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Senior Application Security Architect - Remote or Hybrid

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We’re a leader in data and AI. Through our software and services, we inspire customers around the world to transform data into intelligence - and questions into answers.

We’re also a debt-free multi-billion-dollar organization on our path to IPO-readiness. If you're looking for a dynamic, fulfilling career coupled with flexibility and world-class employee experience, you'll find it here.

About the job

As a Senior Application Security Architect within the Product Security Organization (PSO), you will be a key contributor to SAS solution security. Successful candidates will partner with architecture, engineering, and cloud hosting helping to solve complex technical problems anywhere in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) from design and development through to deployment and operations. Technical security breadth and depth as well as clear, concise and effective communications are key – this role requires a diverse set of skills in systems architecture, software development, and cyber-security. Success will depend on your collaborative skills working toward the SAS goal of meeting legal, compliance, and customer security requirements as part of providing SAS customers with the most trustworthy solutions globally.  

As a Senior Application Security Architect at SAS, you will:  

• Collaborate across R&D and cloud hosting teams to strategically improve the security posture of business-critical multi-tier solutions in legacy, hybrid cloud, and public cloud environments. Includes tactical refactoring, environment promotion, and Secure by Default deployment and configuration to maintain security consistency if not parity between all environments.  
• Collaborate in the planning of evolutionary paths for secure architectures and systems incorporating and aligning dependent third-party architectures as well as the adoption of new technologies while maintaining a robust and consistent security posture. Includes employing specific security compensating controls, defense in depth, and security posture aspects in support of Secure by Design, Secure by Default (deployment and configuration), and Zero Trust Architectural principles.   
• Work with development teams providing security assessment and hardening of products spanning the SDLC and development pipelines left/early-shifted wherever possible. Includes performing periodic secure design, threat modeling, code reviews, or direct verification to identify and triage issues assessing the security risk and recommending remediation steps for vulnerabilities and weaknesses.  
• Collaborate with Product Management stakeholders to ensure security implementations are consistent with business objectives, customer requirements, and applicable global regulations.  
• Identify, train, and partner with Security Champions in place with product R&D teams. Help champions assess and gauge risk to identify security gaps or seams in the products and integrated solutions.  
• Create and maintain secure engineering documentation, guidance, or training collateral supporting with PSO standards, policies, and procedures.   
• Collaborate with other teams within security to identify new tools and processes to integrate into the Secure SDLC. Recommend and promote software security policies, standards, and procedures that can improve the global SAS security posture. Mentor and coach within the Product Security Office and other Security Architects aligned with your security breadth and building depth via subject matter expertise.   

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of secure software development, secure system architecture and design, or related experience. 
• 4+ years of demonstratable experience in developing or adopting software security best practices. 
• Bachelor's degree with major study in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related.  Possess relevant security certifications such as from SANS, GIAC, or ISACA CEH, for CCSP, CSSLP, CISM, or CISSP. 
• An equivalent combination of related education, training, or experience may be considered in place of any of the above qualifications. 
• Knowledge of current Global Enterprise security risks and attacker TTPs as published by MITRE.  
• Experience with programming languages such as C/C++, Java, Python, JavaScript, PHP, Golang, etc. allowing you to review code or logic and be confident in giving prescriptive guidance to R&D and hosting/ops in security patterns and best practices.  
• Expertise in securing enterprise web applications and familiarity with OWASP Top 10, CVSS, CWE and SANS-25. 
• Experience with security best practices for modern R&D such as micro-services and containers, Agentic AI, hyper-scale cloud hosting and operations, etc.  
• You’re curious, passionate, authentic and accountable. These are our values and influence everything we do.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud hosting and operational security for public clouds (Azure, AWS, or GCP) and hybrids such as the domains and requirements in the Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark (MCSB).  
• Experience with SAST tools, such as: Snyk, Black Duck, Sonar, etc.  
• Experience with DAST/IAST tools, such as: ZAP, BurpSuite, Kali, Nessus, etc. 
• Knowledge of and experience with auditing, implementing, and supporting Dev(Sec)Ops. 

World-Class Benefits  

Highlights include...

• Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
• Medical plan options include...
  • PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
  • HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
• Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There's a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!
• An industry-leading 401k plan.
• Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
• Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
• Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.

Diverse and Inclusive

At SAS, it’s not about fitting into our culture – it’s about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our diverse workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers. Our commitment to diversity is a priority to our leadership, all the way up to the top; and it’s essential to who we are. To put it plainly: you are welcome here.

Additional Information:

To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Read more: Know Your Rights. 

Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.

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