Senior Business Analyst with Heavy Infrastructure, Cloud and Cyber Security

The Culper Group; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Culper Group is seeking a Senior Business Analyst with expertise in IT Infrastructure, Cloud, and Cyber Security located in Raleigh, North Carolina. This long-term contract role may lead to permanent employment and offers a strong work/life balance.

The ideal candidate will manage key projects, drive stakeholder engagement, and lead business case development. Candidates must have a strong knowledge of IT Infrastructure and demonstrate analytical and communication skills.

Qualifications

• Experience in IT Infrastructure, preferably with Cloud or Cyber Security.
• Strong knowledge of servers, storage, networks, and databases.
• Proven experience in managing stakeholders and project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Scope, deliver, and improve IT Infrastructure projects.
• Drive identification of opportunities and develop business cases.
• Engage and manage stakeholders for project success.

Skills

IT Infrastructure knowledge

Cloud technology

Cyber Security

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Verbal communication

MS Office proficiency

Education

BA in a relevant field

Tools

JIRA

Tableau

Job description

Senior Business Analyst with Heavy Infrastructure, Cloud and Cyber Security

Contract

TCG offers consultant staffing, employee recruiting, and executive search solutions backed by years of experience developing custom hiring strategies for a variety of technical skills. Our clients range from startups to Fortune 500 companies across North America in the financial services, investment banking, and fintech industries.

A Top Financial firm in RTP is looking for an Infrastructure BA with Cloud or Cyber Security experience.

This is a long term contract with possible conversion to perm and a role with a good work / life balance.

A Business Analyst to work on IT Infrastructure projects. This role would be a member of a centrally managed BA pool.

Key Responsibilities: Scope (strategy), deliver (implementation), and improve (maintenance) a mixture of large and medium scale global projects influencing the IT 3-year vision. Balance the use of skills in strategic vision and grounding them in practicality and Operational Efficiency to help improve services and capabilities already in production/BAU.

• Understanding the business need, creating a clear problem statement, and crafting a vision for change
• Driving the identification of opportunities and the development & validation of project / program Business Cases with its expected benefits. Supporting/seeking approval for funding to execute against the defined business case
• Identifying, engaging, and managing stakeholders
• Engineering and managing requirements across the portfolio; identifying dependencies and risks and driving integration of parallel activities across the program
• Driving the requirements prioritization process, developing requirements specifications, and securing stakeholder agreement
• Partnering with solution architecture, product management, and engineering in the development of solutions that meet the requirements; documenting current & to be processes, technologies, workflows and data flows. Preparing gap analysis, use cases and implementation plans. Representing customer interests in the solutions process
• Performing solution evaluations and selection and elicit customer agreement on the solutions
• Articulate and address the implications of the introduction of a new solution on the current and future technology, process, and organizational landscape
• Partnering closely with stakeholders, suppliers (internal and external as required), project managers, and customers to ensure the testing and successful delivery of solutions is in line with the agreed specifications

Qualifications:

• Experienced IT Infrastructure required – Cloud technology or Cyber Security preferred. A BA from the application development world is acceptable as long as they have a sound grasp of IT infrastructure.
• The candidate must have strong knowledge of, not necessarily experience with IT Infrastructure including servers, storage, networks, and databases and how IT applications consume them
• Practical knowledge in applying information security standards (e.g. ISO 27001) and/or cyber security best practices (e.g. NIST Cybersecurity Framework)
• Experience working in a global environment across different cultures
• Experience of global project delivery with a proven history of providing analysis and solutions that supports successful project delivery in a matrix environment
• Specific experience delivering the following project types a plus: part of a global project team to deliver operational capabilities to rapidly and effectively identify, detect and respond to cyber security events, vulnerabilities, and threats targeting our firm
• Proven experience in analyzing application infrastructure design, classification of apps in areas such as regulatory and non-functional (e.g. suitability analysis), and strong leadership in managing application stakeholders
• Senior stakeholder management; influencing and managing expectations, and selling the program
• Requirements and issues management leveraging tools such as JIRA and Odysseus
• Work intelligently with data and business analysis, supporting development of business cases, metrics and visualizations to support proposals
• Ability to analyze financial, technical and service level data and compile for presentation to senior staff
• Organization analysis mapping process/activity flows, roles and responsibilities, etc.
• Helping build the BA team brand and supporting best practices and standardization is vital
• Ability to work through ambiguity and complexity to create propositions to support solutions
• Ability to use excellent written and verbal communication skills and produced material to sell a concept or support a solution
• Strong analytical, planning, problem solving, and presentation skills
• High professional standards, collaborative, and client focused
• Proficiency in MS Office applications such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Visio

Desired Skills and Qualifications:

• Experience in Agile project delivery methodology
• Proficiency in data visualization tools such as iAnalyze, Tableau, or similar tools is desired
• Experience working with CMDB such as HPAM or DataOne; integration into the data lake
• Application onboarding/migrations to new infrastructure platforms
• Infrastructure tools rationalization, decom, and replacement (RFPs/RFIs)
• IT Service design and measurement (moving from 'product' to 'service-based’ operations)
• Strong process design and process engineering skills
• Comfortable working with people up to MD level
• Ability to work in a fast paced, demanding environment turning the 'unknowns' into 'knowns'

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.