Senior Architect: Zero-Trust Security & AI 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

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.