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At Modus Create, we help organizations build modern platforms and products with confidence. As Senior Director of Security Engineering, you will lead and scale our Security Engineering capability—owning its vision, maturity, and impact across client delivery, internal operations, and long-term growth. This role blends strategic leadership, deep technical credibility, and a consulting mindset, ensuring security is embedded into how we design, build, ship, and operate modern systems. You will guide Directors and senior practitioners, shape security strategy across platforms and products, and serve as a trusted advisor to executives, clients, and internal partners. This role reports to a VP of Product Engineering Services and works closely with engineering, platform, delivery, sales, and operations leadership.
Job Responsibility:
Embed Security into Modern Delivery: Integrate security into development workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code
Drive shift-left security practices in partnership with platform and product teams
Ensure security tooling and controls enable delivery velocity rather than block it
Promote secure-by-design patterns across cloud-native and platform environments
Deliver Trusted, Secure Systems: Lead threat modeling, vulnerability management, and remediation planning across engagements
Guide incident readiness, root cause analysis, and systemic risk reduction
Ensure security risks are clearly articulated, prioritized, and addressed
Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term security posture
Lead & Grow Security Teams: Lead, mentor, and develop Directors and senior security practitioners
Set clear expectations around ownership, quality, and professional growth
Build leadership depth and succession to support scale
Foster a culture of trust, accountability, and continuous learning
Shape Security Strategy & Best Practices: Define and evolve security standards, frameworks, and reusable patterns
Establish best practices for application, cloud, and platform security
Ensure practices scale appropriately across clients and maturity levels
Continuously improve security craft based on real delivery feedback
Business Development & Client Advisory: Partner with Sales and Delivery to shape security-led solutions and proposals
Serve as a senior security advisor in client conversations, workshops, and reviews
Help position Modus as a trusted security and engineering partner
Contribute to pipeline growth through solutioning and executive credibility
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Engineering, Platform, Product, and Operations leaders
Align security strategy with broader technical and delivery priorities
Influence organizational practices around secure development and reliability
Strengthen collaboration across capabilities to deliver cohesive outcomes
Requirements:
15+ years in security, software, or systems engineering roles
7+ years leading senior security engineers, managers, or Directors—ideally in global, distributed, or consulting environments
Hands-on experience with modern security engineering across application, cloud, and platform environments, including secure SDLC, CI/CD security, infrastructure-as-code, and threat modeling
Proven success supporting pre-sales, solutioning, and growing security-led engagements within enterprise or mid-market accounts
Demonstrated ability to build scalable security practices, uplift team capabilities, and develop high-performing, inclusive security engineering teams
Strong empathy for client risk, constraints, and delivery realities, with the ability to translate security needs into pragmatic, measurable outcomes
Effective across technical, executive, and cross-functional settings, with the ability to clearly articulate risk, tradeoffs, and recommendations to diverse stakeholders
Modus Global Office Program: on-demand access to private offices, meeting rooms, coworking spaces and business lounges in locations in over 120 countries
Employee Referral Program
Client Referral Program
Travel according to client or team needs
The chance to work side-by-side with thought leaders in emerging tech