Director, Application Security Engineering (Remote)

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The Team 

S&P Ratings Security team focuses on protecting our clients and users from all aspects of modern-day security threats. The mission of our team is to safeguard systems and data by developing innovative solutions for the biggest security challenges. We are looking for a Senior security engineer responsible for development and implementation of security architecture and engineering best practices across S&P Ratings technology platforms. This role will lead a team of security engineers and analysts to provide Security engineering and Security Architecture consultation to build and enhance security in S&P Ratings Applications and Services including GenAI applications. 

Responsibilities and Impact 

This position will work across software development, QA, SRE and Operations teams to identify component and system level technical risks, identify and evaluate critical failure points, determine technical security controls to mitigate risks, prioritize and schedule controls with application development timelines, and work with cross functional teams to implement remediations. 

This senior level position combines managerial and technical capabilities and will drive the Secure SDLC roadmap and Cloud security architecture, assist with maturing the security engineering program, develop security tooling, mentor others and be hands-on partner to our software, SRE and QA teams to deliver innovative and secure applications. 

A successful candidate for this position will provide technical leadership, and manage a team that:  

• Provides architectural guidance on best practices regarding security in software development, shared services, user interface design frameworks, high performance messaging solutions, server-side development, integrations, tools and technologies 
• Drives and guides the specification and realization of a security architecture, with decisions driven by balancing security risks faced by the business along with customer or market requirements 
• Develop, implement and maintain Application security and GenAI security strategy 
• Perform threat modeling, secure code reviews, and secure design reviews for high risk applications, evaluate new technology stacks and frameworks 
• Perform vulnerability research, serve as technical security/risk advisor for new technology/applications developed by S&P Ratings 
• Determine testing requirements and develop strategies to automate security testing using a variety of scripting and open source tools 
• Assist developers in remediating vulnerability findings by providing line-by-line guidance 
• Coaches development teams on security disciplines like Threat modeling, Security code reviews, provide training and education to developers on software security best practices 
• Maintain knowledge of current and emerging technologies / products / trends related to security architectural solutions 
• Develops repeatable application security patterns to …