Senior Agentic AI Security Architect

Liberty Information Technology; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Liberty IT seeks a Senior Cybersecurity Architect for Agentic Engineering to define and apply security architectures across the lifecycle. You will work across cybersecurity, architecture and engineering to translate principles into practical patterns and influence secure adoption of agent-enabled software.

The role requires senior technical leadership, experience with enterprise-scale, cloud-native architectures, and collaboration with multiple teams to build secure agentic capabilities and

Qualifications

• Cybersecurity architecture for Agentic Engineering across the SDLC and runtime.
• Influence stakeholders to adopt secure approaches and translate security principles into practical patterns.
• Enterprise-scale cloud-native architectures and modern software/DevOps practices knowledge.
• Senior technical leadership in a multi-team, distributed environment.
• Experience architecting complex, scalable solutions and partnering with business stakeholders.
• Leadership, coaching and engineering excellence across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and apply cybersecurity architectures, controls and guardrails for AI agents and agent-enabled software development.
• Assess and address security risks across design, development, deployment and runtime.
• Apply security across the software development lifecycle, including tools, identities, data access, supply chain, testing, deployment, monitoring and incident response.
• Translate security principles into reusable engineering patterns, reference architectures and standards.
• Influence stakeholders to align on secure approaches for Agentic Engineering.
• Partner with engineering teams to integrate security controls into agentic workflows and development platforms.
• Identify adoption barriers and address them with stakeholders.
• Establish adoption milestones; monitor progress and communicate outcomes and lessons learned.
• Evaluate emerging threats, technologies and practices; recommend architectural responses.
• Advise on risks, trade-offs and control options for informed decisions.
• Collaborate to ensure security aligns with enterprise policies and architecture.
• Coach and advise practitioners to build secure Agentic Engineering capability.

Skills

Cybersecurity architecture

Secure adoption influence

Software/cloud-native architecture

Senior technical leadership

Complex solution architecture

Leadership & engineering excellence

Education

Degree in cybersecurity or CS/engineering

Job description

Liberty IT seeks a Senior Cybersecurity Architect for Agentic Engineering to define and apply security architectures across the lifecycle. You will work across cybersecurity, architecture and engineering to translate principles into practical patterns and influence secure adoption of agent-enabled software.

The role requires senior technical leadership, experience with enterprise-scale, cloud-native architectures, and collaboration with multiple teams to build secure agentic capabilities and