IT Business Analyst - AI Projects

The opportunity:

Hitachi Energy is seeking a highly motivated and skilled Business Analyst to support and drive the successful delivery of AI initiatives across the organization. This role will focus on identifying business opportunities, gathering and analyzing requirements, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement AI solutions using a variety of technologies and platforms. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of Business Requirements gathering concepts, excellent analytical skills, and experience working in complex industrial or energy environments.

How you'll make an impact:

• Collaborate with business units to identify and prioritize AI use cases aligned with strategic goals.
• Conduct stakeholder interviews, workshops, and process analysis to gather detailed business requirements.
• Translate business needs into functional and technical specifications for AI solutions.
• Perform cost-benefit and impact analysis for proposed AI initiatives. Define and track KPIs to measure the success of AI implementations.
• Work closely with data scientists, AI engineers, and IT teams to ensure business requirements are accurately implemented.
• Support the development and deployment of AI Solutions using platforms such as Microsoft Azure AI. Assist in data preparation, validation, and governance activities & Ensure ethical AI practices and compliance with data privacy regulations.
• Prepare and present business cases, project updates, and post-implementation reviews liaising with the different vendor teams. Facilitate change management and user adoption of AI solutions.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation including business requirements, process flows, user stories, change requests etc. Identify opportunities for process automation and optimization using AI technologies.
• Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
• Living Hitachi Energy's core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• Minimum 8 years of overall experience.
• 4+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, preferably in the energy or industrial sector.
• 2+ years of experience working on AI/ML projects.
• Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts, data lifecycle, and cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with tools such as Power BI, Azure DevOps, JIRA, Confluence.
• Experience with AI applications and solutions (e.g., Gen AI based Chatbots, RAG architecture etc.).
• Certifications in Business Analysis (CBAP, PMI-PBA) or AI platforms (Azure AI Engineer, AWS Machine Learning).
• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.