Business Analyst
TALENT Software Services, Atlanta, GA, United States
Location
Atlanta, GA
Job Description
Client (F&B) Business Analyst – Mid to Senior role combining business analysis and solution architecture. The role focuses on building an agentic AI chatbot solution on Microsoft Azure to enable conversational access to R&D and formulation data stored in existing relational databases. The candidate will work closely with food & beverage consumer packaged goods R&D, formulation, and product development teams, emphasizing requirements discovery, scope expansion, and identifying new AI‑enabled opportunities beyond initial use cases. The analyst will serve as a bridge between scientific users, business stakeholders, and technical delivery teams.
Key Responsibilities
Proactively lead client communications, interviews, and workshops.
Engage R&D, formulation, and innovation stakeholders to understand:
Formulation development and optimization workflows.
Pain points in accessing and interpreting data.
Elicit, analyze, and document:
Functional and non‑functional requirements.
User stories, use cases, and acceptance criteria.
Create, manage, and groom backlog.
Translate business and scientific needs into:
Clear solution designs and architectural inputs.
Backlog items that are delivery‑ready.
Lead architecture and design of:
UIs, UX workflows, paper prototyping, etc.
Azure‑based agentic AI systems.
Conversational/chatbot interfaces.
Data retrieval from relational data sources.
Collaborate with engineering teams on:
AI agent orchestration and tool usage.
Data integration and access patterns.
Security, scalability, and performance considerations.
Proactively identify:
New AI use cases within R&D and formulation.
Opportunities to broaden solution scope and value.
Support roadmap definition from initial data retrieval chatbot to more advanced reasoning, insight generation, and decision support.
Mandatory Skills
Business Analysis & Requirements Engineering – 5
Client Domain Knowledge (Food & Beverage R&D) – 4
Client R&D Workflow Understanding – 3
Agentic AI Azure Solution Architecture (Azure OpenAI / Foundry / AI Search) – 4
Communication & Stakeholder Management – 5
Relational Databases & Data Modeling Concepts – 2/3
Optional Skills
Agentic AI / Multi‑Agent Systems Architectures – 3
Conversational AI / NLP Systems – 3
AI Governance / Responsible AI Concepts – 2
Consulting or Discovery‑Phase Project Experience – 4
Regulated or Scientific IT Environments – 3
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Atlanta, GA
Job Description
Client (F&B) Business Analyst – Mid to Senior role combining business analysis and solution architecture. The role focuses on building an agentic AI chatbot solution on Microsoft Azure to enable conversational access to R&D and formulation data stored in existing relational databases. The candidate will work closely with food & beverage consumer packaged goods R&D, formulation, and product development teams, emphasizing requirements discovery, scope expansion, and identifying new AI‑enabled opportunities beyond initial use cases. The analyst will serve as a bridge between scientific users, business stakeholders, and technical delivery teams.
Key Responsibilities
Proactively lead client communications, interviews, and workshops.
Engage R&D, formulation, and innovation stakeholders to understand:
Formulation development and optimization workflows.
Pain points in accessing and interpreting data.
Elicit, analyze, and document:
Functional and non‑functional requirements.
User stories, use cases, and acceptance criteria.
Create, manage, and groom backlog.
Translate business and scientific needs into:
Clear solution designs and architectural inputs.
Backlog items that are delivery‑ready.
Lead architecture and design of:
UIs, UX workflows, paper prototyping, etc.
Azure‑based agentic AI systems.
Conversational/chatbot interfaces.
Data retrieval from relational data sources.
Collaborate with engineering teams on:
AI agent orchestration and tool usage.
Data integration and access patterns.
Security, scalability, and performance considerations.
Proactively identify:
New AI use cases within R&D and formulation.
Opportunities to broaden solution scope and value.
Support roadmap definition from initial data retrieval chatbot to more advanced reasoning, insight generation, and decision support.
Mandatory Skills
Business Analysis & Requirements Engineering – 5
Client Domain Knowledge (Food & Beverage R&D) – 4
Client R&D Workflow Understanding – 3
Agentic AI Azure Solution Architecture (Azure OpenAI / Foundry / AI Search) – 4
Communication & Stakeholder Management – 5
Relational Databases & Data Modeling Concepts – 2/3
Optional Skills
Agentic AI / Multi‑Agent Systems Architectures – 3
Conversational AI / NLP Systems – 3
AI Governance / Responsible AI Concepts – 2
Consulting or Discovery‑Phase Project Experience – 4
Regulated or Scientific IT Environments – 3
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