Senior AI Strategy & Digital Transformation Analyst

Zion Cloud Solutions; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Zion Cloud Solutions seeks a Senior Business Analyst to support a State Government AI Strategy and Digital Transformation initiative in a hybrid Chicago, IL setting. You will translate business priorities into actionable requirements and help shape AI roadmap and POC execution.

Responsibilities include stakeholder workshops, backlog grooming in Azure DevOps, and collaboration with AI architects and solution teams to deliver measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a BA in state government or public sector tech.
• Strong requirements gathering, process analysis, stakeholder engagement, and documentation.
• Hands-on Azure DevOps (ADO) for backlog, epics, features, user stories, and acceptance.
• Experience with Agile teams, solution architects, developers, testers.
• Strong communication, analytical and facilitation skills.

Responsibilities

• Stakeholder engagement through workshops to understand needs and priorities.
• Document processes, functional requirements, user journeys, and acceptance criteria.
• Backlog management in Azure DevOps with epics, features, and user stories.
• Identify AI opportunities and prioritize use cases for AI, automation, Document AI, and LLMs.
• Translate business needs into AI initiatives, dependencies, and roadmaps.
• Define POC requirements, success criteria, test scenarios, and validation.
• Ensure solutions address real business problems and align business/tech teams.
• Maintain process flows, decisions, logs, and project documentation.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Requirements gathering

Backlog management (ADO)

AI use case discovery

Strategy & roadmap support

POC support

Customer advocacy

Documentation & communication

Tools

Azure DevOps (ADO)

Job description

Zion Cloud Solutions seeks a Senior Business Analyst to support a State Government AI Strategy and Digital Transformation initiative in a hybrid Chicago, IL setting. You will translate business priorities into actionable requirements and help shape AI roadmap and POC execution.

Responsibilities include stakeholder workshops, backlog grooming in Azure DevOps, and collaboration with AI architects and solution teams to deliver measurable outcomes.