Cyber Technical Analyst

Role Statement:

The Senior Technical Business Analyst will form part of a delivery squad and will work alongside the Business  to deliver agreed outputs relating to the Cyber Programme. They can work independently and have a good understanding of their peers’ work areas. They advance the Analysis community through the sharing of best practice and mentoring others.

Key Role Accountabilities:

General

• Carry out such tasks as directed to meet the needs of the Business on full end to end lifecycle of projects.

• Reviewing the latest technology trends and developments.
• Maintain awareness of the evolving cyber threat landscape and external drivers, assessing their impact and shaping the roadmap accordingly. This includes ensuring appropriate security, resilience and compliance considerations across people, processes and tooling.
• Driving continuous improvement behaviours within the organisation and challenge the ‘norm’. 

Engagement

• Working closely with product management/Customers/Business process owners/Business Process Leads within specialist teams on all aspects of delivery and continuous improvement, requiring strong relationship and communications skills.
• Build relationships across the Business within and external to the department.
• Responsible for communicating with stakeholders to understand their requirements.
• Coordinating developers to build and implement technology solutions.

Technical

• Strong understanding of cyber security principles, including identity and access management, cloud security, data protection, secure architecture, vulnerability management, threat landscapes and regulatory requirements.
• Experience of translating technical security controls into business requirements and ensuring security-by-design outcomes.
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• Extensive experience of working with technical teams
• Responsible for the analyses, documentation, design and implementation of efficient and effective technical solutions which are aligned to the Programme objectives, the technical vision and landscape.
•  Experience of integrating multiple systems to meet programme and business requirements.
• Initiate research into relevant technologies and tools to increase our effectiveness and deliverables

Documentation

• Responsible for documenting and understanding the ‘AS-IS’/’TO-BE’ system and technology requirements impacts with close engagement with Functional Consultants.
• Significant experience in working with technology teams
• Defining and developing functional specifications via technical analysis.
• Creating documentation on non-functional requirements and perform the required due diligence to analyse and justify requirements before achieving approval and business sign-off.

Analysis

• Significant experience in building the required technical backlogs. 
• Experience of analysing and modelling security related business processes, controls and data flows
• Confident in translating cyber risks, threats and vulnerabilities into business requirements and user stories
• Experience of conducting impact, gap and risk analysis across people, processes and tooling
• Facilitate workshops with business stakeholders, architects, engineers, risk, legal and audit teams
• Define acceptance criteria and control requirements that can be evidenced and tested
• Designing efficient IT systems to meet business and technology needs.
• Working with end users to gather feedback about system performance.

• Defining best practice, deliver on the end to end project activities from requirements, through to Go-Live support and close, including the delivery of business readiness activities and change

Team

• Responsible for initiating feedback and honest conversation.
• Contribute to embedding new agile practices within the teams
• Contribute to the team estimation activities

Knowledge and Skills

• Strong relationship, communication and negotiating skills.
• Teamwork and ability to prioritise and deliver in a flexible and timely manner.
• Relevant business process experience and analytical/analysis skills.
• Experience of Cyber Security frameworks and controls
• Experience of Agile Programme Delivery.
• Knowledge of Data importance and reporting.
• Experience of working with cloud-based technologies.
• Excellent analytical skills, attention to detail, and time management skills.
• Excellent writing and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to deliver high quality presentations and documents.
• Think critically and focus on outcomes.
• Familiar with industry standard tooling such as JIRA,PowerBI and LeanIX
• Advanced Microsoft Office capabilities, particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Word.

Core Behaviours

• Accountable in performing duties and helping others achieve their tasks
• Motivated and able to influence work in cross functional teams. 
• Ability to work independently and be able to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Able to influence immediate team members and other across the department
• Eye for detail and methodical in approach to work 
• Creates informal networks and key contacts within the business 
• Being proactive and a self-starter is important (ability to “hit the ground running”).
• Positivity and enthusiasm are very important for the role. 
• Good stakeholder management and interpersonal skills 

Adept Emotional intelligence