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Application Security Capability Leads should possess strong experience in application security and actively contribute to the development and maturity of the application security practice. This includes hands-on expertise across application security domains, supporting practice growth, enabling go-to-market initiatives, and contributing to thought leadership and best practices within the practice.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Practice Development:
· Develop and execute strategic plans for the application security practice
· Develop/enhance service capabilities in the areas of application security including application security assessments, threat modelling, vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, and code reviews to identify and mitigate potential security issues.
· Develop service offerings, pricing strategies, and sales collateral
- Oversee security assessments programs (DAST/SAST/SCA) and application security audits
- Collaborate with sales teams, pre-sales teams and other internal and external stakeholders to proactively position application security services to customers.
- Establish solution/service center of excellence (CoE) through collaboration with vendors and partners including startups
- Stay updated on the latest security threats, trends, and technologies to provide advisory to customers.
2. Delivery and Operations:
- Govern application security delivery
- Manage application security CoEs to
- Stay up-to-date with emerging threats, technologies, and application exploit techniques
3. Go-to-Market:
- Collaborate with sales teams to develop and execute go-to-market strategies
- Develop and deliver thought leadership content (e.g., blog posts, white papers, webinars, conference talks)
- Build relationships with key clients, partners, and industry influencers
4. Leadership:
- Lead and mentor a team of security professionals, including managers and individual contributors
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning
Qualifications & Experience:
- 15+ years of experience in application security, with 8+ years in leadership roles
- Proven track record of building and managing successful security practices
- Strong knowledge of penetration testing, red teaming, purple teaming, breach attack simulation, and ethical hacking
- Experience with practice development, go-to-market strategies, and sales enablement
- Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Industry-recognized security certifications (e.g., OSCP, CEH, CISSP, CISA, CISM)
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Skills Required
- 15+ years of experience in application security
- 8+ years in leadership or practice management roles
- Experience with DAST, SAST, SCA and overseeing security assessment programs
- Experience in threat modeling, vulnerability scanning, code reviews, and penetration testing
- Experience with red teaming, purple teaming, breach and attack simulation, and ethical hacking
- Experience in practice development, go-to-market strategy, service offering and pricing development, and sales enablement
- Proven track record of building and managing successful security practices and CoEs
- Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills; ability to mentor teams
- Industry-recognized security certifications (OSCP, CEH, CISSP, CISA, CISM)
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