Senior Business Analyst with Heavy Infrastructure, Cloud and Cyber Security

A Top Financial firm in RTP is looking for an Infrastructure BA with Cloud or Cyber Security experience.

This is a long term contract with possible conversion to perm and a role with a good work / life balance.

A Business Analyst to work on IT Infrastructure projects. This role would be a member of a centrally managed BA pool.

Key Responsibilities

Scope (strategy), deliver (implementation), and improve (maintenance) a mixture of large and medium scale global projects influencing the IT 3-year vision. Balance the use of skills in strategic vision and grounding them in practicality and Operational Efficiency to help improve services and capabilities already in production/BAU.

• Understanding the business need, creating a clear problem statement, and crafting a vision for change
• Driving the identification of opportunities and the development & validation of project / program Business Cases with its expected benefits. Supporting/seeking approval for funding to execute against the defined business case
• Identifying, engaging, and managing stakeholders
• Engineering and managing requirements across the portfolio; identifying dependencies and risks and driving integration of parallel activities across the program
• Driving the requirements prioritization process, developing requirements specifications, and securing stakeholder agreement
• Partnering with solution architecture, product management, and engineering in the development of solutions that meet the requirements; documenting current & to be processes, technologies, workflows and data flows. Preparing gap analysis, use cases and implementation plans. Representing customer interests in the solutions process
• Performing solution evaluations and selection and elicit customer agreement on the solutions
• Articulate and address the implications of the introduction of a new solution on the current and future technology, process, and organizational landscape
• Partnering closely with stakeholders, suppliers (internal and external as required), project managers, and customers to ensure the testing and successful delivery of solutions is in line with the agreed specifications
• Experienced IT Infrastructure required – Cloud technology or Cyber Security preferred. A BA from the application development world is acceptable as long as they have a sound grasp of IT infrastructure.
• The candidate must have strong knowledge of, not necessarily experience with IT Infrastructure including servers, storage, networks, and databases and how IT applications consume them
• Practical knowledge in applying information security standards (e.g. ISO 27001) and/or cyber security best practices (e.g. NIST Cybersecurity Framework)
• Experience working in a global environment across different cultures
• Experience of global project delivery with a proven history of providing analysis and solutions that supports successful project delivery in a matrix environment
• Specific experience delivering the following project types a plus: part of a global project team to deliver operational capabilities to rapidly and effectively identify, detect and respond to cyber security events, vulnerabilities, and threats targeting our firm
• Proven experience in analyzing application infrastructure design, classification of apps in areas such as regulatory and non-functional (e.g. suitability analysis), and strong leadership in managing application stakeholders
• Senior stakeholder management; influencing and managing expectations, and selling the program
• Requirements and issues management leveraging tools such as JIRA and Odysseus
• Work intelligently with data and business analysis, supporting development of business cases, metrics and visualizations to support proposals
• Ability to analyze financial, technical and service level data and compile for presentation to senior staff
• Organization analysis mapping process/activity flows, roles and responsibilities, etc.
• Helping build the BA team brand and supporting best practices and standardization is vital
• Ability to work through ambiguity and complexity to create propositions to support solutions
• Ability to use excellent written and verbal communication skills and produced material to sell a concept or support a solution
• Strong analytical, planning, problem solving, and presentation skills
• High professional standards, collaborative, and client focused
• Proficiency in MS Office applications such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Visio

Desired Skills and Qualifications

• Experience in Agile project delivery methodology
• Proficiency in data visualization tools such as iAnalyze, Tableau, or similar tools is desired
• Experience working with CMDB such as HPAM or DataOne; integration into the data lake
• Application onboarding/migrations to new infrastructure platforms
• Infrastructure tools rationalization, decom, and replacement (RFPs/RFIs)
• IT Service design and measurement (moving from 'product' to 'service-based’ operations)
• Strong process design and process engineering skills
• Comfortable working with people up to MD level
• Ability to work in a fast paced, demanding environment turning the 'unknowns' into 'knowns'

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.