Senior AI Security Solution Architect

Vertical Relevance is partnering with a leading financial services organization to build an innovative AI-driven security capability that transforms how application vulnerabilities are identified validated and prioritized. The solution uses agentic AI static analysis reachability analysis and isolated execution environments to generate executable proof of exploitability and publish validated findings through existing security workflows.

What You Will Do

• 7 years Design and build an agentic vulnerability-discovery harness from end to end.

• Architect the agent runtime orchestration layer and parallel vulnerability-hunting agents.

• Develop adversarial validation workflows that verify candidate findings before publication.

• Build cross-repository indexing dependency mapping and source-to-sink reachability analysis capabilities.

• Establish isolated execution environments for exploit validation.

• Validate the platform against labeled vulnerability datasets and measure detection quality.

• Publish validated findings into Azure DevOps using SARIF.

• Create runbooks hardening guides and production-readiness documentation.

Required Qualifications

• Production experience building LLM agent or multi-agent systems.

• Experience with agent orchestration tool integration evaluation loops and non-deterministic model behavior.

• Strong software architecture and engineering experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Application security vulnerability discovery and exploit development.

• CodeQL Semgrep Joern taint analysis and data-flow analysis.

• Tree-sitter SCIP or LSP-based indexing.

• Firecracker gVisor or similar isolated execution platforms.

• SARIF and Azure DevOps integration experience.

Technology Environment

LLM Agent Frameworks: LangGraph Bedrock AgentCore MCP-based tooling

Security Analysis: CodeQL Semgrep Joern SAST SCA

Isolation Technologies: Firecracker gVisor Containers

DevOps & Security Operations: Azure DevOps SARIF CI/CD Security Pipelines

About Vertical Relevance

Vertical Relevance was founded to help business leaders drive value through the design and delivery of effective transformation programs across people processes and systems. Our mission is to help firms at any stage of their journey develop custom solutions for success and growth. We provide a full range of services from strategy and design through to implementation and training. Our collective industry expertise is our greatest asset - our professionals have an average of 20 years experience within Financial Services across Wealth Management Asset Management Insurance and Banking. Within our Customer Experience practice we add complementary industry expertise (technology and media) synergizing the most relevant and successful customer trends. We focus wholly on your success by first rigorously assessing your business and technology challenges and then right-sizing solutions that provide a meaningful ROI. With our industry experts hitting the ground running and focusing on nimble quality delivery we can see rapid tangible improvements with our clients in productivity and effectiveness. When it makes sense for your company we leverage our product partnerships in the areas of CRM Sales Acceleration Predictive Analytics Digital Knowledge Management and Cloud Transformation.