VP, AI Security Architecture & Strategy

State Street Corporation; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

State Street Corporation in the United States seeks a Vice President, AI Security Architecture to define enterprise security patterns and guardrails for AI, ML, and generative AI. You will lead cross‑functional architecture decisions with engineering, data, risk, and business leaders to enable secure, scalable AI.

You will drive threat modeling, governance, and secure‑by‑design practices, embed security into DevSecOps and AI development, and mentor architects while communicating risk to senior

Qualifications

• Extensive leadership across security architecture, secure design, cloud security, product security and data protection.
• Deep understanding of AI/ML architectures, generative AI, model/data pipelines, APIs, cloud-native platforms, and AI security risk patterns.
• Ability to set architecture direction, lead cross-functional decisions, and translate risks into scalable requirements and executive recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior technical leadership for AI security architecture strategy, roadmap, and target-state design across AI/ML capabilities.
• Lead secure architecture patterns for AI systems including data pipelines, model access, APIs, agents, and orchestrations.
• Define, govern, and mature enterprise AI security reference architectures, guardrails, and reusable patterns.
• Serve as senior authority for architecture reviews of high-risk AI initiatives, ensuring security, privacy, resilience, and control requirements are incorporated early.
• Lead AI-focused threat modeling across models, data flows, platforms, and user interactions, addressing data leakage and prompt injection risks.
• Translate AI threat signals into practical security requirements, control designs, mitigation strategies, and risk-based decisions.
• Partner with senior leaders across Engineering, Product Security, Platform, Cloud, Data, Risk, Compliance, and Audit to align AI security priorities.
• Embed AI security controls into software development, DevSecOps, model development, deployment, validation, monitoring, and incident response workflows.
• Establish repeatable assurance criteria for AI platforms, pipelines, models, and third-party services.
• Provide oversight for generative AI tools, internal AI services, and strategic enterprise AI programs.
• Advise governance forums on technical risk and recommended decisions; support incident management with clear documentation.
• Mentor architects and security practitioners to improve AI security practices.

Skills

Security architecture leadership

Executive communication

Threat modeling

AI security understanding

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Info Security/Engineering

10+ years cybersecurity experience

Certifications: CISSP/CCSP/CSSLP preferred

Job description

State Street Corporation in the United States seeks a Vice President, AI Security Architecture to define enterprise security patterns and guardrails for AI, ML, and generative AI. You will lead cross‑functional architecture decisions with engineering, data, risk, and business leaders to enable secure, scalable AI.

You will drive threat modeling, governance, and secure‑by‑design practices, embed security into DevSecOps and AI development, and mentor architects while communicating risk to senior