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The Application Security Analyst will help developers and technology teams understand, evaluate, and address Application Security findings.
This hands-on role combines security analysis, remediation guidance, false-positive evaluation, effective challenge, validation, and developer partnership. The analyst will build the technical judgment required to interpret security findings and help translate them into practical security outcomes.
The successful candidate will bring a foundation in application or software security and an interest in developing deeper technical expertise while working directly with software-development teams.
Job Responsibilities
Analyze Application Security findings and supporting technical evidence to understand security relevance and appropriate treatment.
Help developers understand vulnerabilities and provide practical guidance for remediation.
Evaluate false-positive assertions and other technical explanations using available evidence and appropriate effective challenge.
Review remediation evidence and support technically defensible finding validation and closure.
Partner with senior Application Security practitioners and software-development teams while contributing reusable guidance and identifying opportunities to improve the customer experience.
Required Qualifications
Experience in Application Security, product security, secure software development, DevSecOps security, penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, or a comparable application-focused security discipline.
Experience analyzing application vulnerabilities, security findings, source code, software behavior, or related technical evidence.
Experience working with software developers, engineering teams, or comparable technical partners to understand or address software-security issues.
Experience and Education
Two or more years of relevant professional experience in Application Security, software security, secure software development, security testing, or a related technical discipline.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with static analysis, software-composition analysis, secret scanning, penetration-testing findings, or comparable Application Security capabilities.
Experience providing remediation guidance, false-positive analysis, finding validation, or other technical security support in a software-development environment.
Experience with common software-development, source-control, CI/CD, or Application Security technologies.
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Salary Range:
$69,825 - 111,815 USD
Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension), health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability), paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life & accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.
Work Authorization
Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for…