Role Overview:This role focuses on identifying, assessing, and documenting AI and automation opportunities within the business. The AI Engineer will establish intake processes, conduct discovery sessions, and evaluate use cases for technical feasibility, business value, and strategic alignment, particularly leveraging Microsoft Foundry capabilities. The position involves defining success criteria, estimating benefits, and facilitating collaboration between business stakeholders and technical teams to ensure smooth solution design and implementation.
Key Responsibilities:- Establish a structured intake process for capturing AI and automation opportunities from business stakeholders.
- Conduct discovery sessions, stakeholder interviews, and workshops to understand current-state processes and pain points.
- Document business objectives, process flows, decision points, inputs, outputs, exceptions, and operational requirements.
- Assess submitted use cases for business value, technical feasibility, complexity, implementation effort, and delivery risk.
- Evaluate whether opportunities are best suited for AI, workflow automation, RPA, process improvement, or existing platform capabilities.
- Identify required systems, applications, data sources, integrations, and access dependencies for each use case.
- Review data availability, data quality, privacy, security, and governance considerations before solution design begins.
- Define success criteria, measurable KPIs, expected business outcomes, and value realization measures.
- Estimate potential benefits such as productivity gains, cost reduction, capacity creation, process efficiency, and user experience improvement.
- Develop preliminary ROI, benefit assumptions, and prioritization inputs to support leadership and governance decisions.
- Support prioritization of opportunities based on value, feasibility, risk, urgency, and strategic alignment.
- Facilitate alignment between business stakeholders, IT teams, solution architects, developers, and delivery teams.
- Support smooth handoff of approved use cases from discovery to solution design, development, and implementation planning.
- Maintain traceability from initial intake through governance review, delivery handoff, and value tracking.
- Prepare discovery artifacts, business requirements, intake documentation, and use case summaries for review and approval.
Required Skills:- Expertise in AI and Automation opportunity identification and assessment.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Foundry.
- Strong business analysis and requirements gathering skills.
- Experience with process documentation and optimization.
- Ability to evaluate technical feasibility, business value, and risk for use cases.
- Understanding of RPA, workflow automation, and process improvement methodologies.
- Knowledge of data governance, privacy, and security considerations.
- Experience defining KPIs, ROI, and benefit realization.
- Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional team facilitation skills.
Qualifications:- Experience: N/A
- Education/Certifications: N/A
