OSec

Business Analyst

OSec

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

Cyber SecurityFirewallsTFS

About the role

  • The Business Systems Analyst will work as part of a high-performing development team to create requirements and assist with application designs, review test plans and test/use cases, and serve as a proxy Product Owner when needed.
  • The candidate will support an Agile transformation on client-site by infusing behavior-driven design best practices, as well as promoting automated testing techniques and other Agile methodologies.
  • The candidate will interact with other teams (e.g. virtual, database, server), users, and to ensure the applications provide tangible value to our client and users.
  • The candidate may provide testing support for disaster recovery scenarios and migration, optimization, and maintenance efforts using Agile standards and best practices.
  • Daily Responsibilities: Candidate will serve as a Business Systems Analyst with responsibilities that include:
  • Build relationships and establish trust with Product Owners, client leadership, and all relevant stakeholders
  • Help identify all relevant stakeholders
  • Engage with Product Owners and client leadership to perform epic/feature prioritization
  • Work with relevant stakeholders to gather business requirements for new systems or improvement to current systems
  • Attend, participate and/or lead agile ceremonies
  • Plan and lead review sessions for requirements elicitation, analysis, verification, specification, validation, and prioritization.
  • Sessions may include management of the needs of the stakeholders
  • Analyze the requirements and business processes using Agile methods to translate them into user stories
  • Collaborate with developers, database administrators, and other personnel to help them translate desired business value into technical implementation approaches
  • Work throughout the full development process to ensure systems are planned, developed, tested, and maintained to provide maximum value to stakeholders
  • Develop requirements that support a robust user experience
  • Provide development process improvement recommendations using Agile techniques
  • Assist in GUI mockup and prototype development
  • Review test plans to ensure requirements are fully tested
  • Develop requirement analysis standards and processes
  • Interpret operational user requirements for inclusion in test and analysis
  • Conduct research and prepare presentation material for planning purposes

Requirements

  • Exposure to cybersecurity product development or IT consulting.
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or similar. (Preferred)
  • Ideal candidate has 3-5 years of experience with:
  • Working in an Agile environment—participating in Scrum stand-ups, sprint planning sessions, and team retrospectives
  • Acting as an Agile advocate and change agent (transforming non-Agile teams to Agile or implementing Agile practices in non-conventional ways) is a plus
  • Serving as Proxy Product Owner and/or Scrum Master
  • Analyzing requirements and business processes
  • Translating business value to technical requirements
  • Facilitating groups and identifying/interacting with stakeholders to gather relevant information
  • Utilizing User experience design principles (some preferred)
  • Reviewing process and engaging in continuous process improvement
  • Engaging in knowledge management/sharing and knowledge mapping
  • Creating information visualizations such as storyboards, use cases, context diagrams, sequence diagrams, wireframes, data dictionaries, stakeholder matrixes, and data flow diagrams
  • Reviewing/writing documentation and able to provide comments and recommendations for acceptance, correction, or improvements
  • Analyzing and summarizing complex information into simple elements
  • Familiarity with Agile methodologies and modern software development practices
  • Awareness of DevSecOps technologies and modern software development practices
  • Basic understanding of IT security concepts and technologies (e.g., firewalls, vulnerabilities, authentication methods).
  • Based in the NY/NJ area or within the Eastern time zone for effective collaboration.
  • Strong written and oral communication skills with an ability to interact with multidisciplinary project team members
  • Highly organized, motivated, and self-directed (takes initiative)
  • Ability to formulate clear, concise questions to minimize time spent with SMEs while gathering details
  • Capability to manage time effectively and me deadlines
  • Excellent technical writing skills
  • Expertise in Visio, PowerPoint, and MS Team Foundation Server (or equivalent source source code and project management software)
  • Proficiency in creating clear, simple, unambiguous and testable acceptance criteria
  • Ability to contribute to GUI design based on user requirements
  • Understanding of business process modeling/re-engineering
  • Knowledge of prototype development
  • Uncompromising focus on quality, while strongly considering other project success factors
  • Capability to translate complex subject matter into simple graphic representations that explain concepts