Senior App Security Lead - AI-Driven SDLC

Wintrust Financial Corporation; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 117,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

401(k) with company match

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Wintrust Financial Corporation seeks a Senior Application Security Specialist to lead security across applications, APIs, and SaaS platforms. You will partner with development teams to embed security throughout the SDLC, reduce risk, and align with regulatory requirements.

You will drive threat modeling, security reviews, and tooling integration (SAST/DAST/SCA) in CI/CD, with emphasis on AI-assisted workflows and secure coding coaching for engineers. Chicago-based, competitive package included.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of relevant experience in application security or DevSecOps.
• Experience with threat modeling and secure design across web apps, APIs and cloud services.
• Hands-on expertise with SAST, SCA, DAST, secrets management, and secure coding practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead threat modeling, security architecture reviews, and code reviews for enterprise applications and APIs.
• Implement and tune SAST/DAST and SCA within CI/CD pipelines; integrate API security tooling.
• Drive vulnerability remediation and secure coding training with development teams.
• Coach teams on secure SDLC practices and AI-assisted security workflows.

Skills

Application security

Threat modeling

Code reviews

SAST

SCA

DAST

API security

OAuth/OIDC

Secrets management

AI-assisted SDLC

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Checkmarx

Akamai API Security

Git CI/CD

Job description

Wintrust Financial Corporation seeks a Senior Application Security Specialist to lead security across applications, APIs, and SaaS platforms. You will partner with development teams to embed security throughout the SDLC, reduce risk, and align with regulatory requirements.

You will drive threat modeling, security reviews, and tooling integration (SAST/DAST/SCA) in CI/CD, with emphasis on AI-assisted workflows and secure coding coaching for engineers. Chicago-based, competitive package included.