Sharp Decisions is looking for a Senior Business Systems Analyst to help build a unified global platform for Security Operations. The role involves assessing existing capabilities across international business units and facilitating decision-making on whether to reuse tools or develop new solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Technical Brokerage: Facilitate high-stakes design sessions between BU architects and implementers to reach a consensus on a single, global recommended solution
- Requirements Synthesis: Translate diverse BU operational needs into a standardized set of modular requirements for the global platform
- Capability Assessment: Partner with SMEs to evaluate "in-flight" projects within BUs, determining if they can be elevated to global shared services
- Use Case Development: Define and document specific use cases for Security Operations (e.g., automated provisioning, global logging, security scanning, identity perimeters) that serve multiple business interests
- Roadmap Alignment: Work with BU leaders and SMEs to ensure the platform’s evolution aligns with both regional execution and global strategy
- Collaboration: Work with Product Management, DevOps, and other service teams to align technical plans with our goals
- Continuous Improvement: Gather feedback and success metrics of delivered functionality to identify enhancements for future releases. Track adoption and user satisfaction metrics
Requirements:
- Proven ability to lead a room of opinionated engineers and architects toward a unified technical direction
- Deep familiarity with technical platforms
- Experience in a global financial environment
- Mastery of requirements gathering, gap analysis, and the ability to turn technical discussions into structured, actionable platform definitions
- Experience working with security teams and understanding security capabilities like vulnerability management, compliance, and governance
- 5+ years of systems analyst experience
- Platform experience
- Analyst experience
- Security experience