Senior Application & AI Security Architect

State Street; Clifton (NJ); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Comprehensive benefits program

Paid time off

Job summary

State Street seeks 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 development lifecycles. The role emphasizes secure-by-design, Zero Trust, and AI security best practices.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Engineering, Data Science, or a related discipline.
• 14+ years of experience in application security, software engineering, security architecture, AI security, or related tech with at least 8 years in cybersecurity.
• Experience securing enterprise-scale applications across cloud, SaaS, hybrid, and on-prem environments.
• Deep expertise in SSDLC, OWASP Top 10, API security, secure coding, and app security testing methodologies.
• Strong understanding of AI/ML architectures, LLMs, RAG, agentic systems, model security, prompt security, and responsible AI principles.
• Experience with cloud-native tech, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and Infrastructure as Code.

Responsibilities

• Design and review secure architectures for enterprise applications, 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 applications, APIs, and AI solutions.
• Partner with development, cloud, AI engineering, and cybersecurity teams to embed security controls throughout lifecycles.
• Provide expertise in secure coding, app security testing, API security, authentication, authorization, AI security, and data protection.
• Assess security risks associated with applications, AI models, training data, prompts, agents, integrations, and third-party AI services.

Skills

Application security expertise

AI/ML security knowledge

Cloud-native security

Communication & stakeholder mgmt

Threat modeling

Education

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

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

IaC (Infrastructure as Code)

SAST/DAST/IAST

Job description

State Street seeks 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 development lifecycles. The role emphasizes secure-by-design, Zero Trust, and AI security best practices.