Motion Recruitment Partners, LLC
Motion Recruitment Partners, LLC

Principal Application Security Engineer

CHARLOTTE, NC, US • Posted 12 hours ago • Updated 35 minutes ago
Contract W2
On-site
$89.37 - $100.69/hr
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Skills

  • Finance
  • Training
  • Military
  • Information Security
  • SCA
  • Penetration Testing
  • IT Management
  • DevSecOps
  • Continuous Integration
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Financial Services
  • CISSP
  • CISM
  • Evaluation
  • Analytical Skill
  • Software Development Methodology
  • Innovation
  • Use Cases
  • Threat Modeling
  • Meta-data Management
  • Testing
  • Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Onboarding
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Leadership
  • Software Security
  • Management
  • Research

Summary

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Principal Application Security Engineer in Charlotte, NC (Hybrid).

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.

Contract Duration: 12 Months

Required Skills & Experience
  • 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.
  • 7+ years of Application Security or Information Security Engineering experience at enterprise scale.
  • Deep expertise in SSDLC controls including threat modeling, secure design, SAST, SCA, DAST, and penetration testing.
  • Proven ability to define security strategy and deliver outcomes through influence and technical leadership.
  • Experience securing GenAI and LLM-based applications, including adversarial testing and prompt-injection defenses.
  • Experience designing AI-driven security automation or decisioning capabilities.
  • Strong understanding of DevSecOps and CI/CD security integration.
  • Experience working in highly regulated environments such as financial services.
  • Relevant security certifications (CISSP, CSSP, CISM, or equivalent).

What You Will Be Doing
  • Consult as an expert to develop or influence initiatives and resources for highly complex business and technical needs across Engineering.
  • Consult on the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, and advanced analytical and inductive thinking.
  • Provide expertise to client senior leadership on innovative Engineering business solutions.
  • Strategically engage with client personnel.
  • DCMS Application Security Strategy
  • Define and lead the Application Security strategy for DCMS in-scope applications using tier-based control models.
  • Evaluate existing AppSec control coverage and establish baseline mappings by application tier.
  • Identify control gaps and drive remediation and onboarding plans with application teams and stakeholders.
  • Partner with Application Security Champions and engineering teams to ensure consistent adoption of required AppSec controls.
  • Ensure alignment with enterprise SDLC requirements and defect remediation expectations.
  • AI Innovation for Application Security
  • Identify and deliver AI and GenAI use cases that reduce manual AppSec effort and improve security coverage.
  • Design and implement automated threat modeling using code, infrastructure-as-code, and application metadata.
  • Develop adversarial testing capabilities for GenAI and LLM-based applications, including prompt injection and abuse scenarios.
  • Lead initiatives for AI model scanning, integrity validation, and secure onboarding of models.
  • Define protections for AI-specific risks including insecure prompt construction, tool misuse, and secrets exposure.
  • AppSec Modernization and Automation
  • Drive modernization of AppSec controls through automation, rationalization, and platform integration.
  • Build proofs-of-concept and pilot new security capabilities, scaling successful solutions into production.
  • Influence simplification of AppSec processes to improve developer experience while maintaining strong risk controls.
  • Senior Lead Influence and Leadership
  • Provide strategic guidance to senior leadership on Application Security priorities, risks, and investment decisions.
  • Influence cross-functional teams without direct authority to achieve enterprise security outcomes.
  • Research emerging threats and technologies and translate insights into actionable AppSec strategy.
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  • Dice Id: 10105282
  • Position Id: 884691
  • Posted 12 hours ago

Company Info

About Motion Recruitment Partners, LLC

Motion Recruitment delivers IT Talent Solutions for Contract, Direct Hire, Managed Solutions and Statement of Work to all of North America from our 21 delivery centers. Our high-touch, specialized, team-based recruitment model’s success is proven through our exemplary track record in filling the most challenging IT positions for startup and enterprise clients alike. Our hyper-specialized tech focus results in a truly consultative approach for both our clients and candidates, within our recruiting areas of expertise: Software, Mobile, Data, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Product + UX and Functional.

Motion also delivers IT Consulting Solutions through the Motion Consulting Group (MCG) that create true digital transformation for IT projects in Agile Development & Coaching, DevOps & DevSecOps Solutions, and Managed Services for IT Operations.

We’re also the proud creators of Tech in Motion and the Timmy Awards, our North American community platform, events series and award program that connects over 250,000 tech enthusiasts to meet, learn, and innovate.

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