Business Analysis

Programmers.io; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Programmers.io in Chicago seeks a Senior Business Analyst to drive IAM/security initiatives. You will elicit, analyze, document, and validate requirements, create BRDs/FRDs, and translate complex security needs into clear user stories.

You will collaborate with security architects, engineering teams, and stakeholders across governance, cloud security, and AI-related security domains to ensure compliant, delivery-focused requirements and traceability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Business Administration, or related field.
• 5 years of Business Analysis experience, preferably in information security, IAM, or technology programs.
• Experience with security, cloud, or identity-related initiatives.
• Strong requirements gathering, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience creating BRDs, FRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria.

Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyze, document, and validate business, functional, and non-functional requirements for security and IAM initiatives.
• Translate complex security and technical requirements into clear business requirements and user stories.
• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder discussions to gather requirements and align priorities.
• Create business process flows, use cases, data flows and process documentation.
• Support agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Partner with security architects and engineering teams on authentication, authorization, SSO, MFA, IAM governance.

Skills

Requirements gathering

Documentation

Stakeholder management

User stories

Communication skills

IAM concepts

Education

Bachelors in IS/CS/Cybersecurity/BA

Job description

Responsibilities

Business Analysis Requirements Management

• Elicit
• analyze
• document
• and validate business
• functional
• and non-functional requirements for security and IAM initiatives.
• Translate complex security and technical requirements into clear business requirements and user stories.
• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder discussions to gather requirements and align priorities.
• Create business process flows
• use cases
• data flows
• and process documentation.
• Support Agile
• Waterfall
• and hybrid delivery methodologies.

Security IAM Program Support

• Partner with security architects and engineering teams on initiatives involving Authentication and Authorization
• Single Sign-On (SSO)
• Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
• Identity Governance and Administration (IGA)
• Privileged Access Management (PAM)
• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
• Conditional Access
• Cloud Identity Management
• AI and Agentic Identity Governance
• Assist in documenting identity lifecycle processes
• access review requirements
• entitlement models
• and governance controls.
• Support implementation and enhancement of security policies
• standards
• and procedures.

Governance | Risk Compliance

• Governance
• Risk ComplianceAssist in audit readiness activities and evidence collection.
• Support regulatory and compliance assessments related to identity and access management.
• Track remediation activities
• risk findings
• and control improvements.
• Collaborate with Risk Management
• Compliance
• and Internal Audit teams.

Data Analysis Reporting

• Analyze security
• IAM
• and operational data to identify trends
• risks
• and improvement opportunities.
• Develop dashboards
• metrics
• and executive reporting materials.
• Support KPI
• KRI
• and performance reporting for security initiatives.
• Perform data validation
• quality assessments
• and business impact analysis.

Stakeholder Management

• Act as a liaison between business stakeholders
• security teams
• and technology organizations.
• Facilitate communication across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Support program governance
• steering committee reporting
• and executive presentations.
• Manage project documentation and maintain requirement traceability.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Information Systems
• Computer Science
• Cybersecurity
• Business Administration
• or a related discipline.
• 5 years of Business Analysis experience
• preferably supporting Information Security
• Cybersecurity
• IAM
• or Technology programs.
• Experience working with security
• cloud
• or identity-related initiatives.
• Strong requirements gathering
• documentation
• and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience creating Business Requirements Documents (BRDs)
• Functional Requirements Documents (FRDs)
• User Stories and Acceptance Criteria
• Process Flow Diagrams
• Data Models and Reporting Requirements
• Strong analytical
• problem-solving
• and organizational skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication ski

Essential Skills: We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Business Analyst to support strategic and operational initiatives across Identity and Access Management (IAM) Authentication Authorization Governance Cloud Security and emerging AI-related security domains. The successful candidate will work closely with security architects engineering teams business stakeholders auditors risk managers and project teams to define requirements analyze business processes support security initiatives and drive successful delivery of security programs. The ideal candidate combines strong analytical and communication skills with a solid understanding of information security concepts and identity governance practices.