Job DescriptionThe Impact you will have in this role:As a member of the CISO organization, this role provides strategic leadership for application security governance across DTCC's container platforms by unifying container security and vulnerability management into a cohesive, risk-driven control framework. The leader owns the design, delivery, and continuous improvement of platform-native AppSec controls-spanning build, deployment, and runtime-ensuring security is embedded through automation, policy-as-code, and standardized guardrails. By partnering closely with Cloud, Platform, and Application teams, this role enables secure scaling of containerized workloads while reducing material risk, improving vulnerability signal quality, and ensuring controls are audit-ready, measurable, and aligned to DTCC's regulatory and risk management expectations.
Your Primary Responsibilities: - Lead SCA, SAST, and DAST programmes to provide scalable application security coverage across DTCC.
- Manage application security risk by driving vulnerability identification, prioritisation, remediation, and escalation.
- Partner with engineering teams to improve security outcomes and reduce application risk.
- Own AppSec platforms and services ensuring reliability, optimisation, adoption, and effective integration.
- Establish security standards and governance for secure development and testing practices.
- Drive programme maturity through metrics, reporting, automation, and continuous improvement.
- Advance detection capabilities by evaluating emerging technologies, tooling, and AI-driven security solutions.
- Maintain strong risk and control oversight through compliance with policies, standards, and regulatory expectations.
Qualifications: - Minimum of 8 years of related experience
- Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience
Talents Needed for Success: - Highlights the expected benefits of new actions and strategies to help others overcome fears of change.
- Fosters a culture where honesty and transparency are expected.
- Proactively seeks feedback from others on his/her own performance.
- Ensures that regular feedback is given in a constructive and behaviorally oriented manner.
- Supports an environment where individuals are respected for their contributions.
The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations.
About the TeamServes as a dedicated technology resource for advancing DTCC's business opportunities and providing industry thought leadership for leveraging new technology. The goal of this new department is to partner internally with IT, our business and regulatory divisions and externally with clients, regulators, and fintech vendors, to help build new platforms and business models to advance DTCC's mission to support the financial markets.
