Job Title: Senior IS Security Risk Analyst
Location: Columbia, SC (Partially onsite - Onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)
Duration: 12 Months
C2 Eligibility is required
Job Summary:
Duties/About the role:
- Develop strategies and approaches for business development proposals within a compliance and systems security context. Plan and perform compliance and systems security activities in alignment with contractual role. Communicate and escalate compliance and risk issues to the appropriate customer representative and/or level of management. Act as a change agent to influence I/S and corporate compliance culture in alignment with business constituency. Develop strong systems security customer business relationship. Provide expert level consultation regards contractual system security obligations, frameworks, control requirements.
- 20% Oversee remediation of new and outstanding issues, including Information Security Risk Exception process, across multiple business areas and security frameworks. Utilize tools to track and report on compliance posture.
- 20% Conduct or lead others in the procedural and operational review of internal IS security compliance standards. Oversee formal risk analysis and self-assessments to determine effectiveness of controls and ensure creation of action plans to remediate identified risks. Identify and champion efficiency improvements related to security, risk and compliance processes. Engage appropriate Client Management areas to facilitate process improvements through formal IS Methodology.
- 20% Lead the development, implementation and documentation of Information Security policies, procedures, processes and programs to guide IS toward continuous compliance. May conduct or lead others in the analysis and interpretation of security regulations and controls. Proactively provide strategic consulting to IS functional teams with the development, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of control processes, documentation and compliance routines for moderate to highly complex work efforts.
- 20% Serve as an interface with external entities for governance and compliance reviews regarding information security risk.
- 10% Conduct or lead others in the investigation, documentation and resolution of Information Security Incidents. Advises senior management of critical issues that may affect organization.
- 10% Research emerging security topics, threats and capabilities to create/update policy and governance. Engage appropriate leaders to evaluate and mitigate potential exposure. Promote organizational security awareness by developing security training, Security Council bulletins, security policies, standards and best practices, as well as delivering training to personnel
Day to Day:
- Management of risk management activities: Process, monitor, and report on security/compliance risk items.
- Perform Corporate Risk Assessment and communicate results to Senior Management.
- Conduct research and assessments on security related topics. (Policy, Third-Party, Security Processes)
- Develop and communicate security policies and security standards.
- Provide consultation and guidance to the different Business Units for security and compliance activities.
- Facilitate meetings and conduct presentations with various levels of management.
Team name:
- Strategic Security & Compliance Services
About The Team:
- SSCS Team is a small team, however we work with multiple Lines of Business (LOB) and teams across the company.
- Currently oversee multiple strategies: Enterprise Risk Management, Third Party Risk Management, Access Management, Application Security, and others.
- Support over 20 LOBs under the Client's umbrella.
- Manage Corporate Security Framework (Security Policies).
- Conduct risk assessments periodically and present results to senior management.
- Conduct research and analysis on security/compliance related topics.
- Part of the I/S Governance committee. Chair the Policy and I/S Standards Committee.
- Engaged in the yearly budget for Security and Compliance activities.
Job Requirements:
Required Experience:
- 8 years of I/T experience including 6 years of IT security, risk assessment and/or compliance experience. Successful completion of Client's I/S Entry Level Training Program (ELTP) may be substituted for 2 years of I/T experience.
Required EDU:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related degree. or 4 years of job related work experience or 2 years of job related experience plus an associate's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other job related degree.
Preferred Licenses and Certificates:
- ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
Required Software and Tools (Hands on experience required):
- Microsoft (M365): Outlook, Teams, Excel, Word, Lists, PowerPoint, SharePoint (Intermediate)
Required Skills and Abilities:
- Complete understanding of systems security business life cycle methodologies.
- Subject Matter Expert in both government and private risk frameworks and control implementations.
- Comprehensive understanding of business system security risk management, information system security and compliance practices.
- Demonstrate excellent analytical, problem solving, decision-making skills, interpersonal and ownership skills.
- Proven ability to interpret and apply knowledge of regulatory/accreditation requirements.
- Ability to lead others in solving problems often spanning multiple environments and business areas. Ability to effect change and bring security, risk and compliance knowledge to the organization through the use of positive influence.
- Understanding of infrastructure and networking architecture WANs, LANs, Internet, intranets and communication protocols.
- Excellent communication skills in presenting results to customer, senior management, and matrix staff both verbally and in writing.
- Demonstrated ability to develop metrics, perform critical analysis and develop executive decision support content.
- Possess excellent collaboration skills with a wide variety of internal matrix and management staff.
Nice to have/Preferred skills:
- Microsoft: Visio, Planner, Forms, PowerBI, Power Automate). RSA-Archer, Service Now (Intermediate)
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Spectraforce Technologies
Jul 22, 2025