
Senior Technical Support Specialist
About the role
Job Summary
The AI Business Analyst plays a critical role in bridging business needs and AI-enabled solutions, ensuring that use cases are well-defined, feasible, and aligned to real business value. This role combines strong analytical capability with an understanding of AI/ML to shape, validate, and deliver impactful solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
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Translate business needs into clear, structured requirements for AI and analytics solutions (e.g., decision support, predictive models, recommendations, and GenAI copilots).
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Lead core business analysis activities, including requirements definition, gap analysis, process mapping, and supporting test design and execution.
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Define both functional and non-functional requirements for AI capabilities, including:
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Performance, accuracy, and reliability expectations
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Explainability and transparency requirements
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Auditability, logging, and traceability standards
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Assess feasibility, risks, and data readiness for AI/ML/GenAI use cases.
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Collaborate with data owners, stewards, and architects to identify required data sources, understand data lineage, and evaluate data constraints.
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Work closely with data scientists, engineers, and AI teams to define realistic test scenarios and acceptance criteria, including edge cases and thresholds for “good enough” performance.
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Shape and support experiments and pilots (e.g., MVPs, A/B testing) to validate AI use cases in a controlled and measurable way.
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Analyse the impact of AI solutions on business processes and roles, including identifying opportunities for automation vs. augmentation.
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Ensure AI use cases align with data privacy, security, and regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR and sector-specific standards).
Skill Requirements
Required Skills & Experience
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Proven experience in identifying, analysing, prioritising, and validating business and user requirements for AI or data-driven solutions.
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Experience conducting options analysis, feasibility assessments, impact analysis, and value estimation to support business case development.
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Strong communication skills, with the ability to produce clear, engaging, and insightful reports and presentations.
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Ability to translate complex business problems into actionable insights for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with experience working across business and technology teams.
Other Requirements
Desirable
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Experience within the Energy & Utilities sector.
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Familiarity with AI/ML concepts and lifecycle (e.g., model development, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring).
Required skills
Business analysis
Requirements gathering
Process mapping
Gap analysis
Test planning
AI/ML literacy
Data readiness assessment
Stakeholder management
About HCL Technologies
Coventry District (b)
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