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Application Security Management

Career Explorer · Cybersecurity, Privacy & Trust · Application Security

Manager

Individual contributor route

Technical or professional depth, without managing people.

This family has no individual-contributor ladder.

Management route

Managing people. It is not the step above the individual route: it is a different job and asks for different evidence.

  1. Supervisor / Team Lead, Application SecurityM0Optional frontline layer
  2. Manager, Application SecurityM1
  3. Senior Manager, Application SecurityM2
  4. Director, Application SecurityM3
  5. Senior Director, Application SecurityM4
  6. AVP / Head of Application SecurityM5Optional executive layer
  7. Vice President, Application SecurityM6
  8. Senior Vice President, Application SecurityM7

Source: SFIA; PMI; Microsoft Careers