Director of Engineering - Application Security

The Role

As Director of Engineering - Application Security, you’ll combine deep engineering expertise with a passion for developing high-performing teams. Within an agile, cloud-first environment, you’ll set technical standards, influence strategic decisions, and deliver enterprise-scale application security solutions that keep our client's firm cybersafe. You’ll mentor engineers and analysts to design and implement secure, scalable systems that enable innovation while protecting customers. This is a fantastic opportunity to shape the future of secure engineering at scale.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Growth

• Define and drive team strategy, roadmap, and vision.

• Mentor and develop engineers and analysts, fostering technical growth and professional development.

• Manage workforce planning and performance goals aligned to business priorities.
  Delivery & Execution

• Excellent organization and planning skills with ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.

• Responsible for defining and owning roadmap and vision.

• Accountable for the delivery of the roadmap, clearly defining and articulating the evolutionary steps/milestones to achieve the overall vision.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure impactful, customer-focused outcomes.
  Engineering Excellence

• Drive Secure-SDLC adoption, including secrets management, SAST, SCA, and DAST where appropriate.

• Improve automation, test coverage, release velocity, and production health.

• Own and enforce technical standards, code reviews, and architectural guidance.
  Strategic Influence & Stakeholder Management

• Partner with leadership across engineering, business, and operations teams to align on security priorities.

• Lead data-driven decisions on trade-offs, capacity planning, and risk.

• Communicate clearly, deliver updates, rationales, blockers, and outcomes to peers and senior leaders.
  Continuous Improvement & Thought Leadership

• Stay ahead of emerging threats, tools, and frameworks.

• Promote a culture of continuous improvement through metrics, retrospectives, and education.
  Required Skills & Experience

• 12+ years in IT and 5+ years in people & technical leadership.

• Proven track record delivering scalable, cloud-native software with Secure-SDLC practices.

• Strong foundation in systems architecture, SDLC, Agile, AWS, and DevSecOps.

• Data-driven mindset, experience driving strategic decisions through analytics and metrics.

• Excellent communicator and influencer; skilled in stakeholder and cross-functional collaboration.

• Passion for coaching, able to elevate junior and senior team members alike.

• Practical experience setting strategic vision and delivering on roadmaps.

• Expertise in application security tools a plus e.g. secrets scanning, SAST, DAST, SCA.

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