Application Security Architect

Strive Solutions; Tempe (AZ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Strive Solutions is seeking a senior leader in application security to design, govern, and advance secure architectures for a finance and insurance client in Tempe, AZ. You will drive threat modeling, secure coding practices, and risk-aware decision making across engineering teams.

You will partner with risk, compliance, and DevOps to ensure regulatory alignment, lead remediation across cloud and on‑prem environments, and shape enterprise security strategy with hands-on technical leadership.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in application security and secure software practices.
• Ability to govern security standards and collaborate with engineering and risk/compliance stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain application security standards and reference architectures.
• Integrate security into the SDLC and DevOps pipelines.
• Perform threat modeling and secure code reviews.
• Lead remediation guidance across cloud and on-prem applications.
• Partner with engineering, risk, and compliance to ensure regulatory alignment.
• Influence enterprise security strategy through technical leadership.

Skills

Application security

Threat modeling

Secure software practices

Vulnerability assessment

Security standards governance

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

responsible for designing, implementing, and governing secure application architectures for a finance and insurance organization.

Key Duties

• Define and maintain application security standards and reference architectures.
• Integrate security into the SDLC and DevOps pipelines.
• Perform threat modeling and secure code reviews.
• Lead guidance and support for vulnerability remediation across cloud and on-prem applications.
• Partner with engineering, risk, and compliance to ensure regulatory alignment and strong client data protection.
• Influence enterprise application security strategy through technical leadership.

Qualifications & skills:

strong expertise in application security, secure software practices, threat modeling, and vulnerability assessment/remediation, with the ability to govern security standards and collaborate across engineering and risk/compliance stakeholders.