Application Security Tech Lead

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide technical and delivery leadership for the Application Security DevSecOps Team spanning API DAST container security and emerging application security capabilities.

• Partner with individual domain leads (API DAST Container etc.) to balance priorities unblock work and ensure consistent collaboration and execution across the team.

• Support the manager through execution planning stakeholder communication and operational leadership; align weekly priorities with management and the team.

• Work hands-on across application security initiatives as needed contributing to tooling integrations workflows and problem-solving during highimpact efforts.

• Own team planning and execution including roadmap development identifying future scope aligning work to OKRs and ensuring commitments are met.

• Participate in on-call support and assist during security tooling incidents or threat events providing coordination leadership and technical guidance when needed.

• Collaborate closely with other Application Security teams platform teams and security and engineering partners to align tooling integrations and strategy across the broader AppSec ecosystem.

• Work closely with application security architects to influence bigpicture design technical direction and scalable architecture decisions.

• Remove blockers and support team members through technical guidance decision support and hands-on assistance to keep work moving forward.

• Lead and facilitate team operating rhythms including standups planning retrospectives crossteam syncs and other working sessions.

• Engage with vendor partners on roadmap discussions escalations evaluations and future capability planning.

• Stay current on application security best practices tooling trends and emerging risks proactively bringing recommendations to the team and leadership.

• Foster a collaborative inclusive and highperforming team culture through mentorship knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.

• Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree in a related field or equivalent combination of training and experience.

• Strong experience deploying and operating DAST API and/or Container Scanning tools to include managing team onboarding authentication setup and CI/CD integration.

• Experience with well-known application security tools (SAST SCA DAST etc.)

• Strong knowledge of application development build and deployment processes (development IDEs repositories branching pipelines cloud containers serverless etc.).

• Familiarity with industry standards such as NIST OWASP and MITRE.

• Relevant certifications in application development security application security DevSecOps or cloud are a plus.

Special Factors

Sponsorship

About Vanguard

At Vanguard we dont just have a missionwere on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning collaboration and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.