AI Security Architecture, VP
State Street1 day ago
Base Salary
$120k - $218k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define the enterprise AI security architecture strategy, roadmap, target-state design, reference architectures, technical standards, guardrails, reusable patterns, and exception processes.
- Lead secure architecture design for AI systems, including data pipelines, model access, APIs, agents, retrieval-augmented generation, orchestration layers, and AI-enabled applications.
- Conduct architecture and design reviews, AI-focused threat modeling, technical risk assessments, and secure-by-design reviews for complex or high-risk initiatives.
- Translate AI threats and regulatory expectations into security requirements, control designs, mitigation strategies, compensating controls, and risk-based architecture decisions.
- Partner with Engineering, Product Security, Platform, Cloud, Application, Data, Risk, Compliance, Audit, and business leaders on AI security priorities and design issues.
- Embed AI security controls into software development, DevSecOps, model development, deployment, validation, monitoring, and incident response workflows.
- Establish assurance and validation criteria for AI platforms, pipelines, models, third-party services, developer tools, and business-led AI use cases.
- Advise governance forums and senior leadership on technical risk, architecture options, residual exposure, investment priorities, and recommended decisions.
- Support risk, audit, compliance, and incident management through architecture documentation, control evidence, residual-risk records, and remediation plans.
- Mentor architects and security practitioners while building organizational capability and improving AI security architecture practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or a related discipline is required; an advanced degree is preferred.
- At least 10 years of progressive cybersecurity experience, including significant experience in security architecture, application security, product security, cloud security, or security engineering.
- Extensive technical leadership experience across security architecture, secure design, application security, cloud security, product security, data protection, and modern engineering practices.
- Deep practical understanding of AI and machine learning architectures, generative AI, large language models, model and data pipelines, APIs, cloud-native platforms, and AI security risks.
- Experience leading architecture reviews, threat modeling, technical risk assessments, and secure-by-design programs in large, complex, regulated enterprises.
- Ability to set architecture direction, lead complex cross-functional decisions, develop scalable security requirements and controls, and provide executive recommendations.
- Strong executive communication, collaboration, influencing, judgment, problem-solving, and risk-reduction skills.
- Experience mentoring senior practitioners, establishing architecture governance, driving adoption of enterprise standards, securing enterprise-scale platforms and applications, and communicating technical risk to senior leadership.
- CISSP, CCSP, CSSLP, cloud security, architecture, or comparable industry certifications are preferred.
- Ability to coordinate across global teams and time zones, support high-priority architecture, risk, audit, and incident activities, and manage sensitive information.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement subject to company and location-specific requirements, with standard business hours and flexibility for global stakeholders and critical needs.
- Retirement savings plan with company match and insurance coverage including life, medical, dental, vision, and long-term disability.
- Paid time off including vacation, sick leave, short-term disability, and family care leave, plus an Employee Assistance Program.
- Eligibility for incentive compensation, annual performance-based awards, and certain tax-advantaged savings plans.
- Inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and employee networks.
- Travel may be required based on business needs.
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About State Street
State Street is a global custodian bank and asset manager serving institutional investors with investment servicing, fund accounting, trading/FX, data, and index/active strategies. Its products include State Street Global Advisors’ funds and ETFs, the Charles River Investment Management Solution, and the front-to-back State Street Alpha platform. Founded in 1792 and headquartered in Boston, the company is publicly traded on the NYSE (ticker: STT) and operates across major markets worldwide.