Director, Security Architecture & Threat Modeling

  At Varicent, we’re not just transforming the Sales Performance Management (SPM) market—we’re redefining how organizations achieve revenue success. Our cutting-edge SaaS solutions empower revenue leaders globally to design smarter go-to-market strategies, maximize seller performance, and unlock untapped potential. Varicent stands at the forefront of innovation, celebrated as a market leader in the 2025 Forrester Wave Report for SPM, 2023 Ventana Research Revenue Performance Management (RPM) Value Index, Gartner Peer Insights, 2024 Gartner SPM Market Guide, and G2. Our solutions are trusted by a diverse range of global industry leaders like T-Mobile, ServiceNow, Wawanesa Bank, Shaw Industries, Moody's, Stryker and hundreds more. Here’s why you’ll thrive at Varicent: Innovate with Purpose: Build impactful solutions for customers worldwide. Join Excellence: Work in a diverse, collaborative, and innovative team. Shape the Future: Lead in redefining revenue optimization. Grow Together: Unlock your potential in a supportive environment. Join us at Varicent—where your talent and ambition meet limitless opportunities for success!About the Role  We're looking for a hands-on and strategic Director, Application Security Architecture & Threat Modeling to help shape secure-by-design principles across our SaaS platforms, cloud environments, and AI-enabled products.  In this role, you'll partner closely with Engineering, Product, Cloud Operations, Architecture, AI, and Security teams to embed security early in the development lifecycle. You'll lead application security architecture, threat modeling, secure design reviews, and AI security initiatives while helping teams build scalable, resilient, and secure solutions.  This is a highly visible leadership role reporting directly to the VP & Chief Information Security Officer.    What You'll Do  Lead Security Architecture & Secure-by-Design  Define and execute the Security Architecture and Security-by-Design strategy and roadmap.   Establish secure reference architectures, design standards, and security patterns for cloud-native and AI-enabled solutions.   Partner with Engineering and Product teams to embed security into development workflows and system design decisions.   Drive adoption of secure-by-design best practices by embedding security requirements in epics, user stories and the AI SLDC.  Drive Threat Modeling & Risk Analysis  Produce actionable threat modeling artifacts including data flow diagrams, trust boundary analysis, abuse cases, attack paths, security requirements, technical specifications, design risks, remediation actions, and residual risk documentation. Analyze recurring vulnerabilities, penetration test results, incident learnings, and security assessment findings to identify systemic design flaws and improve secure architecture standards. ...