Application Security Assurance Lead, Vice President

SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. The Group has more than 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan. SMFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges.

In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia, the Group offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate, institutional, and municipal clients. It connects a diverse client base to local markets and the organization’s extensive global network. The Group’s operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., SMBC Capital Markets, Inc., SMBC MANUBANK, JRI America, Inc., SMBC Leasing and Finance, Inc., Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd.

Job Summary Join SMBC’s Application Security team and help strengthen the security of applications across the Americas Division. In this role, you will lead application security assurance activities, drive vulnerability remediation efforts, and partner closely with software engineering teams to identify and address security risks throughout the software development lifecycle. You will serve as a trusted advisor on secure coding, code review findings, and application security controls while helping mature the organization’s application security program.

Principal Duties And Responsibilities

• Partner with software engineering teams to identify, prioritize, and remediate application security vulnerabilities before production release.
• Review and explain security findings from code scans, helping development teams understand root causes and remediation options.
• Ensure applications are consistently assessed through security testing activities, including SAST, SCA, DAST, IAST, and container security scanning.
• Collaborate with security architecture teams on secure design reviews, threat modeling activities, and application security improvements.
• Work with vulnerability management teams to validate findings and ensure remediation activities meet established service level agreements.
• Develop and maintain reporting that measures application security risk, remediation progress, and program effectiveness for leadership.
• Perform targeted manual validation of security findings and support application security testing efforts when needed.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of secure development processes, security champion programs, and developer education initiatives.

POSITION SPECIFICATIONS

• 7+ years of experience in application security, application penetration testing, or a related cybersecurity discipline.
• Experience leading vulnerability remediation efforts and working directly with software engineering teams to improve security outcomes.
• Ability to read, analyze, and explain source code vulnerabilities and secure coding approaches.
• Experience developing or maintaining secure software delivery processes within CI/CD environments.
• Strong understanding of the Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC).
• Knowledge of common application security threats, attack techniques, and mitigation strategies.
• Experience creating process documentation, security standards, and operational procedures.
• Experience using Jira and Confluence.

Software Development

• Experience with one or more programming languages such as C#, C++, Java, Python, or .NET technologies.
• Ability to develop proof-of-concept fixes, remediation guidance, or automation scripts that support cybersecurity operations.

Application Security

• 5+ years of experience with application security testing, including Static Application Security Testing (SAST) and/or Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST).
• Strong knowledge of OWASP Top 10, Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE), and secure coding practices.

Container Security

• 2+ years of experience securing containerized applications and working with container technologies.

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience managing Security Champion programs or developer security outreach initiatives.
• Experience conducting application penetration testing.
• Participation in bug bounty programs.
• Familiarity with application security metrics and executive-level reporting.
• Experience building automation to improve security testing, reporting, or remediation workflows.

SMBC’s employees participate in a Hybrid workforce model that provides employees with an opportunity to work from home, as well as, from an SMBC office. SMBC requires that employees live within a reasonable commuting distance of their office location. Prospective candidates will learn more about their specific hybrid work schedule during their interview process. Hybrid work may not be permitted for certain roles, including, for example, certain FINRA-registered roles for which in-office attendance for the entire workweek is required.

SMBC provides reasonable accommodations during candidacy for applicants with disabilities consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please let us know at [email protected].