About this role
Cyber Security Resiliency Senior Technical Analyst
Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.
Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering—for each other, for our customers, and ultimately for the people who rely on the services we support. Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:
Why Syneos Health
- We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
- We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life.
- We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress.
Job Responsibilities
JOB SUMMARY
The Cyber Security Resiliency Senior Technical Analyst operates as a senior individual contributor and analytical leader within the Cyber Resiliency team. This role independently leads complex analytical domains, establishes analytical standards, and translates ambiguous security data into actionable, program‑level insights. The Senior Analyst is accountable for the quality, consistency, and effectiveness of resiliency analytics and serves as a trusted technical advisor to security engineering, architecture, and operational teams.
This position leads complex analytical workstreams, contributes to program maturity, and advances the organization’s ability to detect, quantify, and remediate systemic security risks.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
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Support the cyber resiliency program:
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Lead complex analytical workstreams supporting the Cyber Resiliency and Exposure Management program, independently defining analytical approaches, assumptions, and success criteria.
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Develop, refine, and govern KPIs, exposure metrics, and performance insights derived from large‑scale security data to ensure consistency, accuracy, and relevance.
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Conduct advanced and independent analysis of vulnerability, configuration, and telemetry datasets to identify systemic risks, resilience gaps, and emerging trends.
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Correlate threat, vulnerability, and exploit intelligence to produce prioritized, data‑driven remediation recommendations and clear risk narratives for stakeholders.
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Contribute to the evolution and maturation of resiliency program requirements aligned with NIST CSF, HITRUST, CIS Controls, and CCM frameworks.
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Partner with operational teams to:
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Identify and assess gaps in technology coverage, scanning, or telemetry collection across enterprise systems, cloud environments, and middleware, serving as an escalation point for complex findings.
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Translate complex analytical insights into actionable technical and process improvements, influencing outcomes through cross‑team collaboration and data‑driven recommendations.
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Educate and drive engagement of security engineering and operational teams to:
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Lead in‑depth resiliency and exposure reviews to evaluate readiness against common attack vectors, validate risk severity, and propose targeted, measurable improvements.
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Partners with architects, engineers, and operations teams to define, validate, enhance, and standardize resiliency metrics, ensuring alignment with program objectives and analytical best practices.
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Provide technical guidance and informal mentorship to Technical Analysts, reviewing analytical outputs and promoting consistent analytical standards across the team.
QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS (please indicate if ‘preferred’)
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Cyber Security
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4–7 years of experience in cybersecurity operations, vulnerability management, or cyber risk analysis.
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1 year of experience performing data analytics with visualization tools, e.g., PowerBI
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Strong familiarity with security frameworks, such as NIST CSF, HITRUST, AND CCM
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Understanding of CVSS, EPSS, KEV, and other prioritization or threat correlation methods.
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Strong analytical skills and ability to interpret and present complex data.
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Effective communication and collaboration with technical and non-technical audiences.
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Demonstrated experience independently leading complex cybersecurity analyses and influencing technical stakeholders using data‑driven insights.
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Strong understanding of Exposure Management, Vulnerability Management, or Risk Assessments.
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High-level understanding of AWS, Azure, OCI
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Mitre attack framework
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Data Analytics
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Threat Modeling
Education
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Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or related field preferred or 5 years of experience as a security engineer or 7 as an enterprise security architect.
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Vendor IAM certifications for enterprise solutions
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Cloud Certification for OCI, AWS or Azure (Azure preferred)
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Competencies
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Analytical & Critical Thinking
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Data-Driven Risk Awareness
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Cyber Resilience Insight
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Collaboration & Communication
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Process & Continuous Improvement Discipline
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Get to know Syneos Health
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Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.
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No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.
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Additional Information
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Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.