Microsoft's Detection and Response Team (DART) needs a Business Strategy Analyst to bridge technical execution with business objectives, manage their internal development backlog, and ensure efficient project prioritization, resourcing, and execution in a fast-paced environment to support cybersecurity incident response.
Requirements
- 3+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection.
- expertise with tools like Azure DevOps
Responsibilities
- Manage and prioritize the internal development backlog
- Maintain dashboards and metrics that provide transparency into backlog health, task assignments, and completion rates.
- Facilitate backlog grooming and sprint planning – Lead regular backlog refinement meetings to review and update work items, ensuring that priorities are correct and requirements are well-defined.
- Triage and address incoming requests – Quickly assess new tickets, change requests, or bug reports, and triage them based on urgency and impact.
- Identify and remove inefficiencies and blockers – Proactively pinpoint dependencies, risks, or obstacles that could hinder project progress.
- Collaborate across teams and functions – Serve as a central point of contact who connects developers, designers, product managers, and other stakeholders.
- Provide updates and reports to leadership – Monitor project status and prepare regular progress reports for team leads and senior management.
Other
- Embody our culture and values
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Liberal Arts, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience OR equivalent experience.
- Master's Degree in Business Administration or related field AND 3+ years marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Liberal Arts, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience OR equivalent experience.
- 2+ years experience in Strategy, Management Consulting, and/or Finance.
- Strong project management skills, an eye for process improvement
