Senior Business Analyst, AI-Driven Enterprise Platform

Ascentt; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascentt is a data analytics and AI/ML solutions company focused on automotive and manufacturing. We seek a Senior Business Analyst to drive enterprise platform requirements, collaborate with product leadership and client stakeholders, and ensure clear, testable user stories with acceptance criteria.

You will help shape AI-enabled capabilities and ensure successful validation with users. You will lead client workshops, translate complex needs into structured requirements, maintain traceability,

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Business Analysis, Product Business Analysis, Business Systems Analysis, or a comparable role supporting enterprise technology products or solutions.
• Strong experience analyzing business processes and translating complex business needs into structured functional requirements.
• Ability to rapidly develop functional understanding of complex enterprise business processes without requiring deep prior expertise in a specific business domain.
• Demonstrated experience leading substantive client or stakeholder working sessions, with the ability to engage stakeholders through questioning, analysis, and constructive challenge.
• Strong experience developing user stories and clear, testable acceptance criteria; hands-on proficiency with Jira in Agile product-development environments.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with software development teams to refine and groom requirements, and a strong functional understanding of software development and testing lifecycles.
• Experience developing test scenarios, reviewing QA test cases, supporting functional testing, and participating in UAT.
• Ability to identify business-process gaps, edge cases, exceptions, dependencies, risks, and impacts.
• Experience working with distributed teams, including onsite and offshore development and QA teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including workshop facilitation, presentation, and stakeholder management; ability to synthesize complex or unstructured discussions into clear decisions, requirements, and actions.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Lead client working sessions and requirements workshops to uncover underlying business needs.
• Translate directions into structured functional requirements, user journeys, processes, rules, and user stories.
• Maintain traceability from needs to requirements, stories, testing, and feedback.
• Collaborate with distributed teams to refine the backlog and clarify requirements during development.
• Partner with QA to define scenarios and review test coverage beyond the happy path.
• Prepare client teams to evaluate functionality and lead UAT sessions.
• Capture and triage client feedback, assign owners, and drive resolution.
• Provide readiness recommendations to product leadership for features and pilots.
• Develop evaluation scenarios for AI-assisted capabilities, considering output quality and guardrails.

Skills

Business analysis

Stakeholder management

Jira

Workshop facilitation

Requirements gathering

UAT

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline

Tools

Visio

Lucidchart

Miro

Figma

Job description

Ascentt is a data analytics and AI/ML solutions company focused on automotive and manufacturing. We seek a Senior Business Analyst to drive enterprise platform requirements, collaborate with product leadership and client stakeholders, and ensure clear, testable user stories with acceptance criteria.

You will help shape AI-enabled capabilities and ensure successful validation with users. You will lead client workshops, translate complex needs into structured requirements, maintain traceability,