AI Security Architect - Vice President
State Street · Posted Oct 5
Investment servicing, custody, asset management, and trading solutions for institutional investors
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About the role
Global Cybersecurity (GCS) protects State Street and its clients from the impact of cyber-attacks through a robust, continuously evolving cybersecurity program and control environment, with Fusion & Security Operations (F&SO) providing real-time knowledge of cyber threats. The AI Security Architect is a hands-on technical role responsible for designing, implementing, and reviewing security controls for AI, machine learning, and generative AI solutions across State Street’s technology environment. The role partners closely with engineering, product security, and platform teams to help ensure AI capabilities are delivered securely, responsibly, and in alignment with regulatory requirements.
What you will do
- Contribute to the design and implementation of secure architecture patterns for AI/ML and Generative AI systems, including data pipelines, model access, and AI-enabled applications.
- Support the development and documentation of AI security standards, reference architectures, and guardrails.
- Participate in architecture and design reviews for AI-related initiatives, providing security guidance under senior architect direction.
- Partner with engineering teams to ensure security requirements are considered early in solution design.
- Perform AI-focused threat modeling for AI services, models, and data flows.
- Identify security risks such as data leakage, prompt injection, insecure model access, OSS vulnerabilities, and misuse scenarios.
- Work with senior architects and security partners to recommend appropriate mitigations and compensating controls.
- Support integration of AI security controls into software development and DevSecOps workflows.
- Assist in defining security requirements and validation checks for AI pipelines and platforms.
- Help develop repeatable patterns and templates that enable teams to adopt AI securely with less friction.
- Assist with security reviews for emerging AI capabilities, including GenAI tools, internal AI services, and developer productivity use cases.
- Stay informed on AI security trends, tooling, and common risk patterns through research and internal knowledge sharing.
- Contribute ideas and observations on improving AI security practices across the organization.
- Ensure AI security designs align with internal policies and external standards (e.g., NIST, ISO, FFIEC concepts).
- Support audit, risk, and compliance efforts by helping document architecture decisions and controls.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Participate in post-incident reviews and action tracking for AI-related security events.
- Work closely with security engineering, product security, platform, and data teams to resolve AI security concerns.
- Communicate technical risks and recommendations clearly to engineering audiences.
- Escalate complex or high-risk issues to senior architects with supporting analysis and options.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or a related field.
- 5–7 years of experience in application security, product security, cloud security, or security engineering roles.
- Experience securing cloud-native applications or platforms in an enterprise environment.
- Exposure to AI/ML or data-driven systems, including model usage, APIs, or analytics platforms.
- Familiarity with secure software development practices and DevSecOps concepts.
- Solid technical fundamentals in security architecture and secure design.
- Curiosity and willingness to learn in a rapidly evolving AI security landscape.
- Ability to break down risks and communicate them clearly to engineers.
- Collaborative, execution-focused mindset.
- Comfortable working with guidance while progressively taking on more responsibility.
Preferred qualifications
- Relevant security or cloud certifications are a plus.
- Experience working in or with regulated environments preferred.
Benefits and support
- Flexible work-life support
- Paid volunteer days
- Employee networks
About State Street
State Street Corporation is a leading global financial services holding company providing institutional investors with investment servicing, investment management, and investment research and trading. Operating in more than 100 geographic markets worldwide, the company manages and administers trillions of dollars in assets through its core divisions like State Street Global Advisors and State Street Alpha. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, it traces its origins back to 1792.
- Industry
- Financial Services
- Company size
- 51000+ employees
- Founded
- 1792-06-25
- Location
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
John Woods
Chief Financial Officer
Mostapha Tahiri
President of State Street Alpha & Chairman of Asia Pacific
Ann Fogarty
Enterprise Chief Operating Officer
President and Chief Executive Officer of State Street Investment Management
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