# Vice President, Application Security Specialist at CLS Group

> United States · Director+ · Security · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Aclsgroup%3A5500420004 (read 2026-11-09).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [CLS Group](https://alderhq.app/companies/cls-group)
- Location text: Iselin, New Jersey, United States; New Jersey - Metropark
- Where it can be done from (inferred): United States (evidence: "Location: Iselin, New Jersey, United States; New Jersey - Metropark")
- Posted: 2025-04-30 (558 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-04 · last verified: 2026-11-07
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://www.cls-group.com/people/your-career/jobs/job-detail?gh_jid=5500420004
- Skills listed (inferred): JavaScript, Python, Java, C#/.NET

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: $140k–$180k per year (from the description)
- Market band for similar posted roles (United States, n 79): p25 $216k, median $258k, p75 $300k

## Description (the employer's text)

### About CLS

CLS is the trusted party at the centre of the global FX ecosystem. Utilized by thousands of counterparties, CLS makes FX safer, smoother and more cost effective. Trillions of dollars’ worth of currency flows through our systems each day.

Created by the market for the market, our unrivalled global settlement infrastructure reduces systemic risk and provides standardization for participants in many of the world’s most actively traded currencies. We deliver huge efficiencies and savings for our clients: in fact, our approach to multilateral netting shrinks funding requirements by over 96% on average, so clients can put their capital and resources to better use.

CLS products are designed to enable clients to manage risk most effectively across the full FX lifecycle – whether through more efficient processing tools or market intelligence derived from the largest single source of FX executed data available to the market.

Our ambition to make a positive difference starts with our people. Our values underpin everything that we do at CLS and define our working environment:

- Pivotal purpose
- Trusted guardian
- Targeted innovation
- Facilitate connections
- Delivering excellence
- Inclusive culture
Role overview:

- Job title – Application Security Specialist
- Department – IT Security
- Level – Vice President
- Reports to – Director, Application Security
- Location – New Jersey
- Compensation – $140,000–$180,000 base salary + variable compensation + 401(k) match + benefits
We’re hiring an Application Security Specialist to help development teams build secure, resilient software. This is a hands-on AppSec role for someone who can interpret security findings, understand real-world application risk, and turn that insight into practical guidance for engineers.

This is not a DevSecOps tooling integration role: engineering teams own security tool integration, automation, and pipeline operation. Your focus will be on understanding the output of those tools, separating meaningful risk from noise, and partnering with developers to improve the security of the code we write.

What you’ll do:

- Analyse and validate findings from SAST, DAST, SCA, API security testing, AI-assisted analysis, penetration testing, and code reviews.
- Assess vulnerabilities in context, considering exploitability, business impact, compensating controls, and realistic application risk.
- Work closely with development teams to explain issues clearly, prioritise remediation, and support secure implementation choices.
- Lead or facilitate threat modelling, secure design reviews, and architecture risk reviews for new features, services, APIs, and platforms.
- Promote secure coding standards, reusable security patterns, and practical guidance that reduce recurring vulnerability themes.
- Provide AppSec subject-matter expertise to improve security testing, reporting, and SDLC processes without owning pipeline integration or tool administration.
What you’ll bring:

- Strong experience in application security, secure coding, secure-by-design practices, application security testing, and vulnerability management.
- Solid understanding of common application and API vulnerability classes, including the OWASP Top 10, and how to remediate them in modern software environments.
- Ability to read and reason about code well enough to validate findings, identify root causes, and discuss remediation options with developers.
- Experience with threat modelling, architecture risk reviews, secure design reviews, or similar AppSec activities.
- Practical knowledge of SAST, DAST, SCA, API security, secrets detection, and related testing approaches, with an emphasis on interpreting results rather than administering tools.
- Working knowledge of at least one programming language such as Java, Python, JavaScript, C#, or Go.
- Clear communication skills and the ability to translate security risk into practical guidance for engineering, product, and technology leadership audiences.
- Collaborative mindset, sound risk judgement, and a coaching style that helps development teams improve their security capability over time.

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