Applied AI Security Architect

anthropic; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking an Applied AI Security Architect to serve as the trusted security expert for enterprise customers across EMEA. The role focuses on security, compliance, networking, and data architecture in pre-sales and deployment discussions.

You will engage with CISOs and security leaders to address regulatory and data protection concerns, while collaborating with product and engineering teams to shape secure deployment of Claude models. Travel across EMEA is expected.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in enterprise security or cloud architecture, with experience in EMEA.
• Strong knowledge of GDPR and EU AI Act as it applies to enterprise security.
• Experience with compliance frameworks for European financial services and insurers.
• Proven track record leading engagements with CISOs and security teams at large enterprises.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary security and compliance expert in customer engagements, addressing technical questions about architecture, data flows, encryption, access controls, and deployment models.
• Partner with CISOs, security architects, compliance teams, and DPOs to understand security requirements and design solutions that meet European standards.
• Lead technical deep-dives on network architecture, data residency, data retention, cross-border transfers, API security, and audit logging for regulated environments.
• Support enterprise security reviews and due diligence with detailed technical documentation and guidance.
• Guide customers through EU AI Act readiness, DORA, and NIS2, positioning Anthropic in the European market.
• Collaborate with Sales and Applied AI teams from initial conversations through deployment.
• Develop security-focused collateral and reference architectures for regulated industries.
• Travel regularly across EMEA for security workshops and architecture reviews.

Skills

Enterprise security

Cloud architecture

Pre-sales experience

Regulated industries

CISOs engagement

API security

Data protection

GDPR knowledge

Job description

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role:

As an Applied AI Security Architect, you will serve as Anthropic's trusted security expert for our most demanding enterprise customers. You'll engage directly with CISOs, security architects, compliance officers, and technical leaders at the largest financial institutions, insurers, and other highly regulated enterprises across EMEA to address their most critical questions about deploying Claude safely and securely — including the security capabilities of our latest generations of Claude models.

This is a pre-sales technical role focused on security, compliance, networking, and data architecture. Your job is to walk into a room full of security professionals and demonstrate deep expertise in enterprise security, regulatory compliance, and data protection.

Whether you've been a Security Architect, Solutions Architect, Field CTO, or senior pre-sales engineer, what matters is that you understand how large European institutions evaluate and adopt technology, and can speak credibly to their security and compliance concerns. This is a senior role: you will own our most complex and escalated security conversations in the region, often as the decisive technical voice in front of a CISO.

We are looking for someone excited to help define how European enterprises should think about security and compliance in the age of AI. How do MCP, autonomous agents, and RBAC work together? How do you deploy frontier models in line with GDPR, EU data residency, and the EU AI Act? If working at the intersection of AI adoption and regulated industries excites you, this is the role for you.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary security and compliance expert in customer engagements, addressing technical questions about Claude's architecture, data flows, encryption, access controls, and deployment models.
• Partner with CISOs, security architects, compliance teams, and DPOs to understand their security requirements and design solutions that meet European regulatory standards (GDPR, EU AI Act, DORA, NIS2, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and national regulator expectations).
• Lead technical deep-dives on network architecture, EU data residency, data retention and Zero Data Retention (ZDR) policies, cross-border data transfers, API security, authentication/authorization, audit logging, and integration patterns for regulated environments.
• Support enterprise security reviews, vendor assessments, and due diligence with detailed technical documentation and expert guidance.
• Guide customers through EU AI Act readiness, DORA, and NIS2, and position Anthropic within the European competitive landscape.
• Collaborate with Sales and Applied AI teams from initial conversations through deployment.
• Partner closely with Anthropic’s product and engineering teams to understand Claude's security capabilities, relay customer feedback, and influence the roadmap.
• Develop security-focused collateral, reference architectures, and best practices for regulated industries.
• Travel regularly across EMEA for security workshops, architecture reviews, and strategic account meetings.

You may be a good fit if you have:

• 7+ years of experience in enterprise security, cloud architecture, or technical pre-sales, with significant exposure to regulated industries in EMEA (financial services, insurance, healthcare).
• Deep technical knowledge of enterprise security concepts: network security, identity and access management, encryption (at rest and in transit), API security, and audit/logging requirements.
• Deep working knowledge of GDPR (data residency, data retention and Zero Data Retention, international transfers, DPIAs) and strong familiarity with the EU AI Act as it applies to foundation models.
• Experience navigating compliance frameworks relevant to European financial services and insurance (DORA, NIS2, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and national regulators' guidance on AI/ML such as FCA/PRA, BaFin, ACPR, FINMA).
• A track record of leading complex, high-stakes engagements with CISOs, security teams, and compliance officers at large European enterprises.
• Strong understanding