About the Role
This is a highly influential role focused on improving how security is embedded across software engineering practices, helping teams build secure products at speed while continuously uplifting security capability across the organisation. You'll work across a broad range of Retail Banking portfolios, partnering with engineering teams, technology leaders and security specialists to drive practical security outcomes. This is an opportunity to shape the future direction of application security through innovation, automation and modern engineering practices.
Responsibilities
- Lead application security initiatives across multiple technology domains and delivery streams
- Partner with engineering teams to identify security risks and drive pragmatic remediation strategies
- Perform and guide application security assessments, including source code reviews and security testing activities
- Embed secure-by-design principles throughout the software development lifecycle
- Influence security outcomes across complex and fast-paced engineering environments
- Develop new approaches that leverage automation and AI to improve security effectiveness and scalability
- Mentor engineers and security practitioners, helping uplift capability across the organisation
- Support the continuous evolution of application security standards, practices and ways of working
- Work closely with stakeholders to balance security, customer experience and delivery objectives
Requirements
- Deep expertise in Application Security or Product Security, leading end-to-end security engagements and influencing secure design, engineering and delivery outcomes at scale.
- Deep understanding of secure software development practices and common application security vulnerabilities
- Experience conducting security assessments, source code reviews and application security testing activities
- Demonstrated ability to influence engineering teams and security outcomes within large and complex organisations
- Experience working within modern software engineering environments, including cloud-native and DevSecOps practices
- Strong technical problem-solving skills combined with an ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- A passion for mentoring others and building security capability at scale
- An interest in emerging technologies and the practical application of AI and automation within security.
Skills
- Application Security
- Product Security
- Secure design
- Secure engineering
- Secure delivery
- Secure software development practices
- Application security assessments
- Source code reviews
- Application security testing
- Cloud-native practices
- DevSecOps practices
- Technical problem-solving
- Communication
- Mentoring
- AI
- Automation
Experience Level
- Principal
About the Company
- At CommBank, we're building tomorrow's bank today. Technology is at the heart of everything we do and security is fundamental to providing safe, secure and trusted experiences for millions of customers.
- Group Security safeguards a brighter future for all by securing the bank, protecting our customers and enabling technology teams to deliver safely at speed. We partner across the organisation to embed security earlier in the development lifecycle and help teams build secure, resilient and trusted experiences for millions of customers.
- As part of our Product Security capability, you will play a key role in strengthening secure engineering practices, reducing risk and driving the evolution of product security across Retail Banking technology portfolios.
