Principal AI Security Architect

Location: Chicago, IL, United States

Salary: $137,400–$233,600 USD annually; base pay, with a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.

Company

hirify.global provides wealth management, asset servicing, asset management, and banking services, serving sophisticated individuals, families, corporations, and institutions.

What you will do

• Serve as lead security architect for AI, agentic AI, cloud, SaaS, and emerging technology initiatives.
• Review and challenge solution designs, identify security requirements and architectural risks, and conduct threat modeling and security design reviews.
• Create solution, data-flow, and trust-boundary diagrams, reference architectures, security patterns, design standards, control requirements, and technical guidance.
• Define security patterns and guardrails for AI agents, digital coworkers, AI platforms, orchestration frameworks, RAG architectures, MCP integrations, AI identities, delegated authorization, access control, governance, and observability.
• Partner with enterprise architecture, security engineering, IAM, application security, security operations, data protection, cloud engineering, and emerging technology teams through workshops and technical working groups.
• Research and assess emerging AI technologies, platforms, architectures, frameworks, and third-party solutions, balancing innovation, security, operational complexity, and business value.

Requirements

• 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 identity and access management, authentication and authorization, cloud security, application security, network security, API security, data protection, logging and monitoring, 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.
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without requiring employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice to have

• Experience with generative AI, LLM applications, AI agents, or agentic AI architectures.
• Familiarity with RAG architectures, MCP, AI gateways, AI observability, model governance, agent identity and delegated authorization, prompt security, and AI threat modeling.
• Experience developing enterprise standards, architecture patterns, or reference architectures.
• Experience in a regulated financial services environment.
• Relevant cloud, security, or architecture certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment within a flexible and collaborative work culture.
• Retirement benefits including 401(k) and pension, health and welfare benefits, paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life and accident insurance, and well-being benefits.
• Discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.
• Accessible senior leadership, opportunities for internal movement, and an inclusive workplace.
• Reasonable accommodations are available throughout the employment process.