About Client:The client is a global consulting, technology, and digital firm specializing in the financial services industry. Established in 2001, the company provides innovative solutions to help clients navigate digital transformation, enhance operational efficiency, and achieve strategic objectives. With a focus on banking, capital markets, and insurance, it leverages cutting-edge technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, and data science to deliver customized IT solutions and business consulting services.
The company's commitment to innovation, combined with its industry expertise, positions it as a leader in driving technological advancements and helping financial institutions stay competitive in a rapidly evolving market.
Rate Range: $60-$68/Hr
Job Description:- Banking & Finance Domain is Mandatory
- We re looking for a hands-on Senior Business Analyst for a high-visibility Data and GenAI/Agentic AI program.
- The role connects Business, Data, AI, and Technology. You ll take a complex business problem and turn it into processes, requirements, data needs, AI context, and implementation-ready specifications.
- This position suits a self-starter with strong analytical, communication, facilitation, and negotiation skills who can work effectively with senior business stakeholders and delivery teams.
Requirements: - Proficiency translating business problems into processes, requirements, data, AI context, and specifications
- Strong data skills to define and validate the data that AI agents and analytics depend on
- Working knowledge of GenAI, LLMs, Agentic AI, context engineering, and prompt engineering
- A specification-driven mindset: precise, structured, testable requirements for traditional and AI-assisted development
Responsibilities include: - Leading requirements discovery, elicitation, and documentation, translating business objectives into Epics, Stories, specifications, and acceptance criteria
- Defining current-state and target-state processes and identifying opportunities for simplification, automation, and AI enablement
- Maintaining end-to-end traceability, from business objective through requirement, specification, and implementation to validation
- Leading discovery workshops, refinement sessions, and solution-design discussions; resolving ambiguity and negotiating priorities across Business and Technology
- Defining data requirements, including:
- source systems and critical data elements (CDEs)
- business definitions and mappings
- transformation rules and refresh needs
- ownership and data quality expectations
- Analyzing structured and unstructured data with SMEs
- Partnering with Data Engineering to expose data sources through Starburst (or similar data virtualization tools)
- Assessing data quality and working with Data Owners and Stewards to maintain metadata, lineage, classifications, and governance in Collibra (or similar)
- Establishing business glossaries, taxonomies, ontologies, and semantic relationships to make enterprise data AI-ready
- Defining AI agent requirements:
- objectives, roles, and inputs/outputs
- workflows and decision boundaries
- data and knowledge needs
- human-in-the-loop interactions
- business rules, exceptions and escalation paths, and guardrails
- evaluation criteria
- Defining where AI should inform, recommend, augment, or automate business activities
- Writing testable AI acceptance criteria covering grounding, relevance, completeness, consistency, and appropriate behavior
- Designing and refining prompts, and defining the business context agents need: policies, terminology, rules, metadata, and knowledge sources
- Deciding with AI Engineering what is provided as instructions versus retrieved dynamically from enterprise knowledge and data
- Writing implementation-ready specifications that cover:
- behavior, business rules, and decision logic
- data, inputs/outputs, and interfaces
- exceptions and dependencies
- acceptance criteria and non-functional requirements
- Partnering with Engineering throughout development to clarify specifications and reduce rework
Required: - Significant experience as a Senior BA, BSA, Product Analyst, or equivalent on complex technology initiatives
- Strong expertise in requirements engineering, process analysis, and requirements decomposition
- Exceptional communication, facilitation, negotiation, stakeholder management, and influencing skills
- Experience defining data requirements and analyzing structured and unstructured data
- Understanding of data quality, metadata, lineage, business definitions, semantic relationships, and data governance
- Agile delivery experience: Epics, Stories, acceptance criteria, refinement, Jira
- Working knowledge of GenAI, LLMs, Agentic AI, context engineering, and prompt engineering
- Ability to translate AI use cases into requirements, agent behaviors, guardrails, data and context needs, and acceptance criteria
- Understanding of specification-driven development
Preferred / huge plus: - Starburst or similar data virtualization or query platforms
- Collibra or similar governance, catalog, metadata, or data quality platforms
- Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, Azure AI, or comparable enterprise GenAI platforms
- RAG, semantic and vector search, enterprise knowledge retrieval, AI agents, and orchestration
- Experience in a highly regulated environment (traceability, controls, explainability, human oversight)
- Audit, Risk, Compliance, or continuous risk monitoring experience
What makes this role different: - This is not a traditional BA role with AI added on. The candidate must connect Business Problem Process Requirements Data Metadata & Semantics AI Context Specification Solution .
About ApTask:
ApTask is a leading global provider of workforce solutions and talent acquisition services, dedicated to shaping the future of work. As an African American-owned and Veteran-owned company, ApTask offers a comprehensive suite of services, including staffing and recruitment solutions, managed services, IT consulting, and project management. With a focus on excellence, collaboration, and innovation, ApTask provides unparalleled opportunities for professional growth and development. As a member of the ApTask team, you will have the chance to connect businesses with top-tier professionals, optimize workforce performance, and drive success across diverse industries. Join us at ApTask and be part of our mission to empower organizations to thrive while fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment.
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About ApTask:
ApTask is a leading global provider of workforce solutions and talent acquisition services, dedicated to shaping the future of work. As an African American-owned and Veteran-owned company, ApTask offers a comprehensive suite of services, including staffing and recruitment solutions, managed services, IT consulting, and project management. With a focus on excellence, collaboration, and innovation, ApTask provides unparalleled opportunities for professional growth and development. As a member of the ApTask team, you will have the chance to connect businesses with top-tier professionals, optimize workforce performance, and drive success across diverse industries. Join us at ApTask and be part of our mission to empower organizations to thrive while fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment.
Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government issued ID during each interview.
Candidate Data Collection Disclaimer:
At ApTask, we prioritize safeguarding your privacy. As part of our recruitment process, certain Personally Identifiable Information (PII) may be requested by our clients for verification and application purposes. Rest assured, we strictly adhere to confidentiality standards and comply with all relevant data protection laws. Please note that we only collect the necessary information as specified by each client and do not request sensitive details during the initial stages of recruitment.
If you have any concerns or queries about your personal information, please feel free to contact our compliance team at
businessexcellence@aptask.com
ompliance@aptask.com
.
Applicant Consent:
By submitting your application, you agree to ApTask's (www.aptask.com)
Terms of Use and
Privacy Policy, and provide your consent to receive SMS and voice call communications regarding employment opportunities that match your resume and qualifications. You understand that your personal information will be used solely for recruitment purposes and that you can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at 732-355-8000 or help@aptask.com. Message frequency may vary. Msg & data rates may apply.