Senior Analyst, Risk Analytics

Sony • Reston, VA

19h • Onsite

About The Position

Sony Corporation of America is seeking a Senior Analyst, Risk Analytics to join Sony’s Corporate Information Security Division. In this role, you’ll partner across the global information security, IT, and business landscape to design, implement, and evolve a data-driven Global Information Security Risk Analytics platform. You will help transform diverse and complex datasets into objective, actionable insights that support senior leadership decision-making and monitor the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Sony assets. You’ll work closely with technical and non-technical teams to understand operational challenges, uncover meaningful data patterns, build analytical and engineering solutions, and translate results into intuitive, compelling stories. This is a hands-on role that blends data engineering, data analysis, and stakeholder engagement to mature Sony’s enterprise-wide security risk intelligence capabilities.

Requirements

• Advanced understanding of statistics, data analysis, and data visualization.
• Working knowledge of common information security and IT concepts, such as vulnerability management, patching, endpoint security, cloud security, identity and access management, asset inventory, logging/monitoring, or risk management.
• Ability to analyze large and complex security, IT, and business datasets to identify trends, anomalies, data quality issues, and emerging risks.
• Experience with data modeling (star/snowflake schema, dimensional modeling).
• Proficiency with relational database (SQL) and programming/scripting (Python or R).
• Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience in information security, IT, data analysis, statistics, or related field.
• Strong problem‑solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to thrive in a dynamic environment.
• Interest in both deep technical data exploration and high‑quality stakeholder engagement.
• Ability to translate business questions into analytical approaches and present insights clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Understanding of data quality frameworks (validation, profiling, anomaly detection).

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Statistics, Data Analysis, or a mathematics/information security field.
• Hands-on experience with cybersecurity or IT data sources, such as vulnerability scanners, endpoint detection tools, CMDBs, cloud platforms, identity systems, SIEM/logging platforms, or ticketing systems.
• Experience with version control tools (e.g., Git/GitHub/Gitlab)
• Hands-on experience with data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Domo).

Responsibilities

• Build, refine, and maintain ETL pipelines that integrate data from multiple sources while ensuring quality, consistency, and trustworthiness.
• Develop tools, scripts, and automation to streamline data processing, risk measurement, and platform operations.
• Develop and maintain analytics, metrics, and dashboards that measure information security performance, risk exposure, remediation progress, and control effectiveness.
• Analyze large volumes of security, IT, and business data to identify trends, anomalies, and emerging risks.
• Translate analytical findings into clear, compelling material for executives and operational stakeholders.
• Contribute to the design and evaluation of metrics, models, and dashboards used to monitor information security performance.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to understand requirements, frame analytical problems, and deliver actionable insights.
• Provide excellent stakeholder support, including communication, requirements definition, and delivery of reports and dashboards that meet evolving needs.
• Document solutions, workflows, and procedures to help ensure consistency, accuracy, and knowledge sharing.

Benefits

• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, ordinance, or regulation.
• Sony Corporation of America provides reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in job application procedures.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree