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- Job Title
- Senior Business Analyst
- Job Description
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**Job Title:** Senior Business Analyst
**Role Summary:**
Seasoned Business Analyst with 10+ years of experience driving strategic, AI‑adjacent initiatives in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) environments. Responsible for eliciting, analyzing, and documenting business requirements, developing process models, and translating operational needs into automation and data‑driven solutions to improve financial performance and project delivery.
**Expectations:**
- Deliver accurate, executive‑ready business requirements and workflow artefacts within tight timelines.
- Enable data‑based decision‑making through robust business cases tied to margin, utilization, WIP, and cycle‑time improvements.
- Foster alignment among Project Managers, Discipline Leads, Principals, and senior leadership in ambiguous, early‑stage projects.
**Key Responsibilities:**
- Elicit, analyze, and document business requirements for AEC project delivery.
- Create current‑state and future‑state workflow diagrams, process maps, and gap analyses.
- Produce Business Requirement Documents (BRDs), use cases, success metrics, and non‑functional requirements specific to BIM, CAD, Revit, and related systems.
- Develop business cases linking operational changes to financial metrics (margin, utilization, WIP, write‑offs).
- Translate AEC operational challenges into requirements for AI/automation, data platforms, and document‑intelligence solutions.
- Prepare high‑quality, executive‑ready deliverables for prioritization and downstream execution.
- Facilitate workshops and structured discussions to achieve clarity, consensus, and decision‑making.
- Collaborate closely with Project Managers, Discipline Leads, Principals, and operational leadership.
**Required Skills:**
- Deep knowledge of AEC processes, BIM, CAD, Revit, construction drawings, specifications, and IFCs.
- Strong analytical and documentation skills; expert in BRDs, use cases, and process modeling.
- Proven ability to develop financial business cases and link requirements to performance metrics.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and facilitation abilities across senior technical and business audiences.
- Ability to operate in ambiguous, early‑stage initiatives and impose structure quickly.
- Proficiency with workflow mapping tools and requirement‑management software.
**Required Education & Certifications:**
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or related field.
- Relevant certifications (e.g., CBAP, PMI‑PBA, Certified Scrum Product Owner) preferred but not mandatory.