Capability Lead – Application Security

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Application Security Capability Leads should possess strong experience in application security and actively contribute to the development and maturity of the application security practice. This includes hands-on expertise across application security domains, supporting practice growth, enabling go-to-market initiatives, and contributing to thought leadership and best practices within the practice.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Practice Development:

Develop and execute strategic plans for the application security practice

Develop/enhance service capabilities in the areas of application security including application security assessments, threat modelling, vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, and code reviews to identify and mitigate potential security issues.

Develop service offerings, pricing strategies, and sales collateral

Oversee security assessments programs (DAST/SAST/SCA) and application security audits

Collaborate with sales teams, pre-sales teams and other internal and external stakeholders to proactively position application security services to customers.

Establish solution/service center of excellence (CoE) through collaboration with vendors and partners including startups

Stay updated on the latest security threats, trends, and technologies to provide advisory to customers.

2. Delivery and Operations:

Govern application security delivery

Manage application security CoEs to

Stay up-to-date with emerging threats, technologies, and application exploit techniques

3. Go-to-Market:

Collaborate with sales teams to develop and execute go-to-market strategies

Develop and deliver thought leadership content (e.g., blog posts, white papers, webinars, conference talks)

Build relationships with key clients, partners, and industry influencers

4. Leadership:

Lead and mentor a team of security professionals, including managers and individual contributors

Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning

Qualifications Experience:

15 years of experience in application security, with 8 years in leadership roles

Proven track record of building and managing successful security practices

Strong knowledge of penetration testing, red teaming, purple teaming, breach attack simulation, and ethical hacking

Experience with practice development, go-to-market strategies, and sales enablement

Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills

Industry-recognized security certifications (e.g., OSCP, CEH, CISSP, CISA, CISM)

Workplace type: Hybrid Working

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responsible innovation. We are one of the world’s leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with

unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and

application services. Our consulting and industry solutions help organizations and society move

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than 70 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as

established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each

year in RD.

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