Lead Data Analyst – Infrastructure Security

Role Value Proposition:

The Lead Data Analyst will use their data analytics expertise to deliver capabilities with MetLife’s Security Posture Analytics team by designing, building, and maintaining data flows and unique and creative analytics products. Our analytics and automation products directly support detection and remediation of security vulnerabilities and weaknesses.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with vulnerability management teams and other stakeholders to define new analysis and reporting requirements, and design solutions.
• Develop complex queries, reports, visualizations, and dashboards using vulnerability, weakness, configuration, and asset data aggregated from various sources.
• Supervise the maintenance of analytics products that provide the comprehensive view of security issues from all sources across all assets in order to aid in remediation prioritization, metrics tracking and reporting, vulnerability impact analysis, alerting, and incident support.
• Analyze vulnerability and asset data to provide actionable insights for driving more effective remediation strategies.
• Perform data engineering tasks as needed for acquiring data from external and internal sources of record, typically in Python.
• Troubleshoot and help resolve complex issues with data ingestion, queries, dashboards, and scripts.
• Support and provide guidance to other team members on their responsibilities.
• Lead or support additional projects as directed by cyber security management.

Essential Business Experience and Technical Skills:

Required:

• 4 or more years hands on experience in Data Analytics role(s)
• Experience gathering and documenting stakeholder requirements and designing creative analytic solutions. Able to work with stakeholders to refine ambiguous or incomplete requirements and suggest methodologies and components that the stakeholder did not specify, but will better answer their question, solve their problem, or tell their story.
• Background in analyzing, querying, and summarizing large data sets to derive insightful analytics and support data-driven decision making. Ability to acquire data and validate its quality.
• Experience providing support and guidance to teammates, particularly those less experienced
• Produce work that is high quality, user-friendly, and thoroughly unit tested. Detail-oriented and meticulous, and a creative thinker.
• Strong coding skills, particularly Python
• Strong Splunk front-end experience or someone who has the ability to learn Splunk very quickly (should be delivering analytics independently using Splunk within one month of joining)
• Strong Excel skills - formulas, pivot tables, etc (we don’t deliver analytics in Excel, but it can be helpful for analyzing data)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred:

• Proficiency with Red Hat Enterprise Linux server environments
• Familiarity with vulnerability management tools and processes
• Experience working in complex, diverse and global (international) environments
• Bachelor’s in related field

Benefits We Offer

Our U.S. benefits address holistic well-being with programs for physical and mental health, financial wellness, and support for families. We offer a comprehensive health plan that includes medical/prescription drug and vision, dental insurance, and no-cost short- and long-term disability. We also provide company-paid life insurance and legal services, a retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife and 401(k) with employer matching, group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto and home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance, as well as Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs, parental leave, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more!

About MetLife

Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2023 "World's Most Admired Companies" as well as the 2023 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For ®, MetLife, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world’s leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by empathy, we’re inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it’s #AllTogetherPossible. Join us!