Business Analyst-Cybersecurity

Wipro Technologies; Norwich; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in the UK is looking for an Agile Business Analyst to work within their CISO department. The role involves engaging with stakeholders to define requirements for improving security processes. Ideal candidates will have strong knowledge of cyber security and proven problem-solving skills. Competitive salary and benefits offered, ensuring a rewarding career within a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Contributory pension of up to 5%

Extra holiday purchase

4x life insurance policy

Private medical insurance (50%)

Qualifications

• Experience in advising on or developing security architectures.
• Good understanding of cyber security in financial organizations.
• Proven background in business analysis in cyber security.

Responsibilities

• Lead workshops to elicit business requirements.
• Work with project teams to define and document requirements.
• Assess security problems raised by CISO teams.

Skills

Business analysis

Problem solving

Cyber security knowledge

Agile methodology

Communication skills

Documentation skills

Education

Security qualifications (CISM, CISA, CISSP)

Tools

Risk assessment methods (IRAM2, OCTAVE, NIST)

Security technologies (firewalls, WAFs)

Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Job description

Working within the CISO department as part of the security engineering team, the BA will be working with internal and external stakeholders (both IT and non‑IT areas). Accountable for managing key business stakeholders to define requirements for change initiatives aimed at improving processes and systems ensuring alignment to business benefits and assuring quality delivery & testing of these requirements as per business protection standards and technical specifications.

Responsibilities

• Lead the facilitation of business workshops to elicit, challenge, develop and convert business, functional, and non‑functional requirements into process/systems solutions considering IT and business drivers.
• Ensure all documented requirements are delivered in a clear, concise, and timely fashion, suitable for handover to the Project delivery teams including Solution Architects and Test Leads.
• Ensure that the requirements' acceptance criteria, integrity and traceability is maintained throughout the project lifecycle working alongside both internal and external suppliers. Qualification and quantification of business benefits relating to requirements for change and improved business processes, including impact assessment of change requests to scope and requirements.
• Ensure the quality & timeliness of the analysis, requirements, specifications & acceptance criteria produced with the security engineering function to guide the strategy around new security technology controls as well as with infrastructure engineering and application development programs and teams to advise on the security risks they need to address and the correct selection and implementation of controls.
• Work directly with multiple IT infrastructure and application development projects and teams to apply standard technical risk assessment methods to identify and prioritize risks for remediation.
• Review architecture and design documents to help ensure the correct implementation of security technology controls.
• Contribute to the development of improved risk assessment approaches.
• Contribute to the systemization of the delivery of security advisory services, bridge the communications gap between the CISO teams and cyber security tool providers during solution analysis.
• Impact assess security problems raised by CISO teams.
• Map current and target security operations model and processes.
• Gather business requirements to assist with finding appropriate solutions to cyber security problems.
• Facilitate 'show and tell' sessions with business users and/or CISO teams to demonstrate security solutions.

Qualifications and Technical Knowledge

• Security qualifications, which may include CISM, CISA, CISSP, BS7799 Auditor or other. Knowledge of risk management concepts including risk assessment and risk treatment techniques and methodologies, including:
• Risk Assessment methods and frameworks (IRAM2, OCTAVE, NIST, ISO 27005, etc.)
• Information Security Management System frameworks and standards and their application.
• Compliance frameworks relevant to financial services including SOX, PCI DSS, SSAE16, etc.
• Good working knowledge of one or more security technologies and domains, including, but not limited to network security, cyber security, data security, identity and access management, application security & cloud security (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS).
• Experience in advising on or developing security architectures and designs for one or more security technology domains.
• Security technologies (firewalls, WAFs, DLP, cryptography, vulnerability scanning, identity and access management, etc.).
• Delivering security changes to meet the CISO business needs. Appreciation of different cyber threats such as malicious cyber‑attacks, phishing, data theft, domain fronting, HTML smuggling, etc.
• Good understanding of cyber security working in financial organizations.
• Good understanding of the need for tight data loss prevention controls to protect financial organisations from data theft and leakage, etc.
• Good understanding of networks, firewalls, proxies, traffic routing and management.
• A good understanding of risk and issue management.
• Basic cloud knowledge on any of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP.

Skillset

• Proven business analysis, problem solving, issue tracking and resolution skills.
• An in‑depth understanding of cyber security and security operations concepts, tooling and practices.
• Experience as an Agile Business Analyst within a cyber security environment.
• Good communication skills and the ability to capture requirements and express them in a clear and concise manner.
• Ability to develop user flows and process diagrams and documentation.
• An appreciation of threat‑intelligence techniques and the threat landscape for Financial Services organizations.
• Created and published procedural and policy documentation and guidance.
• Bridge the communications gap between the business users and security functions during process analysis.

Benefits

Benefits: You will receive a competitive salary, a generous benefits package, training, and development, as well as an exciting career within a fast‑paced and dynamic business. Your benefits include:

• Contributory pension of up to 5%
• Extra holiday purchase
• 4x life insurance policy
• Private medical insurance (50%)

Equal Opportunities

Wipro is an advocate for positive change and conscious inclusion. As a global employer, we strive to create a diverse Wipro family by remaining committed to the development of our culture, diversity, equality, and inclusion in the workplace. All applicants welcome.