Lead, Application Security Engineering

Northern Trust is hiring for a hands-on role focused on building and scaling an Application Security program that engineers can rely on. This onsite position in Tempe, AZ centers on engineering security platforms, integrations, and automation that strengthen delivery across CI/CD and developer workflows, with an emphasis on reliability, observability, and repeatable engineering patterns.

What you’ll do

• Engineer and continuously improve Application Security platforms, integrations, automation, and technical workflows.
• Design and enhance integrations across source control, CI/CD, security tooling, cloud services, workflow platforms, and enterprise technology environments.
• Troubleshoot complex technical failures and improve capability reliability, observability, recovery, and scalability.
• Automate repeatable technical work as workflow understanding matures, while creating reusable engineering patterns and technical documentation.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership and collaborate with engineering teams, technology partners, and vendors to improve Application Security technical service delivery.

What you bring

• Hands-on experience engineering, integrating, or supporting complex enterprise software, platform, infrastructure, DevSecOps, security, or comparable technical capabilities.
• Experience building integrations or automation using APIs, scripting, workflow technologies, software development, or comparable engineering methods.
• Experience solving complex technical problems across CI/CD, source control, developer tooling, cloud services, enterprise platforms, or comparable software-delivery environments.

Technologies you may work with

• APIs, scripting, workflow technologies
• CI/CD, source control
• Cloud technologies
• GitHub, Checkmarx, ServiceNow

Experience and education

• Eight or more years of relevant professional experience in software engineering, platform engineering, DevSecOps, infrastructure engineering, security engineering, systems integration, or a related technical discipline.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience integrating security testing, security controls, or other technical services into software-delivery and developer workflows.
• Experience with enterprise platforms such as GitHub, Checkmarx, ServiceNow, cloud technologies, or comparable development, workflow, and security technologies.
• Experience improving technical capabilities through automation, observability, reliability engineering, or transitioning from manually intensive or vendor-supported delivery.

Compensation and work authorization

Salary range: USD 94,620 - 160,740 per year.

Work authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. Northern Trust will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa).

Benefits

• Retirement benefits including 401k and pension
• Health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability)
• Paid time off
• Parental and caregiver leave
• Life & accident insurance
• Discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing adjustments to individuals with health conditions and disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, email [email protected], or discuss your individual requirements with the recruiter you are working with.