Business Analyst, Risk Quantifier

Summary

Join ThreatConnect's Cyber Risk Quantification product team as a Business Analyst! Work remotely to help major companies protect themselves against cyber threats. You'll act as a bridge between product management and engineering, uncovering and communicating software requirements to engineering teams. This role involves translating customer needs into functional requirements, collaborating with stakeholders, and ensuring business needs are met in the technical design and development. You'll be involved in backlog management, user story creation, and test case writing. The ideal candidate is passionate about technology, problem-solving, and contributing to impactful projects.

Requirements

• JIRA or other process-management tools
• Experience writing detailed technical requirements
• Demonstrated ability to translate user needs into technical solutions
• Experience in Agile software development methodologies
• Experience working on a multi-customer product
• Strong understanding of technical concepts and tools relevant to programming, databases, data structures, and SDLC
• Strong understanding of capital markets concepts, products, and terms
• 2+ years as a Business Analyst
• Experience creating designs for use in development
• Good written, verbal, and presentation skills in Romanian and English

Responsibilities

• Work closely with stakeholders, developers, and the product manager to ensure that the business requirements are understood and incorporated into the technical design and development
• Drive discussions with the Product Owner and/or business partners to understand the process and the problem, and then brainstorm solution scenarios
• Actively engage the Product Owner or business SME to translate solution needs into actionable user stories
• Facilitate and support product backlog management
• Partner with Product Owners/SMEs to define & refine acceptance criteria
• Create user stories and acceptance criteria and partner with developers on reviewing for understanding and scoring
• Negotiate with product owners/ business experts on alternative solutions
• Write test cases for user stories
• Create designs for use by the user experience team
• Analyze and interpret complex business requirements and translate them into a technical solution approach and implementation roadmap
• Gain a deep understanding of the most advanced security teams in the world - our users, and how they engage with our product
• Develop expertise in a wide range of industry-leading security software
• Solve tough technical challenges
• Work with a psychologically safe and values-driven team
• Get to know your immediate team and engineering counterparts and have 1-on-1s with some of your main stakeholders
• Get to know our product and our processes
• Ask lots and lots of questions!
• Start turning the needs our product managers have identified into workable and testable requirements
• Understand the needs of our users and function as a liaison to coordinate work efforts with teams across the firm to accomplish their initiatives
• Start proposing improvements to our processes
• Own the end-to-end requirements lifecycle
• See your requirements turned into software reality at some of the world’s largest companies
• Help us inform your own career development
• Be the nexus that both product and engineering rely on

Preferred Qualifications

• Passionate about cybersecurity and/or cybersecurity tools
• Experience as a Business Analyst in the cybersecurity space
• Understandment of cyber security tools such as SIEM, EDR, NDR, XDR, Vulnerability Management, Firewalls, IDPS, Ticketing, Identity Access Management products, Security Operations, Incident Response, and Threat Intelligence use cases and processes
• Experience working with teams in different time zones and different cultures

Benefits

Remote work, flexible hours