Senior Business Analyst

 Work with clients to formulate solutions, business processes, and governance for both internal and external facing digital services. Participate in client interactions, advise business leaders on program improvements, and assist team members to implement long-term client program goals. Review, draft, and brief clients on documentation including policy, privacy, requirements, technical/ architectural, and legislative. Provide subject matter expertise on new technology and vendors, industry trends, risks and security measures, and controls e.g. NIST 800-*.
Plan, evaluate, and report on project activities. Capture minutes, action items, and decisions from meetings. Work with stakeholders to ensure project is on task and aligning to program/enterprise objectives and operational constraints. Provide outstanding level of advisory and/or development services to meet and exceed all directives in performance work statement. Conduct risk assessments and mitigate risks and issues proactively.
Support organizational objectives through client delivery, thought leadership, and internal availability. Support repeatable processes and artifacts for use across Easy Dynamics teams. Use strong delivery track record to promote growth opportunities with existing and new potential clients. Engage with trade associations or other groups supporting Easy Dynamics mission. Support proposals for winning new work. Contribute to domain thought leadership across the industry in line with enterprise core competencies.
Responsibilities:
Work with a team of analysts to:

• Provide subject matter expertise on cybersecurity technology, vendors, risks, trends, best practices, and standards e.g. NIST 800-x, OMB policy, and agency-specific needs 
• Assess partnerships among different stakeholders and develop approaches to engagement with a range of groups analyzing priorities and aligning existing initiatives; and assess findings against client needs and requirements 
• Achieve operational objectives by leading information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; identifying trends; determining system improvements; implementing change. 
• Advise business leaders on program improvements; assist team to implement long-term client program goals though policy, privacy, requirements, technical/ architectural, legislative, and ad hoc deliverables.
• Enhance department and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments;
• Scheduling meetings, setting agendas, facilitating sessions to achieve specific objectives. Capturing minutes, action items, and decisions; managing the team Kanban board. 
• Providing updates internally within the team on latest activities and tasks. 
• Continually evaluating progress against roadmap, goals, and metrics and working with team and other stakeholders to ensure initiatives are on track. 
• Lead and support collaborative development of guidance documents and standards for the client organization by facilitating working groups
• Update job knowledge and domain thought leadership by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations; attending industry events; and writing white papers.
• Strong project management skills and ability to work independently, especially at project startup defining goals and metrics, and working with diverse stakeholders to enhance program value. 
• Daily-use qualifications include strong ability to:
• Plan strategically and track to plan.
• Track risks and implement mitigations. 
• Facilitate meetings, workshops, and other sessions to elicit and capture decisions.
• Write clearly for email, memos, and other deliverables. 
• Review and analyze legal, legislative, and technical documents. 

Qualifications:

• Must have at least 4 years of experience as a Business Analyst
• Demonstrated teamwork, working both internally to drive delivery on roadmap goals, and externally to evaluate and drive partnerships that advance program strategy. 
• Ability to travel to client locations within the DC metro area with the option to travel approx. 10% time to conferences and in-person sessions 
• Bachelor’s degree
• Preferred: Experience in the field of OT knowledge consulting, or implementation, as well as information security program management, and cyber programs within Sector Risk Management Agencies. 
• Preferred: Industry certifications including PMP, CISM, CISSP, AWS, Agile, etc.