Principal Business Analyst - AI & Innovation

Principal Business Analyst – AI & Innovation

London, United Kingdom

Key Responsibilities

• Keep the team focussed on the right priorities and ensure they are in a position to work efficiently in the face of uncertainty.
• Facilitate ceremonies and ensure the team are following Agile ways of working and best practice.
• Monitor the team against commitments and nurture a continuous improvement mindset.
• Ensure the technology team’s backlog is well maintained, appropriately detailed and clearly articulates business value.
• Assist in tracking and reporting the progress of the team’s delivery.
• Advance the use of metrics and other objective measures across the team’s activities.
• Apply a wide variety of business analysis techniques to capture business needs, discover requirements and generate solutions.
• Own the discovery phase of new initiatives that crosscut the needs of multiple teams.
• Create alignment and ownership between multiple stakeholder groups. Ensure scope is well managed and considers value, feasibility, and implementation constraints.
• Demonstrate expertise in the latest advancements in Generative AI technologies and provide relevant insights or recommendations for their use in addressing business challenges.
• Solve problems by working independently and in a team environment.

What you’ll be like

• An excellent communicator and problem solver with an aptitude for critical thinking.
• A capable servant-leader, comfortable directing and supporting high performing technical teams.
• Solid understanding and practical experience with Agile principles and practices.
• Resourceful with a skill for removing impediments and navigating problems faced by the wider team.
• Proactive and dependency aware.
• Someone who acts to break down information and knowledge silos.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into understandable terms for non-technical stakeholders.
• Adaptable and flexible. You will consider the right tool for the situation at hand instead of relying on the same ‘go-to’ tools / approaches.
• Ability to swiftly acquire and assimilate new business domain expertise.
• Previous experience of specifying and successfully delivering AI and/or Data Science initiatives is highly desirable.
• Skilled in utilising data and evidence to create data insights dashboards with tools such as PowerBI.

Inclusivity & Equal Opportunity

Our purpose is to provide excellent investment performance to clients through active management. Diversity of thought facilitated by an inclusive culture will allow us to make better decisions and better achieve our purpose. This is why inclusion and diversity are a strategic priority for us and why we are an equal opportunities employer: you are welcome here regardless of your age, disability, gender identity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, socio-economic background or any other protected characteristics.