JOB DESCRIPTION
Location: Hybrid (Downtown, Toronto)
Duration: 6 months
Our client, a leading financial institution in Downtown Toronto is looking for an Application Security Product Manager to collaborate with stakeholders across the Bank – 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. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with one of the Top 5 Banks in Canada.
Typical Day in role:
- Define the objectives and scope of the product, clearly outlining the problems and risks it’s solving
Product Strategy
- 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
- Data Driven Insights and Presentation Skills
- Should be proficient at creating presentations and comfortable speaking to a large leadership audience
- Articulate product roadmap decisions based on sound data – therefore be proficient with data analysis (using MS excel etc.), as it is a key skill in driving a data-driven approach to decision making
- Be comfortable with developing business cases with a clear cost/benefit analysis and cost allocation model to unlock funding for the roadmap items (with Technology, PMO, and Finance approvals)
Must-Have Skills:
- 10+ years of relevant working experience in IT (application development, security etc.)
- 3+ years of experience as a full-stack Product Manager, with demonstrated experience in creating roadmaps, scoping, and financing
- 3+ years of experience with AppSec domains like SAST, SCA, DAST and/or tools like Veracode, Checkmarx, Fortify, Snyk, Burp Suite, Zap etc.
- 3+ years of experience with documenting process, requirements, and product information
- 1+ year of experience building business cases and demonstrating value of a product and cost-benefit analysis
Nice-To-Have Skills:
- 3+ years of experience with CI/CD Pipeline tools and processes like BitBucket/GitHub, Jfrog Artifactory, Ansible, Confluence, Jira, Bamboo etc.
- Experience with deployment and managing IaaS, PaaS & SaaS solutions
- 3+ years of experience in the financial industry or tech/startups
Soft Skills Required:
- Excellent presentation skills – as a Product Manager, will be the spokesperson for the product to the organization at large
- Proficient at creating presentations and comfortable speaking to a large leadership audience.
- Demonstrable communication capability including verbal presentations to senior leadership
Education:
- Education doesn’t matter as much – valuing work experience more
- Security certifications like CISSP an asset
Finance professional is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience. We advocate for you and welcome anyone regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, or age.