Senior Technical Business Analyst

Company Overview

Founded in 2015 and fully operational since 2018, Blackstraw Technologies Pvt Ltd specializes in providing software products and services in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning across various sectors. With a team of 250+ professionals and combined experience surpassing 1000 years, the company serves clients worldwide including North America, Europe, and Asia. Blackstraw focuses on simplifying AI adoption through its platforms that facilitate rapid data labeling, AI model training, and deployment on cloud or on-premises. Their solutions include computer vision, natural language processing, and data annotation tools tailored for deep learning models.

Role Overview

The Senior Technical Business Analyst position is intended to act as an integral connection between business stakeholders and AI/ML technology teams, ensuring effective transformation of business challenges into clear technical directives. The role demands collaboration across product management, data science, and engineering teams to deliver AI-enabled products successfully.

Key Responsibilities

• Engage with business leaders to comprehend organizational objectives, challenges, and measure success.
• Convert business requirements into detailed functional, technical, and data-oriented documents.
• Develop Business Requirement Documents (BRDs), Functional Requirement Documents (FRDs), user stories, acceptance criteria, and process workflows.
• Spot AI/ML projects that align with business objectives and potential benefits.
• Partner with Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers to articulate problem definitions, inputs, expected outputs, and appropriate evaluation criteria.
• Gain insight into the AI model lifecycle including data collection, training, validation, deployment, and ongoing monitoring.
• Assist in specifying features, labels, datasets, and standards for data quality.
• Help track model performance and manage feedback mechanisms.
• Use tools like SQL, Excel, and BI platforms to analyze data and extract meaningful insights.
• Define key performance indicators (KPIs) and success measures relevant to AI initiatives.
• Contribute to preparing dashboards and reports for various stakeholders.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Proven expertise as a Business Analyst or Technical Business Analyst, preferably in data-driven or AI-focused environments.
• Comprehensive understanding of AI and Machine Learning concepts, including supervised and unsupervised learning, basics of natural language processing and computer vision, and model evaluation metrics.
• Experience documenting complex requirements and excellent ability to communicate with diverse stakeholders.
• Competency with data analysis tools such as SQL and business intelligence software.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Technology (B.Tech/B.E.) in any discipline.