IAM Business Analyst

Hitachi; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Vantara is seeking an experienced Senior IAM Business Analyst to bridge business needs with IAM architecture and engineering teams. You will translate complex requirements into actionable IAM solutions, coordinating across stakeholders and ensuring security outcomes across the organization.

You will lead use-case development, workflows, acceptance criteria, and dependencies while validating feasibility and security considerations with IAM experts.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a Business Analyst, Senior Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, Technology Analyst, or similar role working between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams.
• Experience within Identity and Access Management, Cybersecurity, or another complex enterprise technology or security environment.
• Strong knowledge of IAM concepts including authentication, authorization, SSO, MFA, identity lifecycle management, access governance, privileged access, roles, permissions, and entitlement management.
• Familiarity with enterprise IAM technologies such as Okta, Auth0, Active Directory, identity governance, and privileged access management platforms.
• Strong experience translating complex business needs into functional requirements, workflows, use cases, acceptance criteria, and actionable technical work.
• Experience with enterprise service-management and work-management platforms such as ServiceNow and Jira.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with the confidence to question assumptions, identify gaps, and constructively challenge poorly defined requirements.
• Ability to independently coordinate complex work across technical teams and business stakeholders while managing competing priorities, dependencies, risks, and expectations.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English, with the ability to communicate complex IAM and cybersecurity concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a key connection between business stakeholders, IAM architects, engineers, developers, and operational teams.
• Drive requirements gathering for IAM initiatives, including defining use cases, workflows, acceptance criteria, dependencies, risks, and expected outcomes.
• Review and triage IAM requests to determine business need, scope, impact, priority, and delivery path.
• Validate technical feasibility, security considerations, standards, and solution direction with IAM architects and subject-matter experts.
• Coordinate work across architecture, engineering, development, testing, operations, and business stakeholders throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Manage IAM demand through ServiceNow and Jira, including priorities, dependencies, decisions, risks, and blockers.
• Lead change-management activities for IAM initiatives and drive stakeholder readiness and communications.
• Develop and improve IAM processes, workflows, documentation, intake, prioritization, and delivery practices.

Skills

IAM concepts

Stakeholder management

Requirements gathering

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical thinking

English communication

Tools

Okta

Auth0

Active Directory

ServiceNow

Jira

Job description

Описание:

Function Cybersecurity Our Company We're Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers - from banks to theme parks - can focus on achieving the incredible with data. If you've seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you've seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate - and wow their customers. Right now, we're laying the foundation for our next wave of growth. We're looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team - and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.

Задачи:

Meet our Team We are the Identity and Access Management team, part of Cybersecurity at Hitachi Vantara, and we are passionate advocates of cybersecurity! We maintain key tools, processes, and capabilities across our corporate environment that ensure the proper identity and access management of our employees, vendors, customers, partners, applications, and non-human identities. We are out-of-the-box thinkers, innovators, and team players. We constantly seek new and better ways of doing things. We need highly motivated individuals to join our dynamic team who have positive attitudes, enjoy solving complex business problems, and want to be part of something special. We strive for nothing less than the very best IAM program! As an experienced Senior IAM Business Analyst, you will join our Identity and Access Management team and serve as a key connection between our business and technology stakeholders and our IAM architects, engineers, developers, and operational teams. In this role, you will be responsible for understanding complex business needs and translating them into clear, actionable IAM requirements. You will help drive work from initial intake and requirements definition through solution development, testing, implementation, and business acceptance. To be a great fit for this role, you should have a strong working knowledge of Identity and Access Management and be comfortable operating across both business and technical organizations. You will help stakeholders understand IAM capabilities, challenge unclear requirements, identify dependencies and risks, establish priorities, and ensure IAM solutions deliver the intended business and security outcomes. Your tasks will also include Partnering with business, IT, Cybersecurity, and application teams to understand identity and access needs and translate them into clear business and functional requirements. Leading requirements gathering for IAM initiatives, including defining use cases, workflows, acceptance criteria, dependencies, risks, and expected outcomes. Reviewing and triaging incoming IAM requests to determine business need, scope, impact, priority, and the appropriate path for delivery. Working closely with IAM architects and subject-matter experts to validate technical feasibility, security considerations, standards, and solution direction. Coordinating work across architecture, engineering, development, testing, operations, and business stakeholders throughout the delivery lifecycle. Managing and tracking IAM demand through ServiceNow and Jira, including priorities, dependencies, decisions, risks, and blockers. Challenging ambiguous requirements and helping stakeholders distinguish the underlying business need from a predetermined technical solution. Coordinating business acceptance, stakeholder readiness, communications, and change-management activities for IAM initiatives. Developing and improving IAM processes, workflows, documentation, intake, prioritization, and delivery practices. Building strong relationships across Cybersecurity, IT, and the business while providing guidance and mentorship to less-experienced analysts.

Требования:

Significant experience as a Business Analyst, Senior Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, Technology Analyst, or similar role working between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams. Experience within Identity and Access Management, Cybersecurity, or another complex enterprise technology or security environment. Strong knowledge of IAM concepts including authentication, authorization, SSO, MFA, identity lifecycle management, access governance, privileged access, roles, permissions, and entitlement management. Familiarity with enterprise IAM technologies such as Okta, Auth0, Active Directory, identity governance, and privileged access management platforms. Strong experience translating complex business needs into functional requirements, workflows, use cases, acceptance criteria, and actionable technical work. Experience with enterprise service-management and work-management platforms such as ServiceNow and Jira. Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with the confidence to question assumptions, identify gaps, and constructively challenge poorly defined requirements. Ability to independently coordinate complex work across technical teams and business stakeholders while managing competing priorities, dependencies, risks, and expectations. Excellent written and oral communication skills in English, with the ability to communicate complex IAM and cybersecurity concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Условия:

We're a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential. Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth. We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We're also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We're always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you'll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with. We're proud to say we're an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.