Attack Readiness Insights, Specialist (UI and Visualization)

The Vanguard Group; United States; Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

The Vanguard Group is seeking an Attack Readiness Insights Specialist who partners across product, data engineering, cybersecurity, risk, and business teams to design, develop, and deliver reporting, dashboards, and visualizations that support decision-making.

You will transform governed security data into actionable insights for executive, risk, security, and developer audiences, applying BI expertise to define requirements, validate data, and deliver intuitive reporting experiences.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in BI, reporting, analytics, or a related field.
• Experience with cybersecurity or risk reporting is preferred.
• Ability to translate business needs into reporting specifications.

Responsibilities

• Engage with leaders and stakeholders to understand reporting needs and success measures.
• Develop and maintain dashboards, scorecards, visualizations, and reporting solutions using enterprise platforms.
• Acquire, validate, and analyze data from approved enterprise sources; ensure data quality.
• Own recurring reporting processes and drive continuous improvement in reporting operations.
• Coach and mentor team members on reporting technologies and data literacy.

Skills

BI reporting

Data visualization

Stakeholder engagement

SQL & data modeling

Education

Undergraduate degree

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

SQL

Python

Job description

The Attack Readiness Insights Specialist partners with product, data engineering, cybersecurity, risk, and business stakeholders to design, develop, and deliver reporting, dashboards, scorecards, and visualizations that support attack readiness decision-making. This role transforms governed security data into actionable insights for executive, risk, security, application-owner, and developer audiences. The Specialist applies advanced reporting, visualization, and business intelligence expertise to understand business needs, define reporting requirements, validate data quality, and deliver intuitive reporting experiences. The role serves as a trusted advisor on reporting strategy, user experience, visualization design, and security metrics while supporting ongoing reporting operations and continuous improvement initiatives.

Core Responsibilities

Reporting Strategy and Business Partnership

Engage with leaders, product owners, security teams, and business stakeholders to understand objectives, key decisions, 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.

Dashboard Development and Visualization 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.

Data Management and Quality Assurance

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.

Reporting Operations and Continuous Improvement

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.

Reporting Expertise and Community Development

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.

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.

Special Factors

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. Vanguard, one of the world's leading investment management companies, serves individual investors, institutions, employer-sponsored retirement plans, and financial professionals. We have a diverse and talented crew with a culture that promotes teamwork, along with an unwavering focus on serving our clients' best interests.