Application Security Compliance Lead

What you will do

• Govern the Secure SDLC. Maintain and improve practices aligned with the PCI Secure SLC Standard.
• Enable PCI SSF validation. Guide teams through external assessment, self-assessment, annual attestation and periodic revalidation activities.
• Interpret requirements. Translate security, privacy, legal and industry requirements into clear, proportionate guidance.
• Assess readiness and close gaps. Coordinate reviews, evidence, gap analysis, remediation and resolution of findings.
• Engage and influence. Partner with engineering, Legal, risk, compliance and security teams, QSAs and the PCI SSC.
• Build capability. Create training and reusable guidance; monitor developments and communicate material changes.
• Drive continual improvement. Use industry changes, stakeholder feedback, internal audits, assessment outcomes, recurring findings, and incidents to strengthen controls and processes.
• What you will bring
• Essential experience and capabilities
• Typically, 7+ years of relevant experience in application security, software security assurance, secure software development, technology risk, privacy, compliance, or audit.
• Practical experience developing, operating, governing or assessing a Secure SDLC.
• Experience interpreting security or compliance requirements and supporting assessments, evidence collection, gap analysis and remediation.
• Working knowledge of threat modelling, vulnerability management, security testing, and risk-based decision-making.
• Technical understanding of cloud services, source-code management, and CI/CD practices sufficient to engage credibly with engineering teams.
• Ability to convert complex requirements into pragmatic guidance and make evidence-based recommendations.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to influence without direct authority.
• Ability to work independently and effectively within a globally distributed team.
• Comfortable using AI assistants, such as Copilot, responsibly in day-to-day work to improve personal productivity, quality, and speed of delivery.
• A bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience and qualifications.
• Desirable experience and capabilities
• Direct experience of PCI SSF validation or a comparable software security assurance framework.
• Knowledge of payment-card security, GDPR requirements, NIST CSF and OWASP standards and guidance.
• Experience delivering application security or compliance-related training.
• Knowledge of security and governance for AI-enabled software development and products.
• A relevant certification, such as CISSP, CSSLP, CIPP, CIPT or CIPM.
• How you will succeed
• Teams receive clear, timely, and actionable compliance guidance.
• PCI SSF validation activities are well planned, appropriately evidenced, and progressed effectively.
• Compliance gaps and findings are clearly owned, prioritized, tracked, and resolved.
• Secure SDLC requirements remain practical, current, and consistently understood.
• Assessment and incident lessons lead to sustainable improvements and strong stakeholder relationships.
• Evidence we value
• In your application, we would particularly welcome examples of how you have interpreted a security standard, prepared a product or organization for assessment, resolved a significant compliance gap, or influenced an engineering team to adopt a more effective security practice.
• Offers of employment are conditional upon passage of screening criteria applicable to the job.
• EEO Statement NCR Atleos is an equal-opportunity employer. It is NCR Atleos policy to hire, train, promote, and pay associates based on their job-related qualifications, ability, and performance, without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, marital status, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, medical condition, military or veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.
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