Attack Readiness Insights, Senior Analyst (UI and Visualization)

Vanguard; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard is seeking an Attack Readiness Insights, Senior Analyst to transform security and risk data into actionable reports, dashboards, and visualizations for executive and technical audiences.

You will partner with stakeholders, develop dashboards, ensure data quality, and drive standardized reporting practices across security and risk domains. Hybrid work model supported; strong analytics and communication skills required.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in reporting, analytics, data visualization, BI, or related field.
• Experience developing dashboards, reports, and visualizations using enterprise tools.
• Experience with structured and unstructured data sources.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
• Ability to gather requirements and translate business questions into reporting and analytical solutions.
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Experience supporting cybersecurity, vulnerability management, security operations, risk management, or technical control reporting.
• Experience with Tableau, Power BI, or equivalent platforms.
• Familiarity with SQL, cloud-based data platforms, APIs, semantic models, and data governance practices.
• Experience developing executive-facing dashboards and reporting solutions.
• Experience supporting reporting automation and dashboard modernization.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cybersecurity, technology, risk, and business stakeholders to understand reporting needs and objectives.
• Translate stakeholder requirements into analytical approaches and dashboard enhancements.
• Support reporting projects from requirements through deployment and maintenance.
• Present results and trends through dashboards, visuals, and executive summaries tailored to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance dashboards, scorecards, and reports using enterprise platforms.
• Apply best practices to improve stakeholder understanding and support decision‑making.
• Create prototypes and mockups to validate requirements and user needs.
• Develop standardized reporting components and visualization patterns.
• Acquire, join, and analyze structured and unstructured data from approved sources.
• Verify data quality and investigate discrepancies with partners.
• Perform trend and descriptive analytics to identify insights and risks.
• Support testing, validation, reconciliation, and quality-review activities.
• Develop and maintain reporting documentation, metric definitions, and user guides.
• Share best practices with peers and junior analysts; support onboarding and training.
• Continuously develop expertise in cybersecurity reporting and BI.
• Participate in reporting community forums and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Data visualization

Business intelligence

Requirements gathering

Written and verbal communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

SQL

Cloud data platforms

APIs

Job description

The Attack Readiness Insights, Senior Analyst transforms security, risk, and operational data into actionable reports, dashboards, scorecards, and visualizations that help stakeholders understand attack readiness, security posture, and remediation priorities. A successful candidate supports the delivery of trusted, intuitive, and data-driven insights for executive, risk, security, application-owner, and developer audiences.

Core Responsibilities

Reporting & Business Partnership

• Partner with cybersecurity, technology, risk, and business stakeholders to understand reporting needs, business objectives, and key decisions requiring data-driven insights.
• Translate stakeholder requirements into analytical approaches, reporting solutions, dashboard enhancements, and actionable recommendations.
• Support reporting projects from requirements gathering through implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance.
• Present reporting results, trends, risks, and opportunities through dashboards, visualizations, written summaries, and presentations tailored to technical and non-technical audiences.

Dashboard Development & Visualization

• Develop, maintain, and enhance dashboards, scorecards, reports, and visualizations using approved enterprise reporting platforms.
• Apply visualization, usability, accessibility, and reporting best practices to improve stakeholder understanding and support decision‑making.
• Create prototypes, mockups, and dashboard concepts that validate reporting requirements and user needs.
• Support the development and adoption of standardized reporting components, visualization patterns, and dashboard design practices.

Data Analysis & Quality Management

• Acquire, compile, integrate, and analyze structured and unstructured data from approved enterprise sources.
• Verify data quality, accuracy, completeness, consistency, and reasonableness and investigate discrepancies with appropriate partners.
• Perform trend analysis, exploratory analysis, and descriptive analytics to identify meaningful insights, risks, and opportunities.
• Support testing, validation, reconciliation, and quality‑review activities to ensure reporting outputs accurately represent approved metrics and business definitions.

Reporting Operations & Process Management

• Develop, maintain, and execute recurring reporting processes, dashboard refresh activities, and operational reporting schedules.
• Produce high‑quality ad hoc reports and analyses in response to emerging stakeholder needs and business questions.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency through reporting automation, process optimization, standardization, and reusable reporting assets.
• Monitor dashboard and reporting performance, investigate issues, and implement enhancements that improve reporting quality, reliability, and usability.
• Develop and maintain reporting documentation, metric definitions, user guides, and operational procedures.

Team Development & Knowledge Sharing

• Share reporting, visualization, and analytical best practices with peers and junior analysts.
• Support onboarding, training, and coaching efforts related to reporting tools, dashboard usage, data literacy, and visualization techniques.
• Continuously develop expertise in cybersecurity reporting, attack readiness metrics, business intelligence, data visualization, and emerging reporting technologies.
• Participate in reporting community forums, knowledge‑sharing activities, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in reporting, analytics, data visualization, business intelligence, or a related field.
• Experience developing dashboards, reports, and visualizations using enterprise reporting and analytics tools.
• Experience working with structured and unstructured data sources.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and critical‑thinking skills.
• Ability to gather requirements and translate business questions into reporting and analytical solutions.
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Experience supporting cybersecurity, vulnerability management, security operations, risk management, or technical control reporting.
• Experience with Tableau, Power BI, or equivalent enterprise visualization platforms.
• Familiarity with SQL, cloud‑based data platforms, APIs, semantic models, and data governance practices.
• Experience developing executive‑facing dashboards and reporting solutions.
• Experience supporting reporting automation, dashboard modernization, or process improvement initiatives.
• Exposure to security metrics, attack surface management, vulnerability management, or security posture reporting.

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.

To work for the long‑term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in‑person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission‑driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long‑term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.