GenAI Security Architect — AI Safety & Data Guardrails

Genesis Digital Solutions; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work options

Professional development support

Job summary

Genesis Digital Solutions is seeking an AI Security Architect to support the Product Security team, with a focus on Data and AI. You will help ensure that AI and Generative AI solutions are designed, integrated, and deployed securely, translating AI security risks into practical technical requirements and enforceable controls.

The role combines strong cybersecurity with GenAI, LLM-based solutions, and Agentic concepts.

Qualifications

• Strong background in cybersecurity, especially Application Security, Product Security, Cloud Security, or Security Architecture.
• Understanding of Generative AI, LLM-based solutions, and their security and risk implications.
• Experience conducting security reviews, architecture assessments, and threat modelling.
• Experience defining and validating technical security controls.
• Knowledge of IAM, API security, secrets management, logging, monitoring, and auditability.
• Strong understanding of data protection, privacy, data minimisation, and the secure handling of sensitive or regulated information.
• Ability to translate AI security risks into clear, actionable technical requirements.
• Strong risk identification, prioritisation, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to challenge technical implementations and verify that security controls are effective.
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work with security, product, engineering, and data teams.
• A pragmatic approach focused on enforceable, measurable, and auditable security controls.

Responsibilities

• Review AI and GenAI use cases throughout the solution lifecycle, from initial design to production.
• Define security requirements for AI platforms, APIs, agents, tool usage, and system integrations.
• Conduct security architecture reviews, threat modelling, and technical security assessments of AI solutions.
• Identify and mitigate risks such as prompt injection, jailbreaks, sensitive information disclosure, data leakage, unsafe tool use, excessive agent autonomy, and insecure integrations.
• Assess AI deployments against security, privacy, logging, monitoring, and auditability requirements.
• Define security guardrails for the use of sensitive, personal, confidential, and regulated data.
• Review IAM, API security, secrets management, access controls, and least-privilege implementations.
• Validate logging, monitoring, audit trails, and evidence of control effectiveness.
• Contribute to AI security governance, technical standards, and secure-by-design patterns.
• Review AI integrations and agent architectures, including agent-to-tool interactions and trust boundaries.
• Collaborate with Product Security, cybersecurity, engineering, product, and data teams to ensure security controls are effectively implemented.
• Challenge technical designs and recommend practical measures to reduce AI-related security risks.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Application Security

Product Security

Cloud Security

Security Architecture

Generative AI

Threat Modelling

IAM

API Security

Secrets Management

Logging & Monitoring

Tools

AWS

Azure

Job description

Genesis Digital Solutions is seeking an AI Security Architect to support the Product Security team, with a focus on Data and AI. You will help ensure that AI and Generative AI solutions are designed, integrated, and deployed securely, translating AI security risks into practical technical requirements and enforceable controls.

The role combines strong cybersecurity with GenAI, LLM-based solutions, and Agentic concepts.