04 Jan
S.i. Systems
Toronto
Our large banking client is looking for a Senior Product Owner with Application Security experience to build out new capabiltiies for a security application portfolio.
Location Address: Hybrid - downtown Toronto (financial district) - 2 days/week (flexible, HM is in Tues-Thurs, team comes in Tuesdays and Thursdays)
Contract Duration: 1 year Possibility of extension & conversion to FTE
Schedule Hours: 9am-5pm Monday-Friday; standard 37.5 hrs/week
Story Behind the Need:
Business group: Cloud & Application Security Product and Architecture- Hiring Manager’s team is a product group within Cloud and Applications Security
Project:
Cloud Acceleration Program - moving towards Google Cloud - HM is product owner for entire security application portfolio, this contractor will be the product manager for one of the following AppSec capabilities: SAST, DAST, MAST, SCA. Transformation building of new capabilities for application security; creating materials for VP and above (high visibility role)
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
1) 10+ years’ relevant academic + working experience
2) 3+ years’ experience as a full-stack Product Manager in an Agile environment, with demonstrated experience in creating roadmaps, scoping, and financing
3) 3+ years’ experience with AppSec domains (at least one of these): SAST, SCA, DAST, API Security
4) 3+ years’ experience with documenting process, requirements, and product information
5) 1+ year’ experience building business cases and demonstrating value of a product and cost-benefit analysis
Nice-To-Have Skills:
1) 3+ years’ experience with CI/CD Pipeline tools and processes like BitBucket/GitHub, Jfrog Artifactory, Ansible, Confluence, Jira, Bamboo etc
2) Experience with deployment and managing IaaS, PaaS & SaaS solutions
3)
3+ years’ experience in the financial industry or tech/startups
4) Experience with AppSec (preferably one of these): tools Veracode, Checkmarx, Fortify, Snyk, Burp Suite etc.
Typical Day in Role:
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the Bank - you will work closely with development and engineering, devops, cloud, application security and other application owner teams across the organization to deliver AppSec capabilities: SAST, DAST, MAST, SCA
- Define the objectives and scope of the product, clearly outlining the problems and risks it's solving.
- Contribute to the success of our product strategy by driving stakeholder alignment, maintaining a clear RACIs and clearly articulating MVP success criteria and rollout plans Product Management
- Build and maintain product roadmaps.
- Communicate roadmap progress with stakeholders and clients
- Manage and prioritize the product backlog, along with new features and enhancements we require from the product
- Facilitate forums and prepare the team for constructive collaboration sessions with cross-functional teams, technology and business channels, and control functions
- Define and report on overall product status, metrics, key achievements, next steps and risks with a data-driven approach
Education:
Undergrad preferred; Work experience prioritized Security certifications like CISSP an asset
Best VS. Average Candidate:
Ideal candidate is very detail oriented, analytical, organized; strong product manager who has worked in a tech company, startups; excellent presentation skills as these Product Managers are presenting to VPs and SVPs; strong agile experience; strong recent AppSec domain experience
Candidate Review & Selection
1 round - in person (Downtown Toronto Office)
1 hour - technical interview - with Hiring Manager - going through experience, potential whiteboarding session/scenario-based question shared live in interview to demonstrate candidate thought process
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