Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. The below Client runs through fifteen executive departments which carry out the day-to-day administration of the federal government. Popular departments like Agriculture and Rural Development, Civil Rights, Environment, Health and Human Services, Natural Resources, Secretary of State. This Client has opportunities in a number of career pathways, including, but not limited to, business and administrative support, education and human services, IT and computers, medical and healthcare, natural resources, law enforcement and public safety, skilled trades and more. With positions in over 18 state departments, your perfect career fit is waiting for you at the client. This client is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Job Title: System Analyst VI
Location: Lansing, MI 48933
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Hybrid
Work Type: Temporary Assignment
Shift: 8.00AM - 5.00 PM
Job Description:
- The Security & Compliance Analyst supports the integrity, security, and compliance of systems and processes used in administering retirement benefits for public sector employees.
- This role ensures that technology solutions, operational practices, and policy implementations adhere to state regulations, security standards, and organizational governance requirements.
- The analyst will collaborate with cross-departmental teams to strengthen security controls, improve business processes, and ensure consistent delivery of secure and reliable services to stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
- Analyze, document, and validate security processes, system requirements, and interagency interactions supporting retirement benefits administration.
- Collaborate with program offices, technical teams, and subject matter experts to define and refine security and compliance requirements for system enhancements, policy updates, and new state initiatives.
- Create and maintain clear, audit-ready documentation, including security requirements, user stories, workflows, and use cases aligned with public sector standards and oversight expectations.
- Support solution design and participate in testing phases (e.g., UAT) to verify that security controls and compliance requirements are properly implemented.
- Recommend improvements that strengthen security posture, improve process efficiency, and support program accountability and service quality.
- Monitor project deliverables, timelines, and milestones to ensure alignment with organizational security objectives, state compliance mandates, and governance frameworks.
- Assist in developing training materials and delivering security and compliance education to program staff and stakeholders.
- Conduct gap analyses and assess impacts of legislative, regulatory, or policy changes on business operations and system security.
- Perform data analysis and generate reports to support compliance monitoring, performance evaluation, risk tracking, and data-driven decision-making across the organization.
Leadership & Collaboration Responsibilities:
- Provide guidance and informal leadership to cross-functional teams by promoting best practices in security, compliance, and risk management.
- Lead discussions with program offices, technology partners, and stakeholders to ensure alignment on security objectives, policy interpretations, and compliance expectations.
- Serve as a mentor to analysts by offering support in interpreting security frameworks, documenting requirements, and navigating governance processes.
- Champion a culture of security awareness and continuous improvement by fostering collaboration, communicating risks clearly, and influencing adoption of secure and compliant operational behaviors.
- Take ownership of key security and compliance initiatives, driving progress, managing expectations, and ensuring deliverables meet organizational standards and regulatory requirements.
- Provide leadership during security incidents, compliance issues, and audit activities by coordinating responses, ensuring timely communication, and supporting decision-making with clear, accurate analysis.
Security & Compliance Support:
- Perform tasks in support of internal and external security and standards reviews.
- Conduct security risk assessments and recommend mitigation strategies.
- Assist with development and maintenance of security documentation, including System Security Plans, Assessment Reports, and Authorization packages.
- Support security audits by gathering documentation and demonstrating control effectiveness.
- Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Planning
- Collaborate with business units to develop and maintain Business Continuity Plans (BCPs).
- Conduct business impact assessments and ensure DRP/BCP strategies align with operational needs.
- Participate in tabletop exercises and simulations to test and validate plans, documenting and addressing gaps.
- Ensure DRP/BCP efforts comply with client policies, NIST, FISMA, and other applicable standards.
Vulnerability Management:
- Coordinate and schedule system, application, and network vulnerability scans in collaboration with infrastructure and security teams.
- Analyze scan results, prioritize risks, and support mitigation planning.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Seven years of professional experience in security, compliance, risk management, or a closely related discipline within a government agency, public retirement system, or regulated financial environment.
- Demonstrated experience developing, documenting, and evaluating security controls, compliance requirements, and governance processes.
- Experience supporting security or compliance assessments, audit activities, policy reviews, and control validations.
- Working knowledge of security and compliance frameworks relevant to public sector environments, such as NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, and state IT security standards. 5+ years of experience
- Experience participating in system or process changes with a focus on ensuring data protection, access controls, regulatory adherence, and secure implementation.
- Knowledge of Agile SDLC practices with an emphasis on integrating security and compliance into requirements, testing, and release processes.
- Ability to assess common vulnerabilities such as XSS, CSRF, SQL Injection, and authentication weaknesses.
- Proficiency in tools used to support security documentation, compliance tracking, and workflow management (e.g., Azure DevOps, GRC platforms). 5+ years of experience
- Contribute to development, documentation, and testing of Disaster Recovery Plans (DRPs) for critical systems.
- Assist in defining recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs).
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in information security, cybersecurity, information systems, public administration, or a related field; or equivalent experience.
- Experience supporting security and compliance needs within public pension or retirement administration programs.
- Working knowledge of security capabilities and data protection requirements within pension administration platforms or enterprise benefits systems.
- Experience using SQL or analytics tools (Power BI, advanced Excel) to support compliance monitoring, security metrics, reporting, and data validation.
- Professional security or compliance certifications such as CGRC, CAP, Security+, CISA, or similar.
- Knowledge of state and federal regulations governing data security, privacy, and compliance within public sector retirement systems (IRS, SSA, state statutes, audit standards).
- Familiarity with Java or the .NET framework.
- High-level understanding of how web applications function.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Lansing, MI |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $62.22 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
- (XSS) Cross Site Scriptingunmatched
- Acceptance Testingunmatched
- Access Controlunmatched
- Administrative Skillsunmatched
- Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
- Agricultureunmatched
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Authenticationunmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Business Continuity Planning (BCP)unmatched
- Business Developmentunmatched
- Business Operationsunmatched
- Business impact analysis (BIA)unmatched
- CISA - Certified Information Systems Auditorunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- CompTIA Security+unmatched
- Compensation and Benefitsunmatched
- Computer Securityunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Data Analysisunmatched
- Data Qualityunmatched
- Decision Supportunmatched
- Department of Health and Human Servicesunmatched
- DevOpsunmatched
- Disaster Recoveryunmatched
- Diversityunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Environmental Healthunmatched
- Establish Prioritiesunmatched
- FISMA - Federal Information Security Management Actunmatched
- Federal Governmentunmatched
- Federal Laws and Regulationsunmatched
- Gap Analysisunmatched
- Governmentunmatched
- Healthcareunmatched
- Information Systems/Technology IS/IT Administrationunmatched
- Information/Data Security (InfoSec)unmatched
- Injectionsunmatched
- Internet Applicationunmatched
- Internet Securityunmatched
- Javaunmatched
- Law Enforcementunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Maintain Complianceunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Metricsunmatched
- Microsoft .NETunmatched
- Microsoft Windows Azureunmatched
- Natural Resourcesunmatched
- Network Securityunmatched
- Operational Strategyunmatched
- Operations Security (OPSEC)unmatched
- People Managementunmatched
- Performance Analysisunmatched
- Performance Reviewsunmatched
- Policy Implementationunmatched
- Power BIunmatched
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- Public Administrationunmatched
- Public Safetyunmatched
- Quality Assurance Methodologyunmatched
- Realtime Operating Systemunmatched
- Regulationsunmatched
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- Reporting Skillsunmatched
- Retirement Planunmatched
- Retirement and Pension Managementunmatched
- Riskunmatched
- Risk Analysisunmatched
- Risk Managementunmatched
- Rural Developmentunmatched
- SQL (Structured Query Language)unmatched
- Security Analysisunmatched
- Security Auditingunmatched
- Security Monitoringunmatched
- Security Policyunmatched
- Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)unmatched
- State Laws and Regulationsunmatched
- Support Documentationunmatched
- Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
- Systems Analysisunmatched
- Test Plan/Scheduleunmatched
- Testingunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
- U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)unmatched
- Use Casesunmatched
- Vulnerability Scannersunmatched
- Workforce Managementunmatched
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