Architect Senior Specialist (Security and Application Architecture)

Vertage Inc.; Dearborn (MI); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Vertage Inc. in Dearborn, Michigan, is seeking an Architect Senior Specialist to lead enterprise security architecture across cloud, hybrid, and agentic AI environments, with a strong Zero Trust focus.

The role combines hands-on design of identity, API and workload access, data protection, and resilience with governance, standards and roadmaps to enable secure, scalable systems that meet business needs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in IT with security focus.
• 7+ years in cyber security or application solutions.
• Experience designing enterprise security architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-impact security designs covering identity, workload and API access, sensitive data, secure delivery, and operational resilience.
• Advance Zero Trust by turning cyber risk and policy into practical controls for cloud, hybrid, and agentic AI environments.
• Architect production agentic AI systems with scoped permissions, secure tool access, human oversight, evaluation, monitoring, and containment.
• Help define an AI-native software delivery lifecycle that builds security requirements, guardrails, and verification into normal engineering work.
• Create reusable reference architectures, patterns, and automated controls for teams to adopt.
• Use threat modeling and implementation evidence to find material risks, guide fixes, and inform architecture decisions.
• Set and approve architecture standards, blueprints, and roadmaps, and drive adherence through governance processes.
• Facilitate architecture discussions with business sponsors and product lines, and gain buy-in from business and IT leaders.

Skills

Enterprise security

Zero Trust

Cloud security

AI security

Security governance

SDLC security

Job description

Job title: Architect Senior Specialist (Security and Application Architecture)

Location: Fairlane North 1 (FN1), 6000 Mercury Drive, Dearborn, MI 48126

Duration: 67 days, with a target start of 12-OCT-2026 (morning shift)

Role Overview

This senior architect leads enterprise security architecture for cloud, hybrid, and agentic AI environments, with a strong Zero Trust focus. They turn security policy and cyber risk into reusable reference architectures, engineering patterns, and automated controls that delivery teams can adopt. The role also helps define an AI-native software delivery lifecycle with security built into everyday engineering workflows. It combines hands-on design (identity, API and workload access, sensitive data, resilience) with governance and stakeholder influence. The combination of security architecture and production agentic AI design is hard to find.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead high-impact security designs covering identity, workload and API access, sensitive data, secure delivery, and operational resilience.
• Advance Zero Trust by turning cyber risk and policy into practical controls for cloud, hybrid, and agentic AI environments.
• Architect production agentic AI systems with scoped permissions, secure tool access, human oversight, evaluation, monitoring, and containment.
• Help define an AI-native software delivery lifecycle that builds security requirements, guardrails, and verification into normal engineering work.
• Create reusable reference architectures, patterns, and automated controls for teams to adopt.
• Use threat modeling and implementation evidence to find material risks, guide fixes, and inform architecture decisions.
• Set and approve architecture standards, blueprints, and roadmaps, and drive adherence through governance processes.
• Facilitate architecture discussions with business sponsors and product lines, and gain buy-in from business and IT leaders.

Required Qualifications

Experience:

• 10+ years in IT
• 7+ years in the concentration area (Cyber Security and/or Application Solutions)

Technical Skills:

• Enterprise security architecture (hard to find)
• Zero Trust architecture
• Security for cloud and hybrid environments
• Secure, scalable, resilient application architecture for modernization
• Security architecture for agentic AI systems (hard to find)
• AI-native SDLC concepts (hard to find)
• Architecture artifacts and governance (blueprints, standards, roadmaps, reference architectures)

Preferred Qualifications

The requisition lists no preferred skills or experience.

• Security architecture certifications such as CISSP or CISSP-ISSAP (adjacent)
• Enterprise architecture frameworks and certifications such as TOGAF or SABSA (adjacent)
• Cloud security certifications from AWS, Azure, or GCP (adjacent)
• Automotive or manufacturing industry background (adjacent)
• DevSecOps and secure CI/CD pipeline experience (adjacent)