State Street

Head of AI Security Architecture

State Street

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: BostonMassachusettsUnited States

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Salary

💰 $170,000 - $282,500 per year

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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