Information Consultant Job Description
Information consultant
provides tools for personal and professional growth - always aiming to keep up with the industry's latest trends.
Information Consultant Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Review and critically appraise market research to identify new tools, technologies and frameworks that could improve security and data governance posture
Administer security and system access to the SBU servers by authorising and granting user’s access to relevant data basis
Keep backup procedures up to date when database changes occur by notifying the administrators of the server of all changes
Maintain regular backups of raw data and manage space requirements on the servers
Engage and consult with product managers and project analysts to assess, advice and implement new management information requirements
Understand the overall SBU context
Design, develop, test and implement new tables and databases to support MI requirements
Ensure data quality by implementing controls, exception reports, engaging with stakeholders and getting routine input from data suppliers
Network and interact with Group Information Services (GIS) on a monthly basis or when required to ensure that data requirements are met by SBU and GIS according to Service Level Agreement
Ensure that the information and data management standards comply with changes to regulatory, statutory and legislative requirements within the EU and UK
Information Consultant Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Information Consultant
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CISSP, CISA, CISM, ISO, ITIL, PCI, QSA, GIAC, SANS, PMP
Education for Information Consultant
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the information consultant job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Education, Information Technology, Engineering, Information Security, Technical, Technology, Business, Communications
Skills for Information Consultant
Desired skills for information consultant include:
Query tools and statistical software
Methodologies associated with the professional discipline
Practices
Principles
Theories
Industry's competitive landscape and the factors that differentiate SunTrust and its competitors in the market
Tools
Standard Business Information tools and programming/query languages
Range of software platforms
Processes
Desired experience for information consultant includes:
A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in business, computer science or related field and five to seven years progressive experience in a data processing position including a minimum of four years experience working with diverse security products
Own and enhance relationships with client stakeholders and program managers that define and demonstrate value in engagement with GIS Services that enable the business to operate within acceptable risk levels
SQL 2000, SQL 2005, SQL 2008
Three years’ experience in Database design and administration
Three years’ experience in Microsoft Office suite of Products
A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and ten to twelve years progressive experience in a data processing position including minimum of five years experience working with diverse security products
Information Consultant Examples
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Information Consultant Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of information consultant. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for information consultant
- Knowledgeable of Army enterprise network portfolio management process and Army governance boards and processes
- Map the Creative Operations Area processes using industry standards
- Clearly document the current functional requirements for Digital Production management systems, in a clear and concise language to improve the business understanding and to support either external software selection processes or internal systems development
- Maintain functional knowledge of SharePoint site maintenance and/or development
- Prepare reports of departmental operations as required by management
- Manage all site change control activities
- Provide regular updates to executive leadership with your line of business on the overall Information Security health and risk environment
- Support the CCM&I Divisional Information Security Manager in ensuring that CCM operates to the highest possible information security standards
- Provide support to the business to ensure the effective maintenance of information security
- Maintain industry awareness relating to relevant legislation, policy and best practice
Qualifications for information consultant
- Ability to synthesize ambiguous and complex information in a way that helps lead to substantive actionable outcomes
- Excellent communication skills including negotiating and the ability to deliver technical communications in customer focused terms
- Provide technical support for the USCG field sales organization, channel partners and their customers
- Exceptional interactive skills required (listening, clarifying, and objection handling)
- One year of experience providing data management services to clients on behalf of a global consulting company
- Have coding and scripting experience (Ruby and Python are a plus, but are not required)
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Information Consultant Job Description
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Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of information consultant. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for information consultant
- Participate in group innovation sessions where team objectively assesses its processes and techniques to look for ways to improve customer deliverables
- Advise sponsors and project implementation teams as they plan initiatives for the people-side of change for their processes
- Build and maintain strong working relationships with global privacy, procurement, internal assurance, and legal teams within BMC
- Develop extensive understanding of all facets of Card business while maintaining current with all developments and future strategies (business strategies, economics, models, marketing strategies)
- Identify sample materials required for RFP including standard reports supplied to plan sponsor, product brochures, ID cards
- Leading access reviews for security events
- Partnering with stakeholders to remediate or close incidents
- Ensuring compliance with regulatory and industry standards
- Coordinate with the Digital Production area key business stakeholders to understand key needs and pain points and to transform them into a high level Business Requirement list to be addressed from a Technical perspective
- Manage Large scale Production Systems implementation
Qualifications for information consultant
- Experience in working with databases such as MS Access and SQL server
- A bachelor's degree in information systems or equivalent work experience
- Information Security related certifications and/or education
- Define and implement Security Strategy and Roadmap
- Define, Implement and support information security policies and procedures across all business units
- Strong knowledge on UK Data Protection Act, European Data Protection directives and other privacy regulations and controls
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Our growing company is hiring for an information consultant. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for information consultant
- Act as a subject matter expert and provide guidance and direction on best practices for the protection of information inclusive of Application Security
- Perform pre and post acquisition assessments, develop formal reports and present risks to business partners and RISOs
- Train and guide junior team members to help them grow and provide constructive feedback to members and superiors
- Must have a strong technical background with prior hands-on experience a plus
- Conduct security risk assessments and application security assessments
- Develop and maintain the enterprise security awareness program
- The job description should contain a list of the duties and responsibilities associated with the role
- Descriptions of duties should be no more than two or three sentences in length and should be outcome-based, containing an action, an object and a purpose
- The list of duties and responsibilities will vary in length, but as a rule, should be as short as possible, otherwise the document becomes an operational manual rather than a job description
- Perform proactive surface, deep, and dark web research to identify and characterize new threats to the client base
Qualifications for information consultant
- Must have strong IT/Technical skills (understanding of software, hardware, networks)
- At least one (1) year of experience in delivering financial and management consulting services
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office suite, particularly Excel and Access
- At least 10 years experience performing risk assessments and secure network architecture
- At least 10 years experience with penetration testing and vulnerability management
- 5 years experience in securing the cloud
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Information Consultant Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking for an information consultant. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for information consultant
- Perform supplier security assessments in line with departmental procedures and processes
- Establish and maintain internal relationships with appropriate procurement and business unit organizations to ensure alignment of processes and activities
- Integration and development of compliance processes into solution and service to align and improve overall delivery
- Responsible for driving various work streams and timelines that will deliver a more accountable and effective framework for Information Security Strategy related processes
- Develop mitigation and countermeasure strategies from collected threat intelligence to guide client response to ongoing threats
- Develop innovative ways to leverage existing data and correlate Surveillance team data with other sets available in the CTU and SecureWorks at large
- Participating in IT annual budgeting & planning process for assigned business units & tracks IT spending
- Collaborating with customers & OIS staff in solving, coordinating & executing the resolution of customer order/support problems
- Reporting on activities, communications, performance monitoring & overall customer satisfaction status to OIS Leadership
- Managing long term JFS Business Group demands for technology solutions
Qualifications for information consultant
- 1 year experience working with start-ups
- Demonstrated knowledge of the IP protocol suite, specifically relating to TCP and UDP protocol behavior and interdependencies with the applications suite (DNS, SMTP, HTTP)
- Ability to work with little supervision and work with remote teams
- Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field and/or equivalent combination of education, certification, and experience
- Knowledge in software engineering languages, methodologies and tolls
- Experience can be substituted with having Bachelors or Master degree in Computer Science or a related field and two years of experience in the field of SOA and service-oriented computing
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Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of information consultant. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for information consultant
- Instil CDE Culture, Processes, Procedures, Governance as per the Amecfw Digital Delivery Template
- Plan and facilitate workshops to develop and analyze conceptual workflow models
- Document business requirements and develop business cases for technology solutions
- Translate technology needs identified in process and workflow analyses into requirements, use cases and/or service requirements needed by clients for RFPs or by design engineers
- Work with engineering and architecture units to evaluate and select appropriate technologies that meet business requirements
- Advise on process governance and maintain process repository
- Plan and manage process engineering projects
- Provide expert advice on process improvement, change management and project alignment with strategic plans
- Advise and create standards and criteria for improving the practice and outcomes of process engineering
- Knowledge of ISO9001 is essential
Qualifications for information consultant
- Bachelor's degree in a scientific discipline, Business Administration or related field
- Must be able to work in a fast-paced, changing environment, and with all levels of the organization
- Ability to understand and resolve multi-user issues and needs
- Ability to test and de-bug modules prior to implementation
- Ability to interpret and use appropriate People Soft admission, registration, advising and financial aid screens
- Proficiency in the use of PC and MAC computer hardware and software for both workstations and servers, Data Warehouse, XAP and CSU Mentor computer applications, People Soft and Cascade