VP, AI Security Architecture — Secure-by-Design Visionary

State Street; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 218,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Insurance coverage

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Incentive compensation

Job summary

State Street is seeking a senior Vice President, AI Security Architecture, reporting to the Managing Director, AI Security and Data Protection. The role leads enterprise security architecture strategy for AI/ML/generative AI, shaping guardrails and patterns with risk, compliance, and business leaders to enable secure, scalable AI capabilities.

The candidate will govern reference architectures, drive threat modeling, and collaborate across Engineering, Product Security, Platform, Data, Risk, and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive cybersecurity or security architecture experience.
• Experience with enterprise AI security and cloud security in regulated environments.
• Ability to set architecture direction and communicate risk to executives.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior technical leadership for the enterprise AI security architecture strategy, roadmap, and target‑state design across artificial intelligence, machine learning, and generative AI capabilities.
• Lead the design and implementation of secure architecture patterns for AI systems, including data pipelines, model access, APIs, agents, retrieval‑augmented generation, orchestration layers, and AI‑enabled applications.
• Define, govern, and continuously mature enterprise AI security reference architectures, technical standards, guardrails, reusable patterns, architecture decision criteria, and exception processes.
• Serve as a senior authority for architecture and design reviews of complex or high‑risk AI initiatives, ensuring security, privacy, resilience, and control requirements are incorporated early in the solution lifecycle.
• Lead AI‑focused threat modeling across models, data flows, platforms, integrations, and user interactions, addressing risks such as data leakage, prompt injection, insecure model access, supply chain vulnerabilities, model misuse, and excessive agency.

Skills

Security architecture leadership

AI security

Threat modeling

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or related field

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Cloud platforms

AI/ML platforms

DevSecOps

APIs

Job description

State Street is seeking a senior Vice President, AI Security Architecture, reporting to the Managing Director, AI Security and Data Protection. The role leads enterprise security architecture strategy for AI/ML/generative AI, shaping guardrails and patterns with risk, compliance, and business leaders to enable secure, scalable AI capabilities.

The candidate will govern reference architectures, drive threat modeling, and collaborate across Engineering, Product Security, Platform, Data, Risk, and