Title: Cybersecurity Business Analyst
Location: Oakland, CA - Hybrid
Duration: 12+ months contract with possible extension
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering or a job-related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- 4 years of closely related work experience, 3 of which is in business analysis.
- 2 years of working experience in an Agile environment as a business analyst.
Desired:
- Experience with Governance, Risk, and Compliance.
- 5 years of direct business analysis experience.
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Certificate.
- CCBA-certification of Competency in Business Analysis.
- IT Background (especially cybersecurity and infrastructure components).
- Experience collaborating with Director and VP-level leadership.
- Experience serving and meeting the needs of internal and/or external customers.
- Direct participation in a diverse collection of high complexity projects related to IT security.
- Experience in Agile methodologies such as Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), LEAN, Kanban, and Scrum.
- Utilities background in energy sector.
Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
- Demonstrated experience of and knowledge in a broad range of IT and cybersecurity areas (e.g., applications, infrastructure, processes).
- Systems thinking approach to problem solving with strong visualization skills.
- Practical experience collaborating with stakeholders and others to identify, clarify, and articulate product vision.
- Ability to demonstrate techniques for effectively interviewing stakeholders, SMEs, and users to understand customer needs and utilize this information to create user stories and generate appropriate business analysis artifacts such as: process flow maps, use cases, value stream maps, etc.
- Capability to have birds-eye view (i.e., 100k foot view) of a problem as well as be detail-oriented.
- Must demonstrate excellent communication skills at all levels, written, verbal, visual, and interpersonal
Job Responsibilities
- Manage regular cadence for story definition, story writing, story review, and story prioritization to maintain a well-refined and prioritized backlog of sufficient length to support the team's velocity when required
- Ensures that stories are written by the team and Product Owner at the appropriate level of detail and size to allow team to deliver value frequently.
- Clearly understands the needs related to the product by working closely with the Product Owner, SMEs, and other business partners, so they can clearly communicate the product vision and client's needs to the team.
- Research and analyze requirements to ensure that the appropriate information and context is available for the team to conduct productive story writing sessions.
- Reviews or creates process and flow maps to understand the business processes and system flows, in order to fully document the required business analysis deliverable.
- Reduce complex problems to easily understood narratives and informational materials (drawings, infographics, presentations, etc.).