Senior Application Security Architect
State Street · Quincy, MA · 1 mo ago
$120k–$203k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? Actually we have sections: Who We Are Looking For (intro), Why This Role Is Important To Us, What You Will Be Responsible For, What We Value (skills), Education & Preferred Qualifications, Additional Requirements, Work Requirement (Hybrid, Shift), Salary Range, Benefits (description), About State Street (maybe not needed? It's boilerplate? It's about company, but not required? The instruction: Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. "About State Street" is not exactly boilerplate but could be considered company description; it's not a required section heading per list (About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We should map content to those headings.
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We need to preserve all substantive info, not invent or summarize away detail.
We need to avoid repeating job title as heading.
We need to not put Job ID as heading.
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under maybe "About the role"? But we should not create extra sections not in list. The instruction: "Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It says e.g., meaning those are examples; we could also use other headings if needed? But they say "include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text". So we can create sections like "About the role", "Responsibilities", "Requirements", "Qualifications", "Skills", "Benefits", "Pay", "Schedule". Probably we should map content accordingly.
Let's extract:
- About the role: Could be the introductory paragraphs: "Who We Are Looking For We are looking for a Senior Application Security Architect. You will be responsible for designing, reviewing, and governing security architectures for enterprise applications, APIs, cloud-native platforms, and AI-enabled systems. You will partner with software engineering, data science, cloud engineering, cybersecurity, and business teams to ensure security is embedded throughout the software and AI development lifecycles." Also "Why This Role Is Important To Us" could be part of about the role. We'll combine into About the role.
- Responsibilities: The bullet list under "What You Will Be Responsible For". That's a list.
- Requirements: Could be "Education & Preferred Qualifications" plus maybe "Additional Requirements". But we have separate headings: Requirements and Qualifications. We could put education/qualifications under Qualifications, and experience/skills under Requirements? Or we can follow typical: Requirements = mandatory experience/skills; Qualifications = education/certs. But we have both. Let's decide:
Requirements: Experience, skills needed (deep expertise, strong understanding, experience securing cloud-native, strong analytical, problem-solving, communication). Also "Additional Requirements" (supporting enterprise application modernization, ability to work effectively, limited travel). Could be part of Requirements.
Qualifications: Education & Preferred Qualifications (degree, years experience, demonstrated experience, deep expertise, etc.) plus certifications.
Skills: Could be "What We Value" which lists skills.
Benefits: The paragraph about benefits program.
Pay: Salary Range.
Schedule: Work Requirement (Hybrid, Shift).
We must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We need to output only HTML fragment, no markdown fences.
Let's craft:
About the role
We are looking for a Senior Application Security Architect. You will be responsible for designing, reviewing, and governing security architectures for enterprise applications, APIs, cloud-native platforms, and AI-enabled systems. You will partner with software engineering, data science, cloud engineering, cybersecurity, and business teams to ensure security is embedded throughout the software and AI development lifecycles. As applications increasingly leverage AI and machine learning technologies, this role is responsible for ensuring secure-by-design principles are applied consistently across traditional applications, cloud-native services, APIs, and AI-powered solutions.
Responsibilities
- Design and review secure architectures for enterprise applications, APIs, cloud-native platforms, AI-enabled systems, and emerging technologies.
- Define and maintain application security and AI security standards, architecture patterns, and security requirements.
- Conduct security architecture reviews, threat modeling exercises, and design assessments for applications, APIs, and AI solutions.
- Partner with application development, cloud engineering, AI engineering, and cybersecurity teams to embed security controls throughout the software and AI development lifecycles.
- Provide subject matter expertise in secure coding, application security testing, API security, authentication, authorization, AI security, and data protection.
- Assess security risks associated with applications, AI models, training data, prompts, agents, integrations, and third-party AI services.
- Drive adoption of secure-by-design, Zero Trust, DevSecOps, and AI security best practices across the enterprise.
- Evaluate emerging application security and AI security threats, technologies, and industry standards.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in application security, secure software development, and modern application architectures.
- Strong understanding of AI/ML security risks, Large Language Models (LLMs), agentic AI systems, prompt injection, model misuse, and AI supply chain security.
- Experience securing cloud-native applications, APIs, microservices, containers, Kubernetes, and AI-enabled platforms.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and risk assessment skills with the ability to evaluate both traditional and AI-specific security threats.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to collaborate across architecture, engineering, cybersecurity, cloud, and data science teams.
- Experience supporting enterprise application modernization, cloud transformation, DevSecOps, and AI adoption initiatives.
- Ability to work effectively with application development, AI engineering, cloud engineering, architecture, and cybersecurity teams in a global environment.
- Limited travel may be required based on business needs.
Qualifications
- Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Engineering, Data Science, or a related discipline.
- 14 years or more of experience in application security, software engineering, security architecture, AI security, or related technology disciplines with at least 8 years of hands-on cybersecurity experience preferred.
- Demonstrated experience designing and securing enterprise-scale applications across cloud, SaaS, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
- Deep expertise in secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC), OWASP Top 10, API security, secure coding practices, and application security testing methodologies.
- Strong understanding of AI/ML architectures, LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), agentic systems, model security, prompt security, and responsible AI principles.
- Experience with cloud-native technologies, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps practices, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Experience conducting threat modeling, architecture reviews, penetration test remediation, and risk assessments for applications and AI-enabled solutions.
- Familiarity with SAST, DAST, IAST, software composition analysis (SCA), API security testing, model validation, and AI security assessment techniques.
- Professional certifications such as CISSP, CSSLP, CCSP, TOGAF, SABSA, AWS Security Specialty, Azure Security Engineer, AI Security, or equivalent certifications are highly desirable.
- Experience within financial services or other highly regulated industries is preferred.
Skills
The following skills will help you succeed in this role:
- Deep expertise in application security, secure software development, and modern application architectures.
- Strong understanding of AI/ML security risks, Large Language Models (LLMs), agentic AI systems, prompt injection, model misuse, and AI supply chain security.
- Experience securing cloud-native applications, APIs, microservices, containers, Kubernetes, and AI-enabled platforms.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and risk assessment skills with the ability to evaluate both traditional and AI-specific security threats.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to collaborate across architecture, engineering, cybersecurity, cloud, and data science teams.
But note that Skills duplicates Requirements content; maybe we should not duplicate. The instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. If we duplicate, we are repeating info but not inventing. Might be okay but could be considered redundant. However we could avoid duplication by not having Skills section if it's same as Requirements. But the posting has a "What We Value" section which is essentially skills. We could keep it as Skills, but we should not repeat the same bullet points exactly as in Requirements; we could rephrase? But we must preserve detail, not summarize away. We could keep the exact list from "What We Value". That list is:
- Deep expertise in application security, secure software development, and modern application architectures.
- Strong understanding of AI/ML security risks, Large Language Models (LLMs), agentic AI systems, prompt injection, model misuse, and AI supply chain security.
- Experience securing cloud-native applications, APIs, microservices, containers, Kubernetes, and AI-enabled platforms.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and risk assessment skills with the ability to evaluate both traditional and AI-specific security threats.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to collaborate across architecture, engineering, cybersecurity, cloud, and data science teams.
That's exactly same as some of the Requirements bullets. It's okay to have them appear in both sections; it's not inventing. We'll keep.
Now Benefits:
Benefits
Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our 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); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.
We could also include link but that's maybe boilerplate; we can omit the link as it's not substantive? It's a reference for full overview; maybe we keep as part of benefits? The instruction: Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The link is not boilerplate but maybe considered reference; we could keep it as part of benefits? It's not required; but we can keep it as a with the link? Might be considered extra but not harmful. Safer to omit the link as it's not substantive detail about benefits. The instruction says preserve ALL substantive information; the link is not substantive info about benefits, just a reference. Could omit.
Pay:
Pay
Salary Range $120,000 - $202,500 Annual
Schedule:
Schedule
Hybrid: Expected to work in accordance with State Street's hybrid work model. Shift
for prose. We should include sections only when posting has real specific content. We need to preserve all substantive info, not invent or summarize away detail. We need to avoid repeating job title as heading. We need to not put Job ID as heading. We need to remove boilerplate: EEO, legal, application instructions, etc. Also remove "About State Street" maybe considered boilerplate? It's not exactly legal but could be considered company overview; but not in allowed headings. Might be okay to keep as a
under maybe "About the role"? But we should not create extra sections not in list. The instruction: "Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It says e.g., meaning those are examples; we could also use other headings if needed? But they say "include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text". So we can create sections like "About the role", "Responsibilities", "Requirements", "Qualifications", "Skills", "Benefits", "Pay", "Schedule". Probably we should map content accordingly.
Let's extract:
- About the role: Could be the introductory paragraphs: "Who We Are Looking For We are looking for a Senior Application Security Architect. You will be responsible for designing, reviewing, and governing security architectures for enterprise applications, APIs, cloud-native platforms, and AI-enabled systems. You will partner with software engineering, data science, cloud engineering, cybersecurity, and business teams to ensure security is embedded throughout the software and AI development lifecycles." Also "Why This Role Is Important To Us" could be part of about the role. We'll combine into About the role.
- Responsibilities: The bullet list under "What You Will Be Responsible For". That's a list.
- Requirements: Could be "Education & Preferred Qualifications" plus maybe "Additional Requirements". But we have separate headings: Requirements and Qualifications. We could put education/qualifications under Qualifications, and experience/skills under Requirements? Or we can follow typical: Requirements = mandatory experience/skills; Qualifications = education/certs. But we have both. Let's decide:
Requirements: Experience, skills needed (deep expertise, strong understanding, experience securing cloud-native, strong analytical, problem-solving, communication). Also "Additional Requirements" (supporting enterprise application modernization, ability to work effectively, limited travel). Could be part of Requirements.
Qualifications: Education & Preferred Qualifications (degree, years experience, demonstrated experience, deep expertise, etc.) plus certifications.
Skills: Could be "What We Value" which lists skills.
Benefits: The paragraph about benefits program.
Pay: Salary Range.
Schedule: Work Requirement (Hybrid, Shift).
We must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We need to output only HTML fragment, no markdown fences.
Let's craft:
About the role
We are looking for a Senior Application Security Architect. You will be responsible for designing, reviewing, and governing security architectures for enterprise applications, APIs, cloud-native platforms, and AI-enabled systems. You will partner with software engineering, data science, cloud engineering, cybersecurity, and business teams to ensure security is embedded throughout the software and AI development lifecycles. As applications increasingly leverage AI and machine learning technologies, this role is responsible for ensuring secure-by-design principles are applied consistently across traditional applications, cloud-native services, APIs, and AI-powered solutions.
Responsibilities
- Design and review secure architectures for enterprise applications, APIs, cloud-native platforms, AI-enabled systems, and emerging technologies.
- Define and maintain application security and AI security standards, architecture patterns, and security requirements.
- Conduct security architecture reviews, threat modeling exercises, and design assessments for applications, APIs, and AI solutions.
- Partner with application development, cloud engineering, AI engineering, and cybersecurity teams to embed security controls throughout the software and AI development lifecycles.
- Provide subject matter expertise in secure coding, application security testing, API security, authentication, authorization, AI security, and data protection.
- Assess security risks associated with applications, AI models, training data, prompts, agents, integrations, and third-party AI services.
- Drive adoption of secure-by-design, Zero Trust, DevSecOps, and AI security best practices across the enterprise.
- Evaluate emerging application security and AI security threats, technologies, and industry standards.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in application security, secure software development, and modern application architectures.
- Strong understanding of AI/ML security risks, Large Language Models (LLMs), agentic AI systems, prompt injection, model misuse, and AI supply chain security.
- Experience securing cloud-native applications, APIs, microservices, containers, Kubernetes, and AI-enabled platforms.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and risk assessment skills with the ability to evaluate both traditional and AI-specific security threats.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to collaborate across architecture, engineering, cybersecurity, cloud, and data science teams.
- Experience supporting enterprise application modernization, cloud transformation, DevSecOps, and AI adoption initiatives.
- Ability to work effectively with application development, AI engineering, cloud engineering, architecture, and cybersecurity teams in a global environment.
- Limited travel may be required based on business needs.
Qualifications
- Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Engineering, Data Science, or a related discipline.
- 14 years or more of experience in application security, software engineering, security architecture, AI security, or related technology disciplines with at least 8 years of hands-on cybersecurity experience preferred.
- Demonstrated experience designing and securing enterprise-scale applications across cloud, SaaS, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
- Deep expertise in secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC), OWASP Top 10, API security, secure coding practices, and application security testing methodologies.
- Strong understanding of AI/ML architectures, LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), agentic systems, model security, prompt security, and responsible AI principles.
- Experience with cloud-native technologies, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps practices, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Experience conducting threat modeling, architecture reviews, penetration test remediation, and risk assessments for applications and AI-enabled solutions.
- Familiarity with SAST, DAST, IAST, software composition analysis (SCA), API security testing, model validation, and AI security assessment techniques.
- Professional certifications such as CISSP, CSSLP, CCSP, TOGAF, SABSA, AWS Security Specialty, Azure Security Engineer, AI Security, or equivalent certifications are highly desirable.
- Experience within financial services or other highly regulated industries is preferred.
Skills
The following skills will help you succeed in this role:
- Deep expertise in application security, secure software development, and modern application architectures.
- Strong understanding of AI/ML security risks, Large Language Models (LLMs), agentic AI systems, prompt injection, model misuse, and AI supply chain security.
- Experience securing cloud-native applications, APIs, microservices, containers, Kubernetes, and AI-enabled platforms.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and risk assessment skills with the ability to evaluate both traditional and AI-specific security threats.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to collaborate across architecture, engineering, cybersecurity, cloud, and data science teams.
Benefits
Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our 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); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.
We could also include link but that's maybe boilerplate; we can omit the link as it's not substantive? It's a reference for full overview; maybe we keep as part of benefits? The instruction: Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The link is not boilerplate but maybe considered reference; we could keep it as part of benefits? It's not required; but we can keep it as awith the link? Might be considered extra but not harmful. Safer to omit the link as it's not substantive detail about benefits. The instruction says preserve ALL substantive information; the link is not substantive info about benefits, just a reference. Could omit. Pay:
Pay
Salary Range $120,000 - $202,500 Annual
Schedule:Schedule
Hybrid: Expected to work in accordance with State Street's hybrid work model. Shift