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AVP, Cyber Application Security Architect

EXL

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United States
Full Time
Posted about 1 month ago

Principle Duties Developer enablement & secure coding support

  • Serve as the security architecture authority within the architecture organization, partnering with product architects, principal engineers, cloud partners (AWS, Azure, GCP), and business leaders to embed secure-by-design principles into hardware appliances, multi-tenant SaaS platforms, and globally distributed cloud infrastructure.
  • Coach and support developers in writing secure code, including secure patterns, common vulnerability classes, and secure use of frameworks and libraries.
  • Provide timely consulting on “how to do it right” (architecture, implementation details, and operational considerations) and help teams choose secure-by-default approaches.
  • Triage findings from SAST, SCA, DAST, container and IaC scanning; investigate, validate, and resolve false positives; and help teams prioritize true risk.
  • Partner with teams to tune security tools, reduce noise, and improve signal quality (rules, suppressions, baselines, and exception processes) while maintaining strong security posture.
  • Drive adoption of CNAPP, CWPP, WAF, service mesh security, API gateways, SIEM/SOAR, and cloud-native telemetry for protective monitoring, runtime defense, and incident-ready detection.

Secure by Design reviews

  • Conduct Secure by Design reviews for new applications and material changes to existing applications, validating security requirements and design decisions early.
  • Lead and facilitate threat modeling workshops; identify abuse cases, trust boundaries, and attack paths; and document mitigations and residual risk.
  • Review authentication/authorization design, data flows, secrets handling, logging/monitoring, and resiliency controls to ensure secure architectures.
  • Provide clear, actionable recommendations and track follow-through with engineering teams.
  • Translate regulatory and compliance requirements (FedRAMP, SOC2, ISO 27001, NIST SP 800-53, CSA CCM, SOX) into actionable, measurable, and auditable security architecture control objectives—shifting from audit-driven to architecture-driven alignment.

CI/CD and SDLC security

  • Advise on the security of CI/CD practices pipeline hardening, least privilege, artifact integrity, signing, provenance, and secure deployment patterns.
  • Advise on secure use of third-party dependencies and supply chain controls, including SCA governance and patch/vulnerability management workflows.
  • Collaborate with platform/tooling teams to integrate security controls into developer workflows with a focus on automation and self-service.

AI/ML security guidance

  • Provide security architecture guidance for AI/ML and GenAI-enabled applications, including model/data risk, prompt/agent design considerations, and safe integration patterns.
  • Help teams implement appropriate controls for data protection, access control, monitoring, and abuse prevention in AI/ML features.

Collaboration & communication

  • Act as a trusted partner to product, engineering, and leadership—translating security requirements into developer-friendly guidance.
  • Create and maintain secure coding guidance, reference architectures, and reusable patterns.
  • Support incident learnings by contributing to root cause analysis and preventative design improvements.

Originally posted on Himalayas

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