Principal Architect, AI-Native Security

Location: Maryland Heights

** Why WWT?*
* At World Wide Technology, we work together to make a new world happen. Our important work benefits our clients and partners as much as it does our people and communities across the globe. WWT is dedicated to achieving its mission of creating a profitable growth company that is also a Great Place to Work for All. We achieve this through our world-class culture, generous benefits and by delivering cutting-edge technology solutions for our clients.

Founded in 1990, WWT is a global technology solutions provider leading the AI and Digital Revolution. WWT combines the power of strategy, execution and partnership to accelerate digital transformational outcomes for organizations around the globe. Through its Advanced Technology Center, a collaborative ecosystem of the world's most advanced hardware and software solutions, WWT helps clients and partners conceptualize, test and validate innovative technology solutions for the best business outcomes and then deploys them at scale through its global warehousing, distribution and integration capabilities.

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** What is the Solutions Consulting & Engineering (SC&E) Team and why join?*
* Solutions Consulting & Engineering is an organization that is Customer Focused and Solutions Led. We deliver end-to-end and emerging solutions to drive customer satisfaction, increase profitability and growth.  Our success is enabled by our world-class management consulting, delivery excellence and engineering brilliance. Our goal is to bring together business acumen with full-stack technical know-how to develop innovative solutions for our clients' most complex challenges.

** Role Summary*
* WWT Digital is standing up a joint AI + Security practice with WWT Global Security Solutions and needs a Principal Architect to lead the technical design and client delivery of our AI-native security offerings portfolio. You will be the technical anchor of the practice - setting architectural standards, owning the SOW narrative, and serving as the senior escalation point across engagements - while working closely with an AI Security Consultant and AI Security Engineer as a tight, collaborative team.

While the AI Security Consultant owns individual engagement discovery and requirements gathering, you own what gets built and how it gets scoped across the practice. You will operate as the senior technical resource on client engagements from architecture design through delivery oversight, and you will hold executive presence at the CISO, CTO, and CIO level. This role requires genuine dual depth in AI/ML systems and security architecture - candidates who are strong in one but weak in the other will not succeed here.

** Responsibilities*
* + Set and maintain architectural standards across all Digital + Security offerings, ensuring repeatability, quality, and margin integrity across engagements

+ Own the technical SOW narrative: scope definitions, assumptions, acceptance criteria, and phasing for all practice engagements

+ Lead technical discovery workshops on strategic or complex engagements - assessing current-state AI and SDLC maturity, identifying security exposure, and defining target architecture; hand off day-to-day discovery execution to the Consultant on standard engagements

+ Design end-to-end solutions across CI/CD security hardening, AI vulnerability assessment, and AI-native security feedback loop engagements

+ Co-present findings and solution designs alongside the Consultant at CISO, CTO, and CIO-level stakeholders - providing architectural depth and translating between engineering complexity and business risk language

+ Mentor the AI Security Consultant and AI Security Engineer; serve as the senior escalation point on delivery across all engagements

+ Get hands-on with prototypes and proof-of-concept implementations - leveraging AI-assisted development tools to move quickly from architectural concept to working demo, helping the practice stay ahead of a fast-moving threat and technology landscape

+ Collaborate with WWT partner ecosystem (Palo Alto, Cisco, Microsoft, AWS, Snyk) to integrate partner capabilities into joint architectures

+ Own the technical architecture of the AI-native security agentic system end-to-end - from initial implementation through iterative evolution; incorporating lessons from client engagements, emerging threat models, and partner capability changes into versioned architectural updates that propagate across all active and future deployments, establishing the framework within which the AI Security Engineer implements and customizes…