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ISTARI · 3 days ago

Application Security Architect

United States

Contract

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

ISTARI is a strategic cybersecurity advisory company focused on building a resilient cybersecurity ecosystem. The Application Security Architect role involves providing strategic architecture and engineering support to integrate security into application development, ensuring secure design principles are embedded across the software development lifecycle.

Cloud SecurityConsultingCyber SecurityFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyInternet of ThingsRisk ManagementVenture Capital

Hiring Manager

Mariani Maihadani

Responsibilities

Provide application security architecture advisory for new application development, modernisation initiatives, and system integrations, ensuring security-by-design principles are embedded across the SDLC

Lead the execution and governance of the Secure Software Development Framework in collaboration with the client’s development partners and platform teams

Define, maintain, and govern application security blueprints, reference architectures, and design patterns for APIs, microservices, and cloud-native workloads

Establish and enforce API security standards, including authentication, authorisation, encryption, traffic inspection, and rate limiting

Oversee threat modelling, secure design reviews, and risk assessments for business-critical applications and third-party integrations

Drive secure coding practices by enabling developer awareness, training, and adoption of secure frameworks and standards

Oversee the SAST, DAST, and CI/CD security tooling strategy, ensuring effective integration into development pipelines and efficient management of findings and remediation workflows

Act as the strategic interface for Application Security-as-a-Service, partnering with third-party engineering teams providing day-to-day AppSec execution and tooling operations

Collaborate with cloud, network, and platform engineering teams to ensure applications are securely deployed within segmented, Zero Trust-aligned environments

Serve as the application security authority during security incidents, providing architectural guidance for containment, remediation, and post-incident improvements

Provide executive-level reporting on application security posture, including vulnerability trends, remediation progress, and residual risk

Qualification

Application Security ArchitectureSecure SDLC GovernanceCloud-native SecurityAPI Security StandardsSASTDAST ToolingRisk-based ReportingExecutive CommunicationThird-party Coordination