Senior security Architect

Description

Title:Senior level security Architect/Engineer with GenAI security and Threat Modeling experience.

Location: Charlotte, NC

Duration: 12 months

Work Engagement: W2

Work Schedule: Hybrid 3 days in office/2 days remote

Benefits on offer for this contract position: Health Insurance, Life insurance, 401K and Voluntary Benefits

Summary:

In this contingent resource assignment, you may: Consult as an expert to develop or influence initiatives and resources for highly complex business and technical needs across Engineering. Consult on the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, and advanced analytical and inductive thinking. Provide expertise to client senior leadership on innovative Engineering business solutions. Strategically engage with client personnel. Required Qualifications: Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform security architecture review and GenAI threat modeling for GenAI, and agentic AI platforms and use cases.
• Identify and mitigate risks such as prompt injection, jailbreak, data leakage, model poisoning, vector or embedding attacks, and third-party model risks.
• Conduct secure architecture reviews for GenAI platforms including Google Vertex AI, AgentSpace, Copilot Studio, and internal LLM services.
• Define and validate security requirements aligned with OWASP LLM Top 10, OWASP Agentic Application Security, MITRE ATLAS, and internal GenAI security standards.
• Review IAM models, secrets management, API security, and cloud security controls (Azure, GCP).
• Produce high quality threat models, architecture review reports, and mitigation recommendations.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to gather architecture artifacts and drive security improvements.

Key Requirements:

• Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

• cybersecurity, security architecture, application security, or threat modeling.

• Hands on experience conducting threat models, including for GenAI workloads.

• Strong cloud security expertise in Azure, GCP, or AWS.

• Experience securing LLMs, RAG pipelines, API gateways, SaaS GenAI services, or agentic systems.

• Familiarity with GenAI threat mitigations such as prompt filtering, DLP, vector store protection, adversarial input detection, and model hardening.

• Strong communication skills and ability to translate technical risks into practical guidance.