Information Cloud Data Security Risk Analyst

Request Technology - Dallas, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Dallas, TX

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Information Cloud Data Security Risk Analyst position at a prestigious enterprise company involves a multifaceted role focused on data security and risk management within cloud environments. The analyst will be responsible for gathering and interpreting data, documenting business requirements, and defining processes to standardize data and operations. This role requires a keen ability to resolve discrepancies in transactions, data, and processes, while also identifying opportunities for automation and streamlining operations. The analyst will create business requirements documents and develop functional specifications that guide the technical solutions implemented by developers. In this role, the analyst will leverage hands-on experience with various data protection technologies, including encryption, cloud security, insider threat management, data loss prevention, and database activity monitoring. A strong understanding of technology environments, such as telecommunications, networks, security, and server administration, is essential. The analyst will work closely with management and other teams to achieve business goals, establish new data gathering techniques, and formulate procedural manuals for various departments. The position also involves tracking and reconciling data, supporting specific IT processes like vendor and asset management, and defining key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor business value. The analyst will collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to prioritize activities based on business value and urgency, develop consultative partnerships, and support communications and meetings to mitigate risks and resolve conflicts. Additionally, the analyst will lead the education and training of end users to enhance proficiency and adoption of implemented solutions, while serving as a liaison across teams to communicate systems and procedural changes effectively.

Responsibilities

• Gather and analyze data
• Interpret gathered data
• Experience with CASB type solutions
• Submit reports to the relevant department heads and management
• Find patterns and trends in the analyzed data
• Help management and other teams achieve business goals and needs
• Establish new data gathering and analysis techniques within the organization
• Formulate procedural manuals for all departments
• Track and reconcile data
• Support the execution of specific IT processes in response to business needs and requests
• Define, track and monitor KPIs
• Gather requirements
• Document requirements as governed by the SGWS PMO
• Create business requirements document based on requirements gathering
• Create functional spec based on platform technology that can be effectively used by solution analyst to configure
• Identify and mitigate risks
• Work with developers in transferring functional specs to technical specs
• Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to identify, analyze, understand and prioritize activities by business value and urgency
• Develop consultative partnerships with internal teams and leaders to understand their strategic objectives, key performance indicators and reporting requirements
• Support communications, meetings, and other collaborations as appropriate to effectively perform work and to understand, resolve, and/or mitigate risks, obstacles, and conflicts in the performance of functional activities
• Collaborate cross-functionally to enhance overall delivery of reporting across the business units and within the department
• Establish and collect KPI to measure business value delivered by projects and solutions
• Implement process to build budgets from the bottom up (annual and ongoing)
• Analyze and interpret information for planning and control purposes
• Present to leadership recommendations on opportunities
• Act as a resource for business and ETP unit segments relative to planning, analysis and budgeting, new product/services development and implementation, workflow analysis and costing information to evaluate and ensure competitiveness
• Lead the education and training of end users, working to increase end user proficiency and adoption of implemented solutions
• Understand, communicate, and reinforce standard process concepts and methodology within the ETP organization
• Serve as liaison across teams
• Develop opportunities to automate ETP processes and functions
• Communicate systems and procedural changes to end users through excellent written and oral communications
• Responsible for mentorship of junior team members

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree
• 5+ years leading medium to complex multi-million-dollar systems development programs
• Critical thinker
• Influencer
• Results-oriented
• Analytical/ID key interdependencies
• Facilitator
• Problem solver
• Budget and risk management
• Excellent communicator
• Highly collaborative
• Excellent communications
• Process-oriented
• Coaching/Mentoring
• Excellent presentation skills
• Executive presence
• Thought Leader
• Strategic Thinker
• Influencer
• Strong business acumen
• Proficient change management skills
• Capability to understand application portfolio as well as how the different systems contribute to daily business operations
• Ability to build, coach and lead teams with Agile delivery values
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams and influence across organizations
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, decision-making and quantitative analysis skills to provide insights into performance and efficiency opportunities
• Must be self-directed, autonomous, and yet be able to work well with multiple individuals at all levels of the organization on a regular basis, also demonstrate leadership skills and abilities
• Strong planning and organizational skills to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities
• Excellent customer service skills in all interactions with internal and external customers, including but not limited to personnel from other divisions, vendors, suppliers, and other departments
• Excellent communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills to build relationship and collaboration across different departments, sometimes virtually
• Proficiency using high mathematical concepts such as fractions, algebra, statistics, mathematical modelling and to some extent, calculus
• Understanding of IT processes and ability to translate and communicate technical concepts into business language

Benefits

• Bonus eligibility