Application Security Architect – AI Harness

Information Technology Senior Management Forum; Tempe (AZ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

Edward Jones is hiring an Application Security Architect to lead hands-on design and integration of a CI/CD-aligned AI evaluation harness for secure source-code assessment. The role blends AppSec, DevSecOps, AI engineering, and secure SDLC governance aligned with financial-services compliance.

The candidate will architect the evaluation harness, integrate workflows with pipelines, maintain benchmarks and regression tests, and govern AI models and data protection, ensuring auditable and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field and 10+ years in app security, secure software engineering, DevSecOps, or related roles.
• Deep expertise in secure code review, vulnerability detection, threat modeling, and secure SDLC.
• Experience with vulnerability/penetration readouts and stakeholder communication.
• Hands-on with SAST, SCA, DAST, secrets scanning, API security testing, container security, and IaC scanning.
• Experience integrating security into SDLC tooling: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitHub Enterprise, Atlassian, and developer portals.

Responsibilities

• Architect the CI/CD-integrated AI secure-code evaluation harness for source code repositories and Secure SDLC lifecycles.
• Integrate evaluation workflows with pipeline tooling and AppSec reporting platforms.
• Design AI-assisted secure code review methods complementing SAST, SCA, DAST, and related scans.
• Maintain benchmarks, golden test cases, prompt/model versions, and regression tests for AI findings.
• Govern approved vendor and frontier AI models, including data-protection trade-offs.
• Define safeguards for proprietary production code, including access controls and evidence handling.
• Route validated findings into developer workflows with remediation guidance and feedback loops.
• Define metrics and control evidence aligned to governance, NIST, FINRA, SOX, GLBA frameworks.

Skills

Secure code review

Vulnerability detection

Threat modeling

SAST

SCA

DAST

Secrets scanning

API security testing

Container security

IaC scanning

DevSecOps tooling

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitHub Enterprise

LLMs for code review

Prompt engineering

RAG

Model evaluation

AI governance

Vendor governance

OWASP/NIST

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitHub Enterprise

Atlassian

Job description

Position Schedule: Full-Time

This job posting is anticipated to remain open for 30 days, from 17-Aug-2026. The posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

Team Overview:

The Application Security Architect, Agentic Secure Code Architect is a hands-on architecture-focused IC responsible for designing, integrating, maintaining, and improving a CI/CD-integrated AI evaluation harness used to assess application and infrastructure source code for security vulnerabilities and insecure-design practices. This role combines AppSec, DevSecOps, AI engineering, secure SDLC governance, and financial-services compliance, with strong emphasis on source-code protection, enterprise controls governance, repeatability, auditability, measurable risk reduction, and developer trust.

What You’ll Do:

• Architect the CI/CD-integrated AI secure-code evaluation harness as a hands-on IC for source code repositories and Secure SDLC lifecycles.
• Integrate evaluation workflows with pipeline tooling and AppSec reporting platforms.
• Design AI-assisted secure code review methods that complement SAST, SCA, DAST, secrets scanning, IaC scanning, threat modeling, security testing, and manual assessments.
• Maintain benchmarks, golden test cases, prompt/model versions, retrieval configurations, scoring criteria, and regression tests for AI-generated findings.
• Govern approved vendor and frontier AI models, including selection, routing, fallback patterns, accuracy, explainability, cost, and data-protection trade-offs.
• Define safeguards for proprietary production code, including access controls, approved model endpoints, minimization, retention limits, secure logging, and evidence handling.
• Route validated findings into developer workflows with actionable remediation guidance and feedback loops to reduce false positives and improve adoption.
• Define metrics and control evidence aligned to internal governance processes, financial services industries authorities, and cyber security frameworks (NIST SSDF, NIST CSF 2.0, NYDFS, FINRA, SOX ITGC, FFIEC, GLBA).

Edward Jones’ compensation and benefits package includes medical and prescription drug, dental, vision, voluntary benefits (such as accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness), short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage. Short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage are provided at no cost to associates. Edward Jones offers a 401k retirement plan, and tax-advantaged accounts: health savings account, and flexible spending account. Edward Jones observes ten paid holidays and provides 15 days of vacation for new associates beginning on January 1 of each year, as well as sick time, personal days, and a paid day for volunteerism. Associates may be eligible for bonuses and profit sharing. All associates are eligible for the firm’s Employee Assistance Program. For more information on the Benefits available to Edward Jones associates, please visit our benefits page.

Hiring Minimum:

$120000

Hiring Maximum:

$204300

What Experience You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in application security, secure software engineering, DevSecOps, security architecture, or related cybersecurity roles.
• Deep expertise in secure code review, vulnerability detection, threat modeling, exploitability analysis, and secure SDLC practices.
• Experience with performing vulnerability and penetration test readouts/walkthroughs with stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience with SAST, SCA, DAST, secrets scanning, API security testing, container security, infrastructure-as-code scanning, and developer workflow integrations.
• Experience integrating security capabilities into SDLC pipeline tooling: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitHub Enterprise, Atlassian, developer portals, source-control workflows, and DevSecOps toolchains.
• Practical experience using LLMs or AI models for code review, software engineering, vulnerability research, security analysis, or developer productivity use cases.
• Understanding of prompt engineering and optimization, RAG, model evaluation, AI guardrails, human-in-the-loop review, prompt/model versioning, and vendor/open-source model trade-offs.
• Experience designing or maintaining evaluation harnesses, benchmark suites, regression tests, validation pipelines, and test orchestration workflows.
• Strong understanding of concepts: OWASP, CWE, CVSS, NIST SSDF, AI security risks, regulated source-code handling, auditability, and vendor/model governance.

What Could Set You Apart:

• Master’s degree or relevant certifications such as CISSP, CSSLP, OSWE, GWAPT, CCSP, cloud security, Kubernetes security, or AI governance certifications.
• Experience delivering AI-assisted AppSec capabilities in a Fortune 500 or highly regulated financial services environment.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise AI platforms, approved vendor models, open-source models, secure hosting, RAG, and AI governance controls.
• Experience building secure code review automation, custom static analysis rules, vulnerability detection pipelines, benchmark datasets, or AI-based developer tooling.
• Demonstrated success reducing AppSec risk through improved detection accuracy, lower false positives, faster remediation, and stronger developer enablement.

**Candidates that live within a commutable distance from our Tempe, AZ and St. Louis, MO home office locations are expected to work in the office four days per week effective June 1, 2026. Before June 1, 2026, candidates that live within a commutable distance from our Tempe, AZ and St. Louis, MO home office locations are expected to work in the office three days per week, with preference for Tuesday through Thursday.**