Analyst, Risk Analytics

Sony Corporation; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 88,000 - 129,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Disability accommodation

Job summary

Sony Corporation of America is seeking a Senior Analyst, Risk Analytics to join its Corporate Information Security Division. The role involves building data-driven risk analytics, ETL pipelines, and dashboards to support senior leadership decisions and monitor security performance.

You will work across security, IT, and business contexts to translate data into actionable insights, collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to drive risk-aware decisions.

Qualifications

• Advanced statistics and data visualization proficiency.
• Experience with information security concepts and risk management.
• Ability to analyze large complex datasets.
• Experience with data modeling (star/snowflake).
• Proficiency in SQL and Python or R.
• 2+ years in information security, IT, data analysis, or related field.
• Strong problem-solving and communication with stakeholders.
• Understanding of data quality frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Build, refine, and maintain ETL pipelines across multiple data sources.
• Develop tools, scripts, and automation for risk measurement and platform operations.
• Create analytics, metrics, and dashboards to monitor security performance.
• Analyze large volumes of data to identify trends and emerging risks.
• Translate findings into clear material for executives and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to frame analytical problems.
• Provide stakeholder support and deliver reports on evolving needs.
• Document solutions, workflows, and procedures for consistency.

Skills

Statistics

Data analysis

Data visualization

Information security concepts

Data modeling

SQL

Python

R

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Statistics, Data Analysis, or related field

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Looker

Domo

Job description

Sony Corporation of America, located in New York, NY, is the U.S. headquarters of Sony Group Corporation, based in Tokyo, Japan. Sony's principal U.S. businesses include Sony Electronics Inc., Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Music Publishing and Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. With some 900 million Sony devices in hands and homes worldwide today, a vast array of Sony movies, television shows and music, and the PlayStation Network, Sony creates and delivers more entertainment experiences to more people than anyone else on earth. To learn more: www.sony.com/en. Sony is seeking a Senior Analyst, Risk Analytics to join Sony’s Corporate Information Security Division in London, UK. In this role, you’ll partner across the global information security, IT, and business landscape to design, implement, and evolve a data-driven Global Information Security Risk Analytics platform. Reporting to the Director of Risk Analytics, you will help transform diverse and complex datasets into objective, actionable insights that support senior leadership decision-making and monitor the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Sony assets. You’ll work closely with technical and non-technical teams to understand operational challenges, uncover meaningful data patterns, build analytical and engineering solutions, and translate results into intuitive, compelling stories.

This is a hands‑on role that blends data engineering, data analysis, and stakeholder engagement to mature Sony’s enterprise-wide security risk intelligence capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, refine, and maintain ETL pipelines that integrate data from multiple sources while ensuring quality, consistency, and trustworthiness.
• Develop tools, scripts, and automation to streamline data processing, risk measurement, and platform operations.
• Develop and maintain analytics, metrics, and dashboards that measure information security performance, risk exposure, remediation progress, and control effectiveness.
• Analyze large volumes of security, IT, and business data to identify trends, anomalies, and emerging risks.
• Translate analytical findings into clear, compelling material for executives and operational stakeholders.
• Contribute to the design and evaluation of metrics, models, and dashboards used to monitor information security performance Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to understand requirements, frame analytical problems, and deliver actionable insights.
• Provide excellent stakeholder support, including communication, requirements definition, and delivery of reports and dashboards that meet evolving needs.
• Document solutions, workflows, and procedures to help ensure consistency, accuracy, and knowledge sharing.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Advanced understanding of statistics, data analysis, and data visualization.
• Working knowledge of common information security and IT concepts, such as vulnerability management, patching, endpoint security, cloud security, identity and access management, asset inventory, logging/monitoring, or risk management.
• Ability to analyze large and complex security, IT, and business datasets to identify trends, anomalies, data quality issues, and emerging risks.
• Experience with data modeling (star/snowflake schema, dimensional modeling).
• Proficiency with relational database (SQL) and programming/scripting (Python or R).
• Typically 2 years of relevant experience in information security, IT, data analysis, statistics, or related field.
• Strong problem‑solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to thrive in a dynamic environment.
• Interest in both deep technical data exploration and high‑quality stakeholder engagement.
• Ability to translate business questions into analytical approaches and present insights clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Understanding of data quality frameworks (validation, profiling, anomaly detection).

Preferred Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Statistics, Data Analysis, or a mathematics/information security field.
• Hands‑on experience with cybersecurity or IT data sources, such as vulnerability scanners, endpoint detection tools, CMDBs, cloud platforms, identity systems, SIEM/logging platforms, or ticketing systems.
• Experience with version control tools (e.g., Git/GitHub/Gitlab) o Hands‑on experience with data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Domo).

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, ordinance, or regulation.

Disability Accommodation for Applicants to Sony Corporation of America Sony Corporation of America provides reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in job application procedures. For reasonable accommodation requests, please contact us by email at [e-mail] or by mail to: Sony Corporation of America, People Experience Department, 25 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010.

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