Application Security Architect

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Application Security Architect
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As an Application Security Architect within the Product Security Organization (PSO), you will be a key contributor to overall Product security. Successful candidates will partner within SAS helping to solve complex technical problems anywhere in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) from architecture and design to deployment and operations. Technical security breadth and depth as well as clear, concise and effective communications are key — this role requires a diverse set of skills in systems architecture, software development, and security.

Success will depend on your collaborative skills working toward the SAS goal of meeting legal, compliance, and customer security requirements as part of providing SAS customers with the most trustworthy solutions globally.

• Work in active partnership with development teams in identifying and building solutions to secure code and the implementation of application vulnerability scanning and penetration testing contributing documentation, developer guidance and training, and repositories with examples of best practices in secure architecture, design, and operational patterns.
• Perform risk based prioritized and periodic reviews of application architecture to identify security gaps and generally help improve the security posture of business-critical multi-tier applications in legacy, hybrid cloud, and public cloud environments.
• Work cross organizationally with engineering (security champions, architects, and developers) and operations to assist in the identification, risk assessment, and remediation of security issues, and Product Management to ensure security implementations are consistent with business objectives and customer requirements ensuring alignment to SAS security standards, policies, and procedures and other global regulatory requirements.
• Assist in the creation of dashboards and on-demand reporting of a product division’s security posture and make recommendations for improvements aligning to Secure by Default and Zero Trust principles.
• Identify, train, and partner with divisional Security Champions in place with product architecture and engineering teams. Help champions assess and gauge risk to identify security gaps or seams in the products and integrated solutions.
• Collaborate with other teams within security to identify new tools and processes to integrate into the Secure SDLC. Recommend and promote software security policies, standards, and procedures that can improve the global security posture of the company.
• Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization’s secure software development goals.

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• Bachelor’s degree with major study in technical disciplines such as Electrical Engineering or Computer Science.
• 5+ years of secure software development, secure system architecture and design, or related experience.
• Demonstrated knowledge in securing enterprise web applications and the supporting systems and services as detailed by OWASP Top 10 for Web, CVSS, CWE/CVE, etc. extending to the effective remediation of issues surfaced by relevant SAST and DAST scanners and tooling.
• Demonstrated ability to provide guidance to development and hosting/operational teams on the effective remediation of issues surfaced by relevant SAST and DAST scanners and tooling, reported by customers, or findings from internal/external offensive security testing or compliance audits.
• An equivalent combination of related education, training and…