Director, Application Security and Vulnerability Management

Come make your difference in communities across Canada, where authenticity, trust and making connections is valued – as we shape the future of Canadian retail, together. Our unique position as one of the country's largest employers, coupled with our commitment to positively impact the lives of all Canadians, provides our colleagues a range of opportunities and experiences to help Canadians Live Life Well®.

At Loblaw Companies Limited, we succeed through collaboration and commitment and set a high bar for ourselves and those around us. Whether you are just starting your career, re-entering the workforce, or looking for a new job, this is where you belong.

Come make your difference in communities across Canada, where authenticity, trust and making connections are valued - as we shape the future of Canadian retail, together. Our unique position as one of the country's largest employers, coupled with our commitment to positively impact the lives of all Canadians, provides our colleagues a range of opportunities and experiences to help Canadians Live Life Well®.

At Loblaw Companies Limited, we succeed through collaboration and commitment and set a high bar for ourselves and those around us. Whether you are just starting your career, re-entering the workforce, or looking for a new challenge, this is where you belong.

Does leading application security and vulnerability management across one of Canada's largest and most complex technology ecosystems excite you? Loblaw Technology supports corporate offices, stores, pharmacies, distribution centres, digital commerce, SaaS platforms, APIs, and multi-cloud environments. This role will lead the strategy, engineering, and operating model that helps teams build secure software and remediate risk at enterprise scale.

Come lead a team that values diverse ideas, embeds practical security into engineering workflows, and develops our talent from within. You will help modernize application security and vulnerability management, enable secure innovation, and make a measurable difference to customers, colleagues, and business operations.

What You'll Do

• Lead Loblaw's enterprise Application Security and Vulnerability Management strategy, architecture, engineering, and operations across applications, APIs, cloud workloads, endpoints, servers, containers, and infrastructure.
• Own the secure SDLC and DevSecOps control model, integrating SAST, DAST, SCA, API security, secret detection, container scanning, and infrastructure-as-code scanning into GitLab Ultimate and enterprise CI/CD workflows.
• Establish risk-based security gates at commit, merge, build, test, and release stages, with clear thresholds, exception governance, developer guidance, and remediation requirements.
• Build an application-level DAST and API Security coverage model that maps business applications to repositories, microservices, deployed URLs, environments, API specifications, authentication flows, and accountable owners.
• Lead the enterprise vulnerability management lifecycle, including asset discovery, scan coverage, validation, deduplication, risk prioritization, remediation service levels, exceptions, retesting, and verified closure.
• Create a unified exposure view that connects vulnerabilities to internet exposure, attack paths, identities, business services, and asset criticality, giving engineering teams and executives clear, actionable risk information.
• Own the roadmap and reliable operation of platforms such as GitLab Ultimate, Cortex Cloud / Prisma Cloud, Qualys, API security, attack surface management, and exposure management capabilities.
• Establish security patterns for AI-enabled software, generative AI, models, agents, and AI-assisted development; address prompt injection, sensitive-data leakage, insecure tool use, and model or agent supply-chain risk.
• Partner with product, development, SRE, cloud, infrastructure, identity, network, data, privacy, SOC, risk, and audit teams to threat model designs, remediate vulnerabilities, respond to events, and provide control evidence.
• Lead and develop application security engineers, vulnerability analysts, product owners, and platform specialists; manage budgets, vendors, services, roadmaps, automation, runbooks, succession, and two-deep coverage.

What You'll Bring

• Proven progressive experience in application security, product security, vulnerability management, cloud security, DevSecOps, or cybersecurity engineering, including leading technical teams or major programs.
• Demonstrated success leading application security and vulnerability management in a large, complex enterprise, ideally within retail, healthcare, financial services, telecommunications, or another regulated environment.
• Deep expertise in secure SDLC and DevSecOps, including threat modeling, SAST, DAST, SCA, API se