Lead Business Analyst – AI Transformation

Overview

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About Us:

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential of leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there.

Who We Are

We believe everyone deserves to live their best life. More than a century ago, we were among the first financial services companies in America to serve everyday people from all walks of life.

Today, we’re part of an international holding company, with millions of customers and thousands of employees worldwide. Our insurance, retirement, and investment solutions help people make the most of what’s important to them.

We’re empowered by a vast agent network covering North America, with diversity to match. Together with our nonprofit research institute and foundation, we tune in, step up, and are a force for good — for our customers and the communities where we live, work, and play. United in our purpose, we help people create the financial freedom to live life on their terms.

What We Do

Transamerica is organized into three distinct businesses. These include
1) World Financial Group, including Transamerica Financial Advisors,
2) Protection Solutions and Savings & Investments, comprised of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits, retirement plans, and Transamerica Investment Solutions, and
3) Financial Assets, which includes legacy blocks of long term care, universal life, and variable and fixed annuities. These are supported by Transamerica Corporate, which includes Finance, People and Places, General Counsel, Risk, Internal Audit, Strategy and Development, and Corporate Affairs, which covers Communications, Brand, and Government and Policy Affairs.

Transamerica employs nearly 7,000 people. It’s part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group serving approximately 23.9 million customers worldwide. For more information, visit

The Lead Business Analyst – AI Transformation plays a critical role in accelerating digital delivery by bridging business strategy, product vision, and engineering execution in an AI-enabled development model. This role partners closely with Product Managers and delivery teams to gather, refine, and translate business and technical requirements into AI-ready specifications and prompts that generate high quality user stories and development artifacts.

This role leverages AI tooling to dramatically shorten traditional agile cycles—enabling rapid, incremental delivery measured in days rather than weeks—while maintaining strong agile fundamentals. The Lead Business Analyst is expected to challenge legacy ways of working, adapt quickly in a fast-moving transformation environment, and collaborate daily with cross-functional teams.

• Reviews and edits requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations related to proposed solution
• Develops functional specifications and system design specifications for client engagements
• Ensures issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner
• Works with client personnel to identify required changes
• Defines and refines test conditions
• Communicates needed changes to development team. Prioritize multiple tasks effectively; may be responsible for assigning and reviewing project tasks completed by others
• May lead team and client meetings
• Communicates effectively with clients to identify needs and evaluates alternative business solutions
• Solves complex problems in creative ways; significant initiative and independent judgment required; makes varied decisions; operates with substantial latitude for un-reviewed action or decision; typically plans, conducts and supervises assignments, reviews progress and…