Main Responsibilities and Key Deliverables:

- Provide security consultancy on specialist strategic topics
- Work closely with vendors, platform teams and subject matter experts (SMEs) where necessary in order to drive out architectural decisions, design statements and exceptions.
- Take the lead on solving security challenges and issues where the problem scenario is not covered by a pattern, standard or existing strategy.
- Surface strategic and architectural decisions through the approved governance or oversight channels as defined by the banks operating model.
- Where embedded within a project, act as a primary resource ensuring commitment to attend all appropriate calls and meetings in order to provide the level of support required.
- Acts as a buffer between the speed of continuous integration and the need for strategic security and managing overall business and security risks
- Act as the first point of contact for IT Security questions and queries
- Participate in IT Security engagement activities (e.g. risk assessment and threat modelling sessions, security risk review etc.);
- Identify security risks as they arise, communicate it as appropriate and ensure relevant stakeholders are involved for the adequate mitigation or remediation
- Provide guidance to the teams and stakeholders of IT Security by referring to policies and standards
- Promote the adoption of security tooling in line with the development lifecycle and HSBC approved toolset;
- Identify and make recommendations geared at increasing teams velocity through self-sufficiency in terms of IT Security
- Educate teams in terms of their security capabilities
- Identify, engage and establish relationships with key stakeholders
- Assess Dev team IT Security profile, controls, and level of engagement




- Provide advice and guidance to relevant stakeholders about the IT Security engagement model improvement

Technical Skills:

- Security Architecture or Security Solution Architecture experience
- Security solution design or security design document review and preparation
- Experience of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS and GCP) and experience in performing security review against applications deployed in cloud.
- Experience in container security, microservice security, API security and Kubernetes or other container orchestration products
- Have experience in application risk assessment, threat modelling
- Proficient in application security review of Web, Mobile and API.
- Ability to assess and identify any possible vulnerabilities/risks in technology being developed prior to implementation
- Experienced in web application, API Security, and mobile application security testing in conformance to various industry standards like OWASP top 10, SANS top 25 etc.
- Good to have knowledge on programming and scripting skills in languages like Java, JavaScript, Angular, Spring Boot etc.
- Good to have experience on app/API IAM/authentication/authorization products
- Strong understanding of the security threat landscape, awareness of major historical and recent vulnerabilities, awareness of security industry responses to significant threats
- Robust understanding of Zero Trust security including detailed knowledge of concepts, industry whitepapers and practical implementations
- Strong understanding of security industry trends, hot topics, commercial and vendor capability awareness
- Educated to degree level desirable but not essential

Skills: threat modeling , Web Application Security, Mobile Application Security, Api, Security Design

Experience: 5.00-10.00 Years

📌 Security Consultant (Pune)
🏢 Purview India Consulting And Services
📍 Pune