Sr. Application Security Architect

Location: Pune Employment Type: full-time

Job Details

• 8–12 years of overall experience in Cybersecurity and Application Security, with at least 4+ years of hands-on experience in application security, security assessments, and security architecture.
• Strong experience performing application security assessments and identifying security risks across web applications, APIs, mobile applications, and enterprise platforms.
• Deep expertise in threat modeling, with the ability to assess systems from an attacker's perspective and identify potential attack paths and security weaknesses.
• Strong experience conducting application and security architecture reviews and providing security recommendations during solution design and implementation.
• Strong knowledge of OWASP Top 10, OWASP ASVS, OWASP API Security Top 10, and secure software development principles.
• Experience with attack surface analysis, abuse cases, data-flow analysis, security design reviews, and threat modeling methodologies.
• Strong understanding of common application security vulnerabilities, including broken authentication, broken access control, injection, insecure APIs, session management issues, cryptographic weaknesses, and application misconfigurations.
• Good understanding of penetration testing and red-team methodologies, with a strong attacker mindset; however, this is not a dedicated penetration testing role.
• Hands-on experience with SAST, DAST, SCA, API security tools, vulnerability scanning, secrets scanning, and other application security testing technologies.
• Strong knowledge of secure application architecture, including authentication, authorization, API security, encryption, secrets management, session management, and secure integration patterns.
• Experience implementing or supporting Secure SDLC and DevSecOps, including the integration of security controls into CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of modern application environments, including cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Azure, microservices, containers, Kubernetes, and APIs.
• Ability to work closely with development, infrastructure, enterprise architecture, and cybersecurity teams to prioritize and drive remediation of security risks.
• Ability to translate technical security findings into clear risk assessments, security requirements, architectural recommendations, and remediation roadmaps.
• Strong communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to independently work as part of a long-term dedicated security team supporting US-based stakeholders.