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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 Sr. Principal AI Security Architect joins the AI Security organization to lead the safe enterprise adoption of artificial intelligence. This hands-on leadership role involves defining security architecture strategies, reference architectures, and governance patterns for AI platforms, agentic systems, and digital coworkers. The architect will build reusable patterns, create blueprints, and lead technical reviews for complex initiatives. Key responsibilities include establishing guardrails for RAG architectures, MCP integrations, and AI gateways while managing model governance and control frameworks. The role requires deep expertise in identity and access management, cloud security, API security, and DevSecOps. The architect must navigate the technical challenges of securing generative AI and agentic architectures within a highly regulated financial services environment, ensuring that emerging technologies align with security and operational objectives.
Define and evolve the enterprise AI security architecture strategy and long-term roadmaps.
Establish architectural principles, guardrails, and standards for AI and emerging technologies.
Lead architecture reviews for AI platforms, agentic systems, cloud-native services, and data integrations.
Create reusable reference architectures and blueprints for AI agents, RAG architectures, and AI gateways.
Identify strategic architectural risks and capability gaps to align AI adoption with business objectives.
Evaluate new AI platforms and frameworks to identify security implications for agentic architectures.
Mentor and develop architects across the Cyber Security and Technology organizations.
Guide technical decision-making and investment choices for complex, high-impact AI initiatives.
What we're looking for
Must have 12+ years of experience in security architecture, enterprise architecture, cloud architecture, software engineering, or related disciplines.
Must have extensive experience defining enterprise technology strategies and architecture standards.
Must have demonstrated success influencing technical direction across large and complex organizations.
Must have deep expertise in IAM, enterprise security architecture, cloud security, application security, API security, data protection, DevSecOps, and security monitoring.
Must have experience leading architecture design for large-scale enterprise platforms or transformation programs.
Must have exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
Experience designing security architectures for generative AI, agentic AI, or advanced automation platforms (preferred).
AI Security
Generative AI
LLM
RAG
Azure
Cloud Security
Identity and Access Management
Application Security
Network Security
API Security
Threat Modeling
Secrets Management
Data Protection
Logging and Monitoring
MCP
AI Observability
Model Governance
Prompt Security
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