Lead Information Security Analyst

ADP is hiring a Lead Information Security Analyst

Are you ready to help us design the future-state to secure our Data? Well, this may be the role for you. Ready to make your mark?

Lead Information Security Analyst will be an integral member of the Global Zero Trust Security Portfolio Team within the Global Security Organization
. This role focuses on delivering advanced data protection services as part of the Security Service Edge team, with a core emphasis on enhancing network security analytics, reporting, and operations.

Responsibilities include ensuring the security of data across its entire lifecycle— from creation and storage to movement and eventual disposal—through advanced data protection practices, endpoint security, threat detection, and automation of security processes.

• Network Security & Automation: Lead efforts to enhance network security by automating and orchestrating processes across technology applications, backend databases, and security systems. Design and implement automation workflows to optimize data quality, reduce manual tasks, and mitigate operational risks.
• Data Analysis & Threat Detection: Use advanced analytical skills to sift through complex data sets, including web proxy logs, SIEM platforms, and other security data, to identify vulnerabilities and potential threats. Develop and apply structured queries/regex searches to detect and address risks.
• Data Protection & Policy Implementation: Implement and enforce data protection policies and controls to safeguard sensitive ADP client and company data throughout its lifecycle, ensuring compliance with security best practices and company standards.
• Reporting, Risk Management & Remediation: Create and maintain detailed security reports that drive risk‑reduction strategies. Own and manage the risk register, track remediation activities, and close identified security risks. Translate technical data into actionable insights for risk management and decision‑making.
• Security Training &
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Provide guidance and training for internal teams, including the Global Network team, on best practices for reducing excessive access, managing cloud app usage, and mitigating SaaS/Shadow IT sprawl. Collaborate with cross‑functional teams such as IT Architecture, Network Engineering, Identity & Access Management, Legal, and Data Privacy to strengthen the organization’s data security posture.
• Incident Response & Continuous Improvement: Lead or support security incident response, leveraging tools like SIEM for log review and monitoring. Ensure continuous improvement of security processes and controls by automating responses and optimizing workflows.
• CI/CD & ALM Integration: Drive security integration within development and deployment processes using CI/CD pipelines and ALM tools such as Jira, Git Lab, Azure Dev Ops, and Bitbucket to ensure security practices are embedded throughout the software lifecycle.
• Data Security Metrics & Reporting: Use Power BI to create and visualize security metrics and reporting, enabling the organization to track progress, measure the effectiveness of security controls, and make data‑driven decisions to enhance the overall security program.
• Operational Support: Provide ongoing day‑to‑day operational support, ensuring the smooth running of security processes, handling security incidents, and providing real‑time solutions to emerging security challenges.
• Data Analysis & Operations: Assess, support, review and analyze daily proxy reports and recommend ways to remediate network security related concerns. Analyze, parse, and create queries against proxy logs/web policies/associate network traffic data, perform root cause analysis of events, and create leadership reports/presentations to help identify risk remediation activities. Help improve future state reporting through applied automation workflows/scripting to reduce data quality issues, reduce manual operations, and enrich future state web proxy policy governance.
  
  Lead efforts to gather/define requirements to develop prevention and detection capabilities that support ADP’s data security policies. Support day‑to‑day operations and assist in formulating…