Sr. AI & Agentic Security Architect

MetLife•Tampa, FL

62d•$100,000 - $165,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Sr. AI & Agentic Security Architect is responsible for defining, governing, and securing MetLife’s enterprise AI ecosystem by establishing the Agentic Security Control Plane and enabling the safe, compliant, and scalable adoption of AI technologies across the organization. This role supports AI innovation while ensuring robust security, risk management, and regulatory readiness across global operations. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the security foundation for the next generation of AI and agentic technologies, driving enterprise-wide capabilities in Agentic AI Security, AI/LLM Guardrails, AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM), Shadow AI Discovery, and secure AI platform architecture at scale.

Requirements

5-7 years of overall experience.
Experience designing and implementing enterprise AI security, governance, and risk management programs.
Hands-on experience implementing AI security controls, AI guardrails, AI application security, and AI asset discovery capabilities.
Strong knowledge of AI security and risk frameworks such as NIST AI RMF, MITRE ATLAS, OWASP AI guidance, or equivalent industry standards.
Experience securing AI applications, copilots, LLM-based solutions, agentic systems, or comparable AI technologies in cloud environments.
Strong cloud and security architecture background with the ability to assess and mitigate AI-related risks.
Ability to operate independently, influence technical decisions without direct authority, and communicate effectively with both engineering teams and executive stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM)
Shadow AI Discovery
ISO/IEC 42001
LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, or similar frameworks
MCP (Model Context Protocol) architecture and security implications
Experience with agentic AI security assessments and threat modeling (e.g., MITRE ATLAS)

Responsibilities

Build security controls that govern agent permissions, tool access boundaries, and inter-agent trust — preventing privilege escalation, unauthorized tool invocation, and unintended autonomous actions across agentic workflows.
Define and operationalize threat models for LLM-based systems covering prompt injection (direct and indirect), insecure output handling, excessive agency, training data poisoning, and model misuse — aligned to OWASP LLM Top 10 and MITRE ATLAS.
Own the architecture of the enterprise AI SPM capability — providing continuous visibility into the full AI asset inventory including models, agents, MCP servers, orchestrators, and tool registries, as well as risk posture and policy compliance status.
Lead the technical design and implementation of Shadow AI Discovery capabilities — detecting unsanctioned AI tools, models, services, and agentic deployments across the enterprise through network telemetry, cloud resource scanning, API gateway analysis, and endpoint signals.
Embed security controls and automated benchmarks into CI/CD pipelines across the AI development lifecycle — covering model training, fine-tuning, agent deployment, and inference stages.
Serve as the enterprise-wide technical authority on AI and agentic security — setting standards, publishing architectural guidance, and reviewing AI system designs for security risk before production deployment.
Partner with AI platform engineering, MLOps, DevOps, IAM, and Enterprise Architecture, Security Engineering and Regional teams to embed security into AI development practices from the ground up — without slowing delivery.

Benefits

Comprehensive health plan that includes medical/prescription drug and vision
Dental insurance
No-cost short- and long-term disability
Company-paid life insurance
Legal services
Retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife
401(k) with employer matching
Group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto and home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Digital mental health programs
Parental leave
Paid time off
Paid holidays
Volunteer time off
Tuition assistance