Senior Lead, Application Security Analyst

Northern Trust • Tempe, AZ

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Lead, Application Security Analyst provides senior technical expertise to help developers and technology teams understand, evaluate, and address Application Security findings. This hands-on role combines Application Security analysis, technical judgment, remediation guidance, false-positive evaluation, effective challenge, and developer partnership. The successful candidate helps resolve complex security questions while developing reusable guidance and mentoring other Application Security practitioners. The role focuses on making security information useful, defensible, and actionable to improve software and risk outcomes.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience in Application Security, product security, secure software engineering, DevSecOps security, penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, or a comparable application-focused security discipline.
• Experience analyzing application vulnerabilities, security findings, source code, software behavior, or related technical evidence.
• Experience working directly with software developers or engineering teams to explain security issues and support remediation decisions.
• Six or more years of relevant professional experience in Application Security, software security, product security, secure software engineering, security testing, or a related 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 current or future employment-based visa sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with static analysis, software-composition analysis, secret scanning, penetration-testing results, or comparable Application Security capabilities.
• Experience providing technical security guidance, false-positive analysis, finding validation, or effective challenge in an enterprise software-development environment.
• Experience mentoring security practitioners or developing reusable security guidance, standards, or analysis patterns.

Responsibilities

• Analyze complex Application Security findings and supporting technical evidence to determine security relevance and appropriate treatment.
• Help developers understand vulnerabilities and provide practical remediation guidance.
• Evaluate false-positive assertions, compensating conditions, and other technical explanations using evidence-based effective challenge.
• Validate remediation and support technically defensible finding closure.
• Serve as an escalation point for difficult Application Security questions.
• Mentor other practitioners and develop reusable technical guidance.

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