job summary
The Application Security Program Manager (Business SME 1) supports the Information Security Office in transitioning the State's secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC) from a near-complete modernization project to a sustained operating program. The position coordinates the people, decisions, workflows, and measures needed to make application security practices workable across State technology teams. As initial transition tasks are completed, the manager shifts effort to adoption, performance, risk reduction, and continuous improvement across the broader application security portfolio.
location: Telecommute
job type: Contract
salary: $54.80 - 64.80 per hour
education: Bachelors
responsibilities
Coordinate transition from project deliverables to owned processes, including named owners, documented handoffs, decision paths, service expectations, and a practical operating cadence. Maintain the program roadmap, priorities, dependencies, risks, and improvement backlog.
Work with accountable teams to validate and improve the application risk profile, security requirements, design review, scanning, finding triage, remediation, exception, and release workflows. Ensure guidance reflects real tools and different applications and vendor models.
Plan rollout waves with development and platform partners; support security champions, training, office hours, and clear developer-facing guidance. Gather feedback and remove barriers that prevent teams from applying the workflow consistently.
Help product and development teams turn findings into risk-ranked plans with owners, target dates, and closure evidence. Track coverage gaps, aging findings, blockers, and escalations while the responsible teams perform remediation and verification.
Facilitate working groups and leadership reviews, maintain an accurate responsibility model, and route design questions to Security Architecture and policy, exception, and risk decisions through GRC and authorized Information Security Office leadership.
Define useful measures with data owners; coordinate trustworthy reporting on application coverage, adoption, remediation, exceptions, and control performance. Use trends and team feedback to propose changes, report progress, and adjust priorities.
Coordinate related initiatives in repository governance, security tooling, platform integration, third-party application security, and developer enablement. Surface capacity, funding, and service dependencies; prepare concise options and recommendations for leadership.
qualifications
Substantial experience managing complex technology, cybersecurity, or application security programs across multiple teams, with demonstrated delivery through influence and shared accountability.
Working knowledge of software delivery and application security concepts, including security requirements, code and dependency scanning, vulnerability management, remediation, and risk treatment.
Ability to translate technical and policy issues into clear actions, owners, decisions, and management reporting; strong facilitation, writing, and stakeholder communication skills.
Experience establishing repeatable processes, coordinating organizational change, using measures to improve performance, and managing competing priorities in an evolving program.
Experience implementing, operationalizing, or governing Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) practices across multiple development teams.
skills
Information Security
Security Architecture
GitHub
secure software development
Application Development
application security
Vulnerability Management
platform integration
Coordinate
coordinating
creative problem-solving
leadership
self-motivated individual
Collaboration
trustworthy
continuous improvement
organizational change
confidentiality
design review
Governance
Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC)
GRC
infrastructure
management reporting
program management
risk
risks
risk profile
risk reduction
risk treatment
security tooling
security requirements
stakeholder communication
triage
workflows