Senior Business Systems Consultant - MN, AZ, NC

Senior Business Systems Consultant

We are seeking a Business Systems Consultant to support a cybersecurity-focused team responsible for application governance, security compliance activities, testing coordination, and stakeholder engagement. This role serves as a key liaison between security engineers, application owners, compliance organizations, testing teams, and third-party vendors to ensure security requirements, policy obligations, and remediation activities are properly managed and completed. This is not a hands-on development or engineering role; the ideal candidate will combine project leadership, business analysis, stakeholder management, and technical aptitude to drive initiatives forward in a complex environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate security, compliance, and governance-related initiatives across multiple applications and stakeholders.
• Drive projects from initiation through completion, ensuring milestones, deliverables, and deadlines are met.
• Partner with security engineers, application owners, compliance teams, and third-party vendors to support security and compliance objectives.
• Coordinate security testing activities and track participation, findings, and remediation efforts.
• Monitor policy, standards, and compliance requirements to ensure applications remain aligned with expectations.
• Review and track security findings to ensure appropriate ownership, prioritization, and resolution.
• Analyze issues, identify risks and gaps, and escalate concerns when necessary.
• Facilitate discussions across technical and non-technical teams to drive decisions and resolve conflicts.
• Develop and maintain reporting, metrics, presentations, and status updates for leadership and stakeholders.
• Manage multiple workstreams simultaneously while maintaining clear communication and visibility into progress.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of Information Technology experience in support of Business Services, or equivalent demonstrated through work or consulting experience, training, military experience, or education.
• Experience leading cross-functional technology, governance, compliance, or business systems initiatives.
• Strong project coordination and organizational skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated leadership and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with Jira, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within Information Security, Cybersecurity, Application Security, or Technology Risk environments.
• Familiarity with security testing, penetration testing, vulnerability management, or remediation processes.
• Understanding of application governance and security policy management.
• Experience supporting third-party vendors or externally managed applications.
• Knowledge of APIs and reporting solutions.
• Experience working in large enterprise environments.
• Familiarity with Confluence.