT, coordinating with executives and teams, and leveraging AI-enabled tools to enhance documentation

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years as a Business/IT/Data Analyst or similar role.
• Experience supporting IT projects, enhancements, or operational tech initiatives.
• Lead discovery, facilitation, analysis, solution definition, and cross-functional alignment.
• Develop business, functional, non-functional, data, reporting, integration, and acceptance requirements.
• Strong data analysis: profiling, trends, anomalies, and source-to-target mapping.
• Experience with enterprise systems, APIs, data flows, reporting, or migrations.
• Familiar with Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery; backlog, UAT, release support.
• Familiar with AI-enabled tools, responsible AI use, data quality, validation, and value assessment.
• Ability to communicate with executives, users, vendors, architects, developers, testers, ops teams.
• Strong critical thinking, problem framing, facilitation, documentation, prioritization, decision-support.
• Emotional intelligence, interpersonal skills, adaptability with standards.
• Preferred: experience with enterprise finance/investment platforms.
• Preferred: familiarity with product management practices.
• Preferred: CBAP/CCBA/PMI-PBA/CSPO/CSM/SAFe or AI/data analytics certs.

Responsibilities

• Lead structured discovery and requirements elicitation with stakeholders.
• Translate goals, pain points, risks into detailed requirements across domains.
• Develop and maintain processes, data definitions, mappings, and acceptance criteria.
• Use AI-enabled tools to enhance documentation and quality.
• Assess automation and AI opportunities with risk and value assessments.
• Support evaluations, RFI/RFP activities, scorecards, and vendor recommendations.
• Perform data analysis to validate assumptions, quality, and trends.
• Collaborate with architects, data engineers, security, risk, and operations.
• Support Agile/Waterfall/hybrid delivery with backlog, sprint, and UAT readiness.
• Ensure end-to-end requirements traceability across design to value realization.
• Lead UAT planning, test scenarios, defect triage, and sign-off readiness.
• Communicate complex topics clearly to executives and teams.

Skills

Requirements Elicitation

Data Analysis

Agile Methodologies

Stakeholder Communication

AI-Enabled Tools

Critical Thinking

Facilitation

Emotional Intelligence

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Business, Data Analytics, Computer Science

Tools

Enterprise Systems

APIs

Reporting Platforms

Automation Tools

Data Quality Tools

Job description

Jobtailor seeks a senior Business Analyst to lead discovery, elicit requirements, and translate business needs into detailed functional, data, and integration requirements. You will drive traceability across design, development, testing, deployment, and value realization, collaborating with architects, developers, and stakeholders to deliver measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities include leading UAT, coordinating with executives and teams, and leveraging AI-enabled tools to enhance documentation