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About Northern Trust
Northern Trust is a leading provider of wealth management, asset servicing, asset management, and banking services to corporations, institutions, and high-net-worth individuals. Industry: Financial Services & Asset Management
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The Principal AI Security Architect joins the AI Security organization to enable safe enterprise adoption of artificial intelligence. This hands-on architecture role involves defining security architecture, governance patterns, and technology guardrails for AI platforms, agentic systems, and digital coworkers. The architect will create artifacts like solution diagrams, data-flow diagrams, and reference architectures while establishing security requirements and reusable guidance. Key responsibilities include conducting threat modeling, designing security patterns for RAG architectures and MCP integrations, and managing AI identities and delegated authorization models. The role requires expertise in Microsoft Azure, identity and access management, cloud security, and application security. The architect solves the technical challenge of balancing innovation with security by translating complex policies into practical engineering requirements within a regulated financial services environment.
Serve as the lead security architect for AI, agentic AI, cloud, and emerging technology initiatives.
Review solution designs to identify security requirements, architectural risks, and opportunities for improvement.
Develop security artifacts including solution diagrams, data-flow diagrams, reference architectures, and design standards.
Conduct threat modeling and security design reviews for AI systems and supporting technology platforms.
Define security patterns for AI agents, RAG architectures, and model access control.
Build and maintain a library of reusable AI security reference architectures and architectural decision records.
Research emerging AI technologies and evaluate new platforms, frameworks, and third-party solutions.
Translate security policies and control objectives into practical engineering requirements for delivery teams.
What we're looking for
8+ years of experience in security architecture, enterprise architecture, cloud architecture, engineering, or related disciplines.
Experience designing and reviewing complex enterprise technology solutions.
Strong understanding of IAM, authentication, cloud security, application security, network security, API security, data protection, logging, and secrets management.
Experience with Microsoft Azure or comparable cloud platforms.
Ability to produce architecture diagrams and technical design documentation.
Experience facilitating architecture reviews and working across multiple stakeholder groups.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
AI Security
Generative AI
Agentic AI
RAG
Identity and Access Management
Cloud Security
Application Security
API Security
DevSecOps
Security Monitoring and Observability
AI Orchestration
Model Governance
Data Protection
Cloud Engineering
Security Architecture
Architecture Governance
AI Security
Machine Learning
Generative AI
Large Language Models
Cloud Security
DevSecOps
CI/CD
Threat Modeling
Data Pipelines
APIs
Identity and Access Management
Data Protection
Security Architecture
Security Automation
Logging
Monitoring
Product Security
Application Security