AI Cyber/Security Architect

BMO•Chicago, IL

2d•$122,400 - $228,000•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a seasoned cybersecurity architect to join our team in support of BMO’s AI journey. This role is responsible for securing Artificial Intelligence (AI), both Generative AI (GenAI) and Agentic AI, capabilities across the enterprise, ensuring they are resilient, compliant, and aligned with financial industry regulatory expectations. You will engage with various business and technology stakeholders to ensure that proposed AI implementations adhere to the enterprise’s cybersecurity standards. This role will require you to partner closely with your peers in various Cybersecurity, Risk, Legal, and Engineering teams in identifying and solutioning cyber controls related to securing AI across the enterprise.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Computer Science or relevant discipline
10+ years overall experience in cybersecurity, with demonstrated leadership experience
4-5 years experience in a Security Architect role with 2 years experience specifically in AI Architecture (and all security related aspects)
Expertise in cloud security, application security, and data protection
Experience securing AI/ML or advanced analytics platforms
Strong understanding of AI system architectures.
Strong understanding of financial services regulatory environment
Proven ability to build and operationalize security frameworks at scale
Strong communication skills.
Experience supporting audits and regulators recommended

Responsibilities

Support BMO’s AI security strategy alignment to our Cyber and Risk priorities
Develop AI-specific threat models across the model lifecycle (training → deployment → inference)
Integrate AI security into Zero Trust, cloud security, and data protection frameworks
Work with cybersecurity and risk peers to ensure established AI security controls align to a given business/technology initiative
Stay current on industry business and technical trends with respect to cybersecurity governance practices with an emphasis on Artificial Intelligence
Provide support for BMO’s Responsible AI Operations (i.e., RAIOps) practices
Advise BMO’s 2nd line AI Risk function in review of AI related use cases
Partner with Cyber, Enterprise Architecture, and Engineering to define patterns for AI/GenAI platforms (cloud-hosted, APIs, internal models, enterprise copilots)
Enforce security requirements across AI pipelines: Data ingestion and preprocessing, Model training and tuning, Deployment and inference layers
Perform security architecture design reviews for all AI use cases prior to production deployment
Partner with Cyber peers to define security requirements and support assessments for external AI vendors and platforms
Ensure alignment with vendor risk management, data protection, and residency requirements
Ensure AI systems comply with applicable financial regulations and supervisory expectations
Provide or contribute to audit-ready documentation and evidence of control effectiveness
Support regulatory exams and internal audits related to AI and GenAI
Provide guidance to AI engineering and platform teams on secure development practices
Drive enterprise awareness of AI security risks and controls
Enable safe, scalable adoption of AI across the organization