Senior Engineer - GenAI Security

Bank of America; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 122,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary incentive eligible

Benefits eligible

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking a senior security engineering leader in New Jersey to define and drive the GenAI platform security and end-to-end feature delivery. You will set the technology stack, enable CI/CD, and guide cross‑functional teams on secure design and performance practices.

The role emphasizes threat modeling, data protection, and risk assessment across distributed cloud-native platforms, with responsibilities spanning architecture, API security, and governance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in cybersecurity, security architecture, or platform security engineering.
• Strong expertise in IAM, OAuth2, mTLS; API security, gateway enforcement, and zero-trust design.
• Threat modeling and risk assessment.
• Designing and securing distributed, cloud-native platforms and multi-tenant systems.
• Data protection, encryption, and access control principles; auditability and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Defines and leads the engineering approach for complex features to deliver business outcomes.
• Defines technology tool stack and evaluates/testing frameworks for teams.
• Enables CI/CD capabilities and collaborates with stakeholders on CI/CD efficiency.
• Guides design and best practices for high code performance; code reviews, pairing.
• Delivers end-to-end complex features across teams and programs.
• Conducts research, prototyping, and exploration of new toolsets for release management and CI/CD.
• Collaborates with stakeholders to establish solution needs and works with architects on requirements.
• Defines and implements AI guardrails and safety controls; security architecture for GenAI platform.
• Leads threat modeling and risk assessment for GenAI systems; enforces data security controls.

Skills

Automation

Influence

Result Orientation

Stakeholder Management

Technical Strategy Development

Application Development

Architecture

Business Acumen

Risk Management

Solution Design

Agile Practices

Analytical Thinking

Collaboration

Data Management

Solution Delivery Process

Education

Bachelor Degree or Equivalent

Job description

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates' physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits.

We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in‑office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in‑office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role‑specific responsibilities and business needs.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Job Description:

This job is responsible for defining and leading the engineering approach for complex features to deliver significant business outcomes. Key responsibilities of the job include delivering complex features and technology, enabling development efficiencies, providing technical thought leadership based on conducting multiple software implementations, and applying both depth and breadth in a number of technical competencies. Additionally, this job is accountable for end‑to‑end solution design and delivery.

Job Profile Summary:

Global Markets GenAI Technology is a fast‑growing global team with locations in New York City, Charlotte, London, and India. Generative AI presents an exciting opportunity to derive valuable insights from data and drive revenue growth, efficiencies, and improved business processes. Global Markets GenAI Technology will collaborate with Global Markets Sales & Trading, Quantitative Strategies & Data Group (QSDG) & Platform teams to the design and buildout global generative AI platform.

The platform will cater to a rapidly growing number of use cases that harness the power of Generative AI. Both proprietary and open‑source Large Language Models, and large structured and un‑structured data sets will be leveraged to produce insights for Global Markets and its clients.

Responsibilities:

• Ensures that the design and engineering approach for complex features are consistent with the larger portfolio solution
• Define the technology tool stack for the solution and evaluate and adapt new testing tool/framework/practices for team(s)
• Enables team(s)/applications with Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) capabilities and engages with other technical stakeholders pertaining to efficient functioning of CI-CD pipeline
• Guides and influences team(s) on design and best practices for high code performance -e.g. pairing, code reviews
• Provides end‑to‑end delivery of complex features, including automation, for either a single team or multiple teams, at the program level
• Conducts research, design prototyping and other exploration activities such as evaluating new toolsets and components for release management, CI/CD, and features
• Works with stakeholders to establish high‑level solution needs and with architects for technical requirements
• Define and implement the security architecture for the GenAI platform
• Design and enforce identity and access control models
• Establish secure API and tool invocation patterns
• Define and implement AI guardrails and safety controls
• Lead threat modeling and risk assessment for GenAI systems
• Design and enforce RAG and data security controls

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years in cybersecurity, security architecture, or platform security engineering
• Strong expertise in:
  • Identity and access management (IAM), OAuth2, mTLS
  • API security, gateway enforcement, and zero‑trust design
  • Threat modeling and risk assessment
• Proven experience designing and securing:
  • Distributed, cloud‑native platforms
  • Multi‑tenant systems with strict data access controls
• Strong understanding of:
  • Data protection, encryption, and access control principles
  • Auditability, logging, and compliance frameworks
• Familiarity with:
  • Observability and detection engineering (SIEM, anomaly detection)
  • Attack vectors and security risks in modern application architectures

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with GenAI / AI/ML security, including:
  • Prompt injection and adversarial attacks
  • Data leakage and model misuse risks
  • Guardrails and safety evaluation frameworks
• Experience securing:
  • RAG architectures, vector databases, and retrieval pipelines
  • Agent‑based or multi‑agent systems
• Experience in regulated environments (financial services strongly preferred)
• Familiarity with:
  • OWASP LLM / agentic security risks
  • Model governance, lineage, and compliance metadata

Skills:

• Automation
• Influence
• Result Orientation
• Stakeholder Management
• Technical Strategy Development
• Application Development
• Architecture
• Business Acumen
• Risk Management
• Solution Design
• Agile Practices
• Analytical Thinking
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• Solution Delivery Process

Minimum Education Requirements: Bachelor Degree or Equivalent Professional Experience

Shift: 1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 40

Pay Transparency details

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Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$122,000.00 - $200,000.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry‑leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.