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OT Cyber Business Analyst

Pontoon
Posted 2 days ago, valid for 2 days
Location

Kenilworth, Warwickshire CV8 2LD, England

Contract type

Full Time

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  • A Cyber Business Analyst is needed for a predominantly remote role, with occasional onsite work in Warwick, for a duration of 6 months.
  • The position offers a daily rate of £600 - £650 and requires candidates to have a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.
  • The primary responsibilities include analyzing the implementation of a Vulnerability Management solution, as well as hardware and software change management.
  • Candidates should possess expertise in business analysis techniques, stakeholder relationship management, and familiarity with Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
  • Experience in Operational Technology and knowledge of cybersecurity regulations are highly desirable for this role.

Cyber Business AnalystUtilitiesPredominantly remote: Onsite in Warwick when needed6 months£600 - £650 per day

In short: Cyber BA required to analyse the end-to-end (including procurement) implementation of a Vulnerability Management solution. Secondary to this is hardware / software change management.

OT (Operational Technology) or CNI experience would be extremely desirable

In full:

The Operational Technology (OT) Security Programme operates using a hybrid delivery approach to deliver new products, services, and capabilities to the Security function. The team aims to support the reduction of systemic and local cyber risks and increase cyber resilience across the OT domain through targeted investment in several workstreams.

The role primarily targets deliverables within the Security Programme but also supports ongoing improvements to cyber maturity and other changes within the business.

The OT Security Programme Business Analyst is responsible for analysing and assessing business needs and documenting them as requirements in an appropriate format to enable the definition, development, and implementation of solutions that will meet these needs. They will create and provide input to a range of other project deliverables, work across the entire development lifecycle, and collaborate with business stakeholders, developers, and external vendors to scope, develop, refine, and test solutions and business processes, as well as support the implementation and adoption of processes.

Key accountabilities:

  • Work with business stakeholders to establish a new vulnerability review forum, with associated processes and Terms of Reference to enable key decision-making.
  • Support the development, implementation, and ongoing refinement of tactical Vulnerability Management processes.
  • Coordinate on-site testing of potential products, including liaising with prospective suppliers and internal resources, test design and set-up, scoring criteria, and evaluation of results.
  • Support in the production of procurement documentation and coordinate subsequent review of responses with the evaluation panel.
  • Work with external suppliers and internal technical experts and stakeholders to facilitate the development of solution architecture spanning multiple locations and associated deployment plans.
  • Gather, analyse, define, classify, and prioritise functional, non-functional, and technical requirements and translate into delivery stories.
    • Communicate, translate, and simplify business requirements to ensure buy-in from all stakeholders.
    • Impact assesses any change proposals to baselined requirements providing recommendations to programme change control governance.
    • Work with the Technical Analyst and Development team to ensure that they understand the specifications.
    • Work with training team to document system scenarios and identify roles impacted to help develop a change management/training plan.
    • Conduct business process modelling and generate applicable scenarios for the technology functionality testing team.
    • Perform basic consulting activities (information gathering, analysis, problem resolution and presentation) in accordance with assignment objectives.
    • Facilitate or Chair meetings with internal and external stakeholders representing the position of the organisation/department/project/service. Facilitate views and opinions of senior staff, peers and representatives from external organisations and produce supporting meeting documentation.
    • Present data in various forms to suit the audience, using graphical and other techniques to large groups to portray the required information, offering supporting narrative as necessary.
    • Identify and report on risks, issues and dependencies
    • Provide business analysis support to non-business analysis resource undertaking analytical tasks.
    • Perform the role of Client Lead on workstreams, typically project managed by Information Technology.

Knowledge and experience required:

  • Business Analysis: Expertise with the appropriate application of Business Analysis techniques, methods, and tools.
  • Business Modelling: In-depth knowledge of business modelling techniques, experience in eliciting input from stakeholders and subject matter experts and excellent communication skills to share models with senior managers.
  • Data Modelling: Experience of establishing and maintaining a data structure using data analysis and data modelling techniques.
  • Requirements and Specifications: Experience in reviewing requirements and specifications, defining test conditions, designing and creating test scripts, mapping back to pre-determined criteria, and recording and reporting outcomes.
  • Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills to create unambiguous project artifacts.
  • Stakeholder Relationship Management / Consultancy: Experience in using established consulting activities and techniques, including facilitating stakeholder groups for eliciting stakeholder requirements.
  • Methodologies: Working knowledge of Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

Desirable:

  • Previous experience with Vulnerability Management solution or Intrusion Detection System (IDS) implementation.
  • Knowledge of Operational Technology.
  • Previous experience developing governance forums.
  • Knowledge of cybersecurity regulations (NIS Regulations) and frameworks, e.g., ISA/IEC 62443 or NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF)

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV.Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly. Pontoon is an employment consultancy and operates as an equal opportunities employer.

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