Lead Application Security Engineer

Lead Application Security Engineer

We are a specialized technology staffing agency supporting professional and financial services companies. Why do we stand out in technology staffing? We listen and act as advisors for our candidates on how they can best add value, find interesting projects, and pave a path for career advancement. We advocate for best pay, diversity in tech, and best job-fit for every candidate we place. Our client, a leading financial services firm, is seeking a Lead Application Security Engineer to join their team in New York, NY!

Responsibilities:

• Perform threat modeling on applications to determine associated risks and appropriate controls.
• Understand implementation nuances and associated risk-related findings.
• Understand application threat models and control standards to ensure secure application design.
• Validate secure design and adoption of required security controls.
• Define and implement security tools like SAST, SCA, and Secret Scanning.
• Operationalize the adoption and usage of such tools.
• Ensure developers and others understand secure coding and application delivery practices and expectations.
• Build out a security champion culture amongst the development teams.
• Support application penetration testing through program development and testing execution.
• Engage in secure code reviews and overall application security assessments.
• Establish and enforce governance frameworks to ensure compliance with industry regulations and standards.
• Monitor and report on compliance with security policies and procedures.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of hands-on professional experience in an Application Security focused role with a background in software development (IDE/CLI).
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology/Security or a related field.
• Experience in working with software development teams, providing security oversight in complex application ecosystems.
• Proven expertise in IDEs, version control systems, CI/CD pipeline management, SDLC maturity, SaaS security tools (SCA, SAST & DAST) and application inventory management.
• Experience with Snyk and GitHub are a plus.
• Strong background in application architecture, security controls, cloud and penetration testing.
• Excellent collaboration, critical thinking skills and the ability to work in a dynamic environment.
• Familiarity with industry security standards and frameworks such as OWASP, NIST, ISO 27001 or MITRE Telecommunication&CK and testing tools like Burp Suite.
• Familiarity with the regulatory environment of the financial services industry or a similarly regulated industry and its impact on application security is a plus.
• Commitment to staying informed on security trends and threats, using this knowledge to enhance security measures.
• U.S. Citizen, operate in the Eastern Time Zone and able to report to the NYC metro area office(s).
• Professional Certifications, such as CISSP, CSSLP, CASE, GWEB, CSSLP, MCSA/MCSE are a plus.