Senior AI Security Automation Architect

State Street; Kilkenny; Hybrid; EUR 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

State Street is seeking a Senior AI Security Automation Engineer to shape AI-powered security platforms. You will lead production-grade AI systems, agentic workflows, and secure automation at enterprise scale across AWS, Azure, and GCP, collaborating with Global Cyber Security and Infrastructure teams.

This role blends AI, cybersecurity, data engineering, and full-stack software development. You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and ensure safe AI operation with robust

Qualifications

• Master’s or bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, AI, data science, cybersecurity, or a related field.
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years developing AI, Machine Learning, or Generative AI solutions.
• Demonstrated success designing and deploying enterprise-scale applications and platforms.
• Experience developing cybersecurity, analytics, or operational intelligence solutions.

Responsibilities

• Drive the architecture and hands-on delivery of scalable, reliable agentic AI platforms for security workflows.
• Design and build production-grade AI systems including agents, skills, memory patterns, guardrails, and tool-use orchestration.
• Architect retrieval and context-engineering approaches including embeddings, semantic search, grounding, summarization, and prompt/version management.
• Engineer cloud-native AI services in AWS, Azure and GCP using containers and serverless patterns, event-driven messaging, and distributed data stores.
• Optimize platform performance across latency, throughput, scalability, caching, context efficiency, and cost controls.
• Build well-governed APIs and integrations that connect AI capabilities to security platforms, tools, and business processes.
• Establish evaluation, research, regression testing, and observability frameworks to continuously improve quality and agent behavior.
• Define engineering standards for reliability, security, and safe AI operation across the platform lifecycle.
• Mentor junior engineers and influence engineering direction through code reviews, architecture forums, and cross-team technical leadership.
• Leverages enterprise-authorized AI coding assist tools within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and productivity across complex deliverables (e.g., code generation/refactoring, unit test creation, documentation), while validating outputs through peer review, automated testing, and secure coding standards; contributes learnings and reusable patterns to improve broader team effectiveness.

Skills

AI security

Security automation

Cloud-native

Python

CI/CD

MLOps

Education

Bachelor's or Master in CS

Tools

LangGraph

Databricks

Snowflake

Kafka

Airflow

Jenkins

Spinnaker

Argo CD

Job description

State Street is seeking a Senior AI Security Automation Engineer to shape AI-powered security platforms. You will lead production-grade AI systems, agentic workflows, and secure automation at enterprise scale across AWS, Azure, and GCP, collaborating with Global Cyber Security and Infrastructure teams.

This role blends AI, cybersecurity, data engineering, and full-stack software development. You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and ensure safe AI operation with robust