
Head of AI Security Architecture
State Street
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Boston • Massachusetts • United States
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Salary
💰 $170,000 - $282,500 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Define and steward State Street’s enterprise AI security architecture, including secure-by-default patterns for AI platforms, GenAI tooling, AI agents, and data pipelines
- Establish architecture standards, guardrails, and reference designs for AI systems across cloud and on-prem environments
- Embed security, privacy, and compliance requirements directly into AI and software engineering lifecycle processes
- Partner with Enterprise Architecture and Engineering to ensure AI security scales across product teams with minimal friction
- Establish and mature AI threat modeling practices, aligned to real-world attacker behavior and regulatory scrutiny
- Lead identification and mitigation of AI‑specific risks including model abuse, data poisoning, OSS corruption, prompt injection, model inversion, and emerging adversarial AI threats
- Drive defensible architecture decisions supported by measurable risk reduction and operational outcomes
- Integrate AI security into DevSecOps pipelines, automating preventative, detective, and responsive controls
- Enable secure AI adoption through paved-road platforms, automation, and architectural simplification
- Partner with engineering teams to accelerate AI reviews and approvals through tooling and policy-as-code approaches
- Lead security architecture for emerging AI capabilities, including AI agents, automation frameworks, and developer assist tooling
- Collaborate with crypto and platform teams on post‑quantum readiness considerations as they relate to AI systems and long-lived data
- Ensure architecture standards align with and support regulatory expectations (FFIEC, NIST, ISO, NYDFS, GDPR, etc.)
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or related field
- Advanced degree preferred
- Relevant certifications (CISSP, CISM, cloud security, architecture, or AI-related certifications) desired
- 15+ years of experience in security engineering, product security, or architecture roles
- Demonstrated leadership designing and scaling secure cloud-native architectures in large, regulated environments
- Proven experience embedding security into DevSecOps and software engineering workflows
- Hands-on experience securing AI/ML and GenAI systems, including governance, data protection, and model risk
- Strong background in regulatory audits, control remediation, and executive-level risk communication
- Experience leading global, multidisciplinary security or engineering teams.
Benefits
- retirement savings plan (401K) with company match
- insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages
- paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities
- access to our Employee Assistance Program
- incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans)
- eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans
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Hard Skills & Tools
AI security architecturesecure-by-default patternsAI platformsGenAI toolingdata pipelinesDevSecOpsthreat modelingrisk mitigationcloud-native architecturesAI/ML security
Soft Skills
leadershipcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingrisk managementteam managementpolicy developmentstakeholder engagementprocess improvement
Certifications
CISSPCISMcloud security certificationarchitecture certificationAI-related certification