About the company
APPROACH is a pure-play cyber security and privacy service provider.
We believe that everyone deserves digital peace-of-mind. This is our vision, our aspiration for a society where each and every one is reassured, where there is confidence and security in the digital world. Therefore, our role is to bring cyber serenity to society..
Job description
Your role
As a Functional & Security Analyst, you will integrate our Secure Software Development practice.
Together with our 20 experts, we develop, maintain, support and host Specialized Software. Our expertise is three-fold:
Proposing our expertise to clients’ development teams in terms of Secured Software Development Life Cycle (SSDLC).
Developing highly secure softwares based on customer’s requirments (e.g. itsme – authentication app) ;
Maintaining existing and developing new features in the frame of our HR-Global Mobility software (ATLAS) used by international customers like Danone, ExxonMobile, … ;
In this frame, we are looking for a Functional & Security Analyst with a strong interest in IT Security to join us in a varied function which combines software functional analysis and application security assessments.
No prior business experience or security acumen is required, only the desire to learn and develop new skills supported by great software development and IT security professionals!
As a Functional Analyst, you will:
Gather Business & Functional Requirements from our clients,
Conduct meetings and animate workshops with our customers.
Translate the business requirements & processes into functional needs,
Explain the functional design of our solutions to a business and/or technical audience,
Work with the architects and developers to define the most efficient solution to meet the business requirements,
Write change requests, convert them in User Stories and Tasks for development teams.
Find the right trade-off between efficiency, user-friendliness, and security is here the real challenge,
Document the proposed solution into clear business processes, use cases and functional specifications,
Assist the developers and consultants to implement the solution,
Actively participate in test phases on our products:
Document test plans, test cases and test reports.
Perform tests and support key users during User Acceptance Testing.
Provide support to our customers after Go-Live,
Follow-up the various phases of the project.
As a Security Analyst, you will:
Participate in big client’s security assessment (Ex: OWASP SAMM regarding the cyber security maturity level of their app’) and collaborate with development teams at client,
Help teams to take security into account in their functional analysis.
Prepare and organize security tests (i.e. unit testing, integration testing, end to end testing)
Participate in customers’ follow-ups in the implementation of a SSDLC approach and tools such as SAST, DAST (Sonarqube, Fortify, ...)
Your profile
Bachelor or Master degree with a transversal knowledge on the whole development lifecycle
Ideally a first experience in a similar function (Software Functional Analyst, IT Business Analyst, Product Owner, …)
Practical knowledge of
Software modeling for example with UML, BPMN, …
Software development tracking tools: Azure Devops, Jira
Project management: Agile, SCRUM
Process design experience.
Fluent in English and French (Dutch is a plus),
Analytical mindset with good abstraction capabilities and attention to detail,
True communicator with Business level communication skills:
To ask the right questions about business processes to come up with systems requirements
To conduct and animate workshops and meetings with clients
To explain the functional design of our product to a business audience, both technical and business levels.
Negotiation & prioritization skills,
Keen interest/curiosity in cyber security matters,
Thinking out-of-the-box mindset and from different perspectives.
Eager to learn,
Teamplayer.
Interested?
Don’t wait and send us your application to jobs@approach-cyber.com. We look forward to talking to you soon.
