Attack Readiness Analytics Lead

Vanguard; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard is seeking an Attack Readiness Insights Specialist to partner with product, data engineering, cybersecurity, risk, and business stakeholders. You will design, develop, and deliver dashboards, scorecards, and visualizations to support attack readiness decisions for executive and technical audiences.

You will translate complex requirements into reporting specifications, create intuitive reporting experiences, and drive continuous improvement with governance, data quality, and automation

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in business intelligence, reporting, analytics, data visualization, or a related field.
• Advanced experience developing dashboards, scorecards, and visualizations using enterprise reporting tools.
• Strong understanding of reporting design, information architecture, data visualization principles, and user experience concepts.
• Experience writing and optimizing complex queries and working with relational and dimensional data models.
• Ability to gather requirements, consult with stakeholders, and translate business objectives into reporting solutions.
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Experience supporting cybersecurity, vulnerability management, security operations, risk management, or technical control reporting.
• Experience with enterprise BI and visualization platforms such as Tableau, Power BI, or similar technologies.
• Experience creating executive‑level reporting and data storytelling solutions.
• Experience leading reporting automation, standardization, or dashboard modernization initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Engage with leaders, product owners, security teams, and business stakeholders to understand objectives, reporting needs, and success measures.
• Leverage deep understanding of cybersecurity, risk, and business priorities to anticipate reporting requirements and recommend reporting strategies that support decision-making.
• Translate complex business, security, and operational requirements into reporting specifications, dashboard designs, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Communicate report findings, trends, risks, and opportunities to technical and non-technical audiences through presentations, visualizations, and written reporting.
• Design, develop, and maintain complex dashboards, scorecards, visualizations, and reporting solutions using approved enterprise reporting platforms.
• Apply visualization, usability, accessibility, and user-experience best practices to create intuitive and actionable reporting experiences.
• Develop reusable reporting components, design standards, and visualization patterns that improve consistency and efficiency across reporting products.
• Create prototypes and mockups that validate information architecture, navigation, filtering, drill-down capabilities, and user workflows before implementation.
• Acquire, compile, validate, and analyze structured and unstructured data from approved enterprise sources.
• Verify data quality, completeness, accuracy, consistency, and reasonableness and partner with data engineering teams to resolve identified issues.
• Define and communicate data requirements including required dimensions, measures, metrics, history, refresh cadence, and performance expectations.
• Perform data validation, reconciliation, and testing to ensure reporting outputs accurately reflect approved business and security metrics.
• Own and manage recurring reporting processes, reporting schedules, dashboard maintenance, and production support activities.
• Design and develop high‑complexity ad hoc reports and analyses to address emerging stakeholder questions and business needs.
• Identify opportunities to enhance reporting capabilities through automation, process improvements, standardization, and reusable reporting assets.
• Monitor dashboard performance, investigate reporting issues, optimize queries, and implement improvements to improve reliability and user experience.
• Develop and maintain reporting documentation, metric definitions, data dictionaries, user guides, and operational procedures.
• Act as a subject matter expert for reporting, visualization, dashboard design, and security metrics within the organization.
• Review reporting solutions, calculations, and analytical approaches developed by peers and provide guidance on best practices.
• Coach and mentor team members on reporting technologies, visualization techniques, dashboard design, and data literacy.
• Stay informed on advancements in reporting technologies, cybersecurity reporting trends, business intelligence capabilities, and visualization practices.
• Contribute to the development of the broader reporting community by sharing knowledge, participating in forums, and promoting reporting standards and best practices.
• Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

BI experience

Data visualization

Analytics

Reporting

SQL/Data queries

Stakeholder collaboration

Communication skills

Tableau

Power BI

Education

Undergraduate degree or equivalent

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

Vanguard is seeking an Attack Readiness Insights Specialist to partner with product, data engineering, cybersecurity, risk, and business stakeholders. You will design, develop, and deliver dashboards, scorecards, and visualizations to support attack readiness decisions for executive and technical audiences.

You will translate complex requirements into reporting specifications, create intuitive reporting experiences, and drive continuous improvement with governance, data quality, and automation