Senior Cybersecurity Architect – Agentic Engineering
Liberty IT2 days ago
Galway, Ireland or Dublin, IrelandSenior
Responsibilities
- Define and apply cybersecurity architectures, controls, and guardrails for AI agents and agent-enabled software development.
- Assess and address security risks across agentic system design, development, deployment, and runtime.
- Apply security approaches across development tools, agent integrations, identities and permissions, data access, software supply chains, testing, deployment, monitoring, and incident response.
- Translate security requirements into reusable engineering patterns, reference architectures, standards, and guidance.
- Influence cybersecurity, architecture, and engineering stakeholders to adopt secure agentic approaches.
- Partner with engineering teams to integrate usable security controls into agentic workflows and development platforms.
- Establish implementation plans and adoption milestones, monitor progress, and communicate outcomes, risks, and lessons learned.
- Evaluate emerging threats, technologies, and practices relevant to AI agents and recommend architectural responses.
- Advise stakeholders on security risks, trade-offs, and control options while balancing business needs and engineering usability.
- Coach and mentor cybersecurity and engineering practitioners and build secure Agentic Engineering capability.
Requirements
- Proven experience assessing risks and applying security architectures, controls, and guardrails for AI agents and agent-enabled software development across the lifecycle and runtime.
- Proven experience influencing cybersecurity, architecture, and engineering stakeholders and translating security principles into practical engineering patterns.
- In-depth experience with enterprise-scale software engineering, modern software, DevOps, and cloud architectures.
- Experience designing and leading complex enterprise architectures and solutions across multiple technologies and processing environments.
- Extensive senior technical leadership experience across multiple teams or programs in complex, multi-platform distributed environments.
- Experience partnering with business stakeholders to define technology strategies and deliver scalable solutions using a product mindset.
- Extensive leadership, coaching, and mentoring experience, including engineering excellence practices across multiple teams.
- Knowledge of identity and access management, least privilege, secrets management, data protection, software supply-chain security, threat modelling, secure-by-design practices, monitoring, and incident response.
- Experience developing reference architectures, security standards, reusable patterns, or engineering guardrails.
- Experience working across organizational boundaries and communicating security concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Relevant degree or professional qualifications in cybersecurity, computer science, software engineering, or a related discipline.
Benefits
- Liberty IT is recognized as a Great Place to Work in the UK and Ireland and among the Best Workplaces for Women in the UK in 2025.
- The company is described as a Top 5 Best Tech Workplace and has a Centre of Excellence in Wellbeing.
- Equal-opportunity employment with accommodations available for candidates with disabilities during recruitment, assessment, and selection.
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About Liberty IT
Liberty IT designs and delivers software, cloud services, and data platforms for Liberty Mutual Insurance’s global business. The Belfast‑headquartered company acts as the insurer’s technology arm, building customer portals, underwriting and claims systems, and internal developer platforms, increasingly using AWS and AI. With more than 25 years’ experience and teams in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, it develops products used across Liberty Mutual’s international insurance markets.