Application Security Program Manager
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Application security program manager transitioning Maine state government’s SSDLC modernization into sustained operations. Coordinating risk, remediation, governance, adoption, and reporting across technology teams.
Responsibilities:
- Support the Information Security Office in transitioning the State’s SSDLC from a modernization project to a sustained operating program
- Coordinate the people, decisions, workflows, and measures needed to operationalize application security practices across State technology teams
- Drive adoption, performance, risk reduction, continuous improvement, follow-through, and accountability across stakeholders
- Work with Vulnerability Management, Security Architecture, GRC, Application Development, GitHub Governance, infrastructure and platform teams, agency product owners, and vendors
- Coordinate transition from project deliverables to owned processes with named owners, documented handoffs, decision paths, service expectations, and an operating cadence
- Maintain the program roadmap, priorities, dependencies, risks, and improvement backlog
- Validate and improve application risk, security requirements, design review, scanning, finding triage, remediation, exception, and release workflows
- Plan rollout waves and support security champions, training, office hours, and developer-facing guidance
- Gather feedback and remove workflow adoption barriers
- Help teams create risk-ranked remediation plans with owners, target dates, and closure evidence
- Track coverage gaps, aging findings, blockers, escalations, and remediation verification
- Facilitate working groups and leadership reviews; maintain the responsibility model and route decisions to authorized owners
- Define measures and coordinate reporting on application coverage, adoption, remediation, exceptions, and control performance
- Coordinate related initiatives in repository governance, security tooling, platform integration, third-party application security, and developer enablement
- Surface capacity, funding, and service dependencies; prepare options and recommendations for leadership
Requirements:
- 8 to 10 years of experience in leadership roles, cybersecurity program management, and change agent roles improving application security program maturity
- Experience improving application security program maturity
- Stakeholder Management and Organizational Change Management Leadership
- Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC)
- Applicants must reside in the EST or CST time zones
- Cannot require C2C
- Cannot require sponsorship for a work visa
- Preferred: Certification in code and dependency scanning
- Preferred: Strong facilitation, writing, and stakeholder communication skills
- Preferred: Substantial experience managing complex technology, cybersecurity, or application security programs across multiple teams
- Preferred: Working knowledge of software delivery and application security concepts, including security requirements, code and dependency scanning, vulnerability management, remediation, and risk treatment
- Preferred: Ability to translate technical and policy issues into clear actions, owners, decisions, and management reporting
- Preferred: Experience establishing repeatable processes, coordinating organizational change, using measures to improve performance, and managing competing priorities
- Preferred: Experience implementing, operationalizing, or governing SSDLC practices across multiple development teams
Benefits:
- Contract through the end of June 2027, likely for extension
- Remote work provided the applicant resides in the EST or CST time zones
- Opportunities to tackle unique and complex projects in application security
- Collaboration with talented peers and exposure to creative problem-solving approaches
- Equal Opportunity Employer
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