Business Analyst Microsoft AI & Power Platform

Job Description

Exakis Nelite, an entity of the Magellan Partners group, is the leading independent Microsoft pure-player partner in France, with the ambition to become the leading European and Francophone African partner through its strong presence in Morocco.

Born from the merger of two leading specialists in Microsoft solutions integration, we combine technical and functional expertise to concretely address tomorrow's challenges: acceleration of digital transformation, Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, IoT, Data, transformation towards Azure cloud, Cognitive Services…

By joining the Exakis Nelite community in one of our 12 agencies (680 employees), you will become part of a passionate team involved in the most innovative projects. You will join a structure built around values focused on its employees: collective intelligence, conviviality, and benevolence.

About the Role

Join the AI Business Solutions Service Line at the Lyon agency within a multidisciplinary team (Business Analysts, UX/UI Designers, Change Managers, Technical Experts, Developers), focused on digital projects related to creating Business value for our major clients, through Microsoft Artificial Intelligence solutions (Copilot) and process automation (Power Platform).

Your Missions:

• Analyze, challenge, and transform business needs into innovative, scalable, and adopted Microsoft digital solutions.
• Facilitate business workshops to understand challenges, pain points, and opportunities.
• Translate needs into concrete use cases around AI, automation, and Power Platform.
• Qualify value, estimate ROI, and prioritize use cases based on impact, feasibility, and effort.
• Create as-is / to-be process maps and identify optimization, automation, or innovation levers.
• Co-construct implementation roadmaps and make decisions based on MVP and continuous improvement logic.
• Participate in functional design (Copilot agents, workflows, apps, automations) and collaborate with technical teams.
• Write clear functional specifications and define business rules, user journeys, and acceptance criteria.
• Monitor implementation, ensure business alignment, and support change management with pedagogical guidance.
• Define and track KPIs, analyze actual usage, and propose continuous optimizations.
• Challenge business requests and propose innovative and differentiating uses of Microsoft technologies.
• Work in agile mode (Scrum, MVP, iterative) and contribute to the continuous improvement of practices.
• Maintain active vigilance on Copilot, Copilot Studio, Power Platform, and the Microsoft AI ecosystem, and share useful updates with teams and clients.

Qualifications

• Master's degree (Bac+4/5) in IT, UX, digital project management, or innovation.
• Strong experience (5-8 years) in Business Analysis focusing on Microsoft solutions (Power Platform, M365, AI, Copilot, automation, process digitalization).
• Proven mastery of functional workshops around Microsoft solutions (Power Apps, Automate, M365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, AI Builder, Dataverse, Azure AI, etc.), requirements gathering and formalization in Microsoft Cloud environments.
• Microsoft certifications (AB-900, AB-730, AB-731, PL-900, PL-100/PL-200, AI-900, etc.) or PSM/PSPO or ECBA/IIBA certifications are a plus.
• Aptitude for AI and automation, good understanding of capabilities and limitations, ability to prototype in low code/no code, to create simple or intermediate agents.
• Active listening, rigor, and autonomy, with a consulting and innovative mindset.
• Pedagogical skills and good communication.
• Fluent English is essential (international context).
• Knowledge of Klaxoon, Miro, Confluence, Figma, Jira, or other collaborative tools will be appreciated.

Additional Information

• The Perks:
• 🚀 Community: Be an integral part of a community of enthusiasts to continue learning daily from the best in the Microsoft universe.
• 💰 Profit Sharing, Incentive Bonuses, and Holiday Bonuses.
• 🏡 Flexible Remote Work: An agreement for 2 days of remote work per week.
• 🍽️ Edenred+ Restaurant Vouchers: €9.30 per working day.
• 💊 Family Health Insurance.
• 🚴🏼‍♀️ Sustainable Mobility Package: up to €400 per year.
• 🌐 Early access to new technologies #M'GPT #Copilot and the highest levels of Microsoft certifications!

Key skills/competency

• Business Analysis
• Microsoft Power Platform
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Copilot
• Process Automation
• Digital Transformation
• Agile Methodologies
• Functional Specifications
• Change Management
• Microsoft Ecosystem