Senior App Security Architect - AI & Cloud Native

State Street; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K match

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Paid time off

Volunteer days

Job summary

State Street is seeking a Senior Application Security Architect to design, review, and govern security architectures for enterprise apps, APIs, cloud-native platforms, and AI-enabled systems. You will partner with software engineering, data science, cloud engineering, cybersecurity, and business teams to embed security across the software and AI lifecycles.

The role emphasizes secure-by-design, Zero Trust, and DevSecOps practices across cloud, SaaS, hybrid, and on-prem environments, with

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Engineering, Data Science, or related field.
• 14+ years in application security, software engineering, security architecture, AI security, or related tech with 8+ years hands-on cybersecurity preferred.
• Experience securing enterprise-scale apps across cloud, SaaS, hybrid, and on-prem environments.
• SSDLC, OWASP Top 10, API security, secure coding practices, and app security testing methods.

Responsibilities

• Design and review secure architectures for enterprise apps, APIs, cloud-native platforms, and AI-enabled systems.
• Define and maintain application security and AI security standards, architecture patterns, and security requirements.
• Conduct security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and design assessments for apps, APIs, and AI solutions.
• Partner with development, cloud, AI, and cybersecurity teams to embed security controls throughout lifecycles.
• Provide SME expertise in secure coding, app security testing, API security, authentication, authorization, AI security, and data protection.
• Assess security risks related to apps, AI models, data, prompts, agents, integrations, and third-party AI services.
• Drive secure-by-design, Zero Trust, DevSecOps, and AI security best practices enterprise-wide.
• Evaluate emerging app and AI security threats, technologies, and industry standards.

Skills

Application security

Secure software development

AI security

Cloud-native security

Threat modeling

Zero Trust

DevSecOps

API security

Communication

Stakeholder management

Education

Degree in CS / Cybersecurity / IT / Eng / Data Science

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

IaC (Infrastructure as Code)

SAST/DAST/IAST

API security testing

Job description

State Street is seeking a Senior Application Security Architect to design, review, and govern security architectures for enterprise apps, APIs, cloud-native platforms, and AI-enabled systems. You will partner with software engineering, data science, cloud engineering, cybersecurity, and business teams to embed security across the software and AI lifecycles.

The role emphasizes secure-by-design, Zero Trust, and DevSecOps practices across cloud, SaaS, hybrid, and on-prem environments, with