Senior Application Security Architect

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🕒 June 17

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EXL

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10,000+ employees

🏥 Healthcare

🛡️ Insurance

📦 Logistics

💰 $2M Venture Round on 2015-01

Healthcare • Insurance • Logistics

EXL is a business consulting and services firm that focuses on leveraging data to enhance business operations and decision-making. With a strong emphasis on collaboration and adaptability, EXL partners with organizations to address their unique needs and culture while integrating data science and technology solutions. The company's areas of expertise include operations management, decision analytics, digital transformation, and various industries such as healthcare, finance, and insurance. EXL's mission is to help clients drive business evolution and maintain competitive advantage through tailored solutions and effective use of data.

📋 Description

• Serve as the security architecture authority within the architecture organization, partnering with product architects, principal engineers, cloud partners (AWS, Azure, GCP), and business leaders to embed secure-by-design principles into hardware appliances, multi-tenant SaaS platforms, and globally distributed cloud infrastructure. • Coach and support developers in writing secure code, including secure patterns, common vulnerability classes, and secure use of frameworks and libraries. • Provide timely consulting on “how to do it right” (architecture, implementation details, and operational considerations) and help teams choose secure-by-default approaches. • Triage findings from SAST, SCA, DAST, container and IaC scanning; investigate, validate, and resolve false positives; and help teams prioritize true risk. • Partner with teams to tune security tools, reduce noise, and improve signal quality (rules, suppressions, baselines, and exception processes) while maintaining strong security posture. • Drive adoption of CNAPP, CWPP, WAF, service mesh security, API gateways, SIEM/SOAR, and cloud-native telemetry for protective monitoring, runtime defense, and incident-ready detection. • Conduct Secure by Design reviews for new applications and material changes to existing applications, validating security requirements and design decisions early. • Lead and facilitate threat modeling workshops; identify abuse cases, trust boundaries, and attack paths; and document mitigations and residual risk. • Review authentication/authorization design, data flows, secrets handling, logging/monitoring, and resiliency controls to ensure secure architectures. • Provide clear, actionable recommendations and track follow-through with engineering teams. • Translate regulatory and compliance requirements (FedRAMP, SOC2, ISO 27001, NIST SP 800-53, CSA CCM, SOX) into actionable, measurable, and auditable security architecture control objectives—shifting from audit-driven to architecture-driven alignment.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years related IT experience; 5+ years' experience in security application tools • 6+ years' experience in application security reviews of new architecture; 5 + years of experience with public and hybrid cloud (AWS, Azure and GCP) environments. • Strong software development background with the ability to read, understand, and advise on production code and design decisions. • Demonstrated expertise in threat modeling and secure architecture review for modern web and API-based applications. • Expertise securing CI/CD and SDLC processes (pipeline security, secrets management, artifact integrity, build/release controls, and automation). • Experience with application security tooling and processes, including managing findings and resolving false positives (SAST/SCA/DAST and related scanning in pipelines). • Working knowledge of AI/ML security risks and mitigations for applications that use ML models or GenAI components. • Strong collaborative and consulting skills ability to influence without authority, communicate clearly, and deliver pragmatic, developer-friendly recommendations.