AI and Security Architect, Director

About the role

As a member of BlackRock's Cyber Architecture and Engineering organization, the Director, AI and Security Architecture will define and advance security strategy for AI-enabled systems across internal enterprise platforms and client-facing products. The scope includes LLM-powered applications, agent-based workflows, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, tool-driven integrations, and distributed cloud-native platforms. The role combines deep technical expertise with cross-functional leadership. The Director will lead security architecture and risk decisions for strategic AI initiatives, establish scalable guardrails and secure development patterns, and partner with AI platform, product, engineering, architecture, and security leaders to identify risks early, drive remediation, and improve secure-by-default outcomes. Director-level technical leadership role responsible for shaping AI security strategy, security architecture, standards, and secure-by-design practices across AI platforms, products, and emerging agentic systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the AI security and security architecture roadmap across enterprise platforms and client-facing products.
• Establish firmwide security standards, reference patterns, guardrails, and governance requirements for AI systems, agentic workflows, and emerging AI technologies.
• Lead security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and risk assessments for strategic and high-risk AI initiatives.
• Drive security outcomes for LLM applications, RAG pipelines, agent workflows, model integrations, and tool ecosystems.
• Identify and drive remediation of risks including prompt injection, jailbreaks, unsafe tool usage, data exposure, insecure execution paths, and excessive agent permissions.
• Lead the security architecture strategy for AI-enabled systems and influence architectural decisions across engineering organizations and strategic platforms.