About the Role
An established global organisation is seeking an experienced Team Lead to lead a team focused on application security within a modern cloud environment.
This position combines people leadership, technical direction and strategic planning. You'll be responsible for building a high-performing team, shaping engineering practices and ensuring security is embedded throughout the software development lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, coach and develop a team of engineers and security specialists.
- Define the team's vision, technical strategy and delivery roadmap.
- Own the successful delivery of key engineering initiatives and security improvements.
- Work closely with engineering, product and business stakeholders to prioritise work and deliver measurable outcomes.
- Champion Secure SDLC practices across development teams.
- Drive improvements in automation, CI/CD pipelines, testing, release processes and platform reliability.
- Establish engineering standards through architecture reviews, technical guidance and code quality initiatives.
- Use engineering metrics and data to support planning, prioritisation, capacity management and continuous improvement.
- Promote modern engineering practices while staying current with emerging security threats, technologies and frameworks.
Required Experience
- Extensive experience within Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevSecOps or Application Security.
- Experience leading and developing technical teams.
- Experience delivering large-scale, cloud-native applications within AWS environments.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile delivery methodologies.
- Proven experience implementing Secure SDLC across engineering teams.
- Strong knowledge of DevSecOps principles and security-focused software delivery.
- Experience working with application security tooling, including:
- SAST (Static Application Security Testing)
- DAST (Dynamic Application Security Testing)
- SCA (Software Composition Analysis)
- Secrets Management
- Secrets Scanning
- Experience improving engineering practices through automation, testing and CI/CD.
- Ability to define technical roadmaps and deliver against strategic objectives.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence engineering and business leaders.
- Data-driven approach, using analytics and engineering metrics to guide technical decisions.
- Passion for mentoring engineers and building high-performing teams.
Desirable Experience
- Experience with modern Application Security tooling such as Checkmarx, Veracode, Fortify, SonarQube, Snyk or similar.
- Background working within enterprise-scale engineering environments.
- Experience leading security transformation or DevSecOps adoption initiatives.