Lead, Application Security Engineering

Northern Trust • Tempe, AZ

1d • $94,620 - $160,740

About The Position

The Lead, Application Security Engineering will engineer, run, and continuously improve the technical capabilities supporting Northern Trust’s Application Security program. This hands-on engineering role focuses on improving security platforms, integrations, automation, developer workflows, reliability, and technical service delivery. The role solves complex engineering problems and develops reusable technical patterns and automation to help Application Security capabilities scale. Prior Application Security experience is not required; strong enterprise engineering experience and the ability to improve complex technical capabilities across systems and teams are sought.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience engineering, integrating, or supporting complex enterprise software, platform, infrastructure, DevSecOps, security, or comparable technical capabilities.
• Experience building integrations or automation using APIs, scripting, workflow technologies, software development, or comparable engineering methods.
• Experience solving complex technical problems across CI/CD, source control, developer tooling, cloud services, enterprise platforms, or comparable software-delivery environments.
• Eight or more years of relevant professional experience in software engineering, platform engineering, DevSecOps, infrastructure engineering, security engineering, systems integration, or a related technical discipline.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

• Experience integrating security testing, security controls, or other technical services into software-delivery and developer workflows.
• Experience with enterprise platforms such as GitHub, Checkmarx, ServiceNow, cloud technologies, or comparable development, workflow, and security technologies.
• Experience improving technical capabilities through automation, observability, reliability engineering, or transition from manually intensive or vendor-supported delivery.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and improve Application Security platforms, integrations, automation, and technical workflows.
• Design and enhance integrations across source control, CI/CD, security, cloud, workflow, and enterprise technology platforms.
• Troubleshoot complex technical failures and improve capability reliability, observability, recovery, and scalability.
• Automate repeatable technical work as workflows become sufficiently understood, while developing reusable engineering patterns and technical documentation.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership and partner with engineering teams, technology partners, and vendors to improve Application Security delivery.

Benefits

• Retirement benefits, including 401(k) and pension.
• Health and welfare benefits, including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, and disability benefits.
• Paid time off.
• Parental and caregiver leave.
• Life and accident insurance.
• Other voluntary and well-being benefits.
• Discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior