Senior App Security Architect: AI, Cloud & APIs

Insight Global; Naperville (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global seeks a Senior Application Security Architect to lead security architecture across our client’s digital products. You will review full lifecycles, guide secure design, and drive remediation across web, mobile, APIs, and cloud platforms.

The role combines hands‑on engineering with strategic architectural leadership and mentorship for engineering teams. You will influence SSDLC standards, perform threat modeling, and validate security through code reviews, testing, and security

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT Technology, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, application security, product security, software engineering, cloud security, or related technology roles.
• 5+ years of hands‑on experience as an application security architect, senior application security engineer, product security architect, software architect, senior software engineer, or similar technical role.
• 4+ years of experience leading complex application security architecture reviews, threat modeling, secure design assessments, vulnerability assessments, penetration test coordination, or technical product security reviews.
• Hands‑on experience with SSDLC, DevSecOps, SAST, DAST, SCA, SBOM, API security, container security, secrets scanning, secure CI/CD pipeline controls, code review, and remediation workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex application and product security architecture reviews across the organization’s digital products.
• Provide architecture guidance for secure application design including authentication, API security, and secrets management.
• Perform threat modeling, security testing, and remediation validation across web, mobile, APIs, and cloud services.
• Embed security controls into CI/CD pipelines and product release processes through collaboration with engineering and DevSecOps teams.

Skills

Threat modeling

Security architecture leadership

Code review & security testing

Cloud security (Azure/AWS)

DevSecOps / SDLC

SAST/DAST/SCA

API security

Identity & access management (IAM)

Automation scripting

Secure design patterns

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity/CS/related

Tools

Snyk

GitHub Advanced Security

DAST tooling

SBOM/SCA tooling

CI/CD security tooling

Azure/AWS IAM tooling

Job description

Insight Global seeks a Senior Application Security Architect to lead security architecture across our client’s digital products. You will review full lifecycles, guide secure design, and drive remediation across web, mobile, APIs, and cloud platforms.

The role combines hands‑on engineering with strategic architectural leadership and mentorship for engineering teams. You will influence SSDLC standards, perform threat modeling, and validate security through code reviews, testing, and security