AI Project Business Analyst

Job description

**Location:** Bangalore, IN **Company:** Alstom **Your future role** Take on a new challenge and apply your **Business Analyst and Project Management** skills in the exciting cutting-edge field of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. You'll work alongside collaborative and forward-thinking teammates. You'll play a pivotal role in ensuring effective delivery of enterprise grade digital and AI-enabled initiatives to support operational excellence at Alstom. Day to day, you'll collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to shape AI use cases end-to-end from problem framing and feasibility, through requirements and backlog refinement, to planning and tracking project activities, managing timelines and milestones, and supporting coordination across business, PMO, and delivery teams. You'll contribute to solution design discussions, assist in backlog refinement, and help ensure smooth execution and adoption of digital initiatives. **Well look to you for:** - Translating business needs into clear, functional and nonfunctional specifications and high-quality documentation - Scoping AI use cases with stakeholders and defining success metrics/KPIs and acceptance criteria - Supporting project planning, scheduling, milestone tracking and dependency management - Organising discovery workshops and design thinking sessions to identify, prioritise and refine AI opportunities - Conducting stakeholder analysis, gap and impact assessments, and maintaining traceability across requirements - Collaborating with Data Scientists and Data Engineers, Architects, development teams and PMO to ensure alignment - Ensure alignment on feasibility, requirements, dependencies and delivery constraints across teams - Managing product backlogs (epics, features, user stories) and supporting Agile ceremonies in Jira/Azure DevOps/Confluence - Preparing project artefacts (RAID logs, dashboards, status reports, documentation) - Coordinating with crossfunctional teams to track deliverables and resolve issues. Driving UAT planning, test coordination, defect management, training and adoption activities - Identifying and tracking risks across scope, timelines, resources, governance and compliance. - Supporting change management activities: communication, training coordination, onboarding and postdeployment followup - Demonstrating curiosity, resilience, and a continuous-learning mindset to evaluate new tools while ensuring value delivery - Exposure to agentic AI platforms like Copilot Studio, M365 Copilot, Dataiku and LibreChat to support development of AI prototypes/PoCs will be a plus **All about you** We value curiosity, ownership and a growth mindset. That's why we don't expect you to have every single skill. Instead, we've listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role: - Bachelors degree in IT, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data/Analytics, or equivalent with technical exposure - 5-10 years experience as a Business Analyst, Project Manager or similar role in enterprise-scale initiatives - Proven experience in requirements engineering (BRD/FRD, user stories, process modelling such as BPMN/UML, prioritization techniques, acceptance criteria) - Experience planning and coordinating multistakeholder projects, including RAID and project dashboards - Proficiency with BA/PM tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, MS Project, Excel and PowerPoint - Strong communication and facilitation skills to interact with business and technical teams and translate complex AI/technical topics for nontechnical audiences - Good understanding of Agile and/or Waterfall project delivery frameworks - Experience supporting UAT, change management and user training for digital solutions - Familiarity with data analytics and reporting tools like Power BI and Qlik Sense - Basic understanding of AI/ML concepts and lifecycle (usecase framing, data pipelines, evaluation metrics, model limitations) is expected. - **Good To have:** - Experience with agentic AI platforms (e.g., Copilot Studio, M365 Copilot, Dataiku, LibreChat) and Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate) - Technical foundations (good to have): basic SQL, understanding of APIs/integrations, data structures and data quality concepts; - Certifications (good to have): PMP, PRINCE2, CSM, CBAP, PMIPBA **Things youll enjoy** - Collaborate with transverse teams and supportive colleagues across a global enterprise - Contribute to innovative AI programmes and work with cutting-edge platforms to deliver solutions for business needs across Alstom - Utilise a dynamic, learning-oriented environment that fosters adaptability and technical curiosity - Shape and influence digital delivery, stakeholder engagement and governance, with clear progression paths in Project Management, Business Analysis, Digital Transformation and Data AI careers You don't need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you'll be proud. If you're up for the challenge, we'd love to hear from you! **Job Type:** Experienced