Sr. Associate, Cyber Security - Application Security

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KPMG is currently seeking a Senior Associate in Technology Enablement for our Consulting practice.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with industry/business subject area professionals, software engineers, and technical leadership as part of a dynamic, and fast paced project team to design, configure and build applications and services in accordance with modern DevSecOps process and agile methodologies
• Facilitate client discovery sessions to define project scope and requirements, and translate business processes to functional specifications and user stories, as well as lead workshops and presentations of key solution design, technology architecture concepts and demonstrations to client stakeholders
• Perform security engineering tasks related to developing proof-of-concepts, prototypes, and/or solutions; create, review, and maintain technical drawings, technical textual descriptions, presentations, roadmaps, project plans and backlogs
• Lead/support the design, build, test, and delivery of cloud and application security platform solutions using industry leading vendor technologies
• Identify opportunities to sustainably reduce the most risk at the lowest cost at the fastest pace

Qualifications:

• Minimum of three years Information Security experience, and minimum of three years of application security/DevOps experience

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university or equivalent professional experience

• Experience with software development life cycle as well as solid documentation skills including ability to work with Visio for creating process and design workflows, as well as working in an Agile or Scrum software development environment

• Possess one or more AWS certifications is a plus and experience with JIRA, Confluence, and application security testing tools through college course work or at current job preferred

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with experience interacting with clients at multiple levels as well as ability to demonstrate strong analytical and problem solving skills

• Ability to travel , work in a fast paced, results driven environment, grasp new technology, and contribute at a rapid pace

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