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Role: Security Architect / AI Security AppSec Architect

Location: Boston, MA - Hybrid 3 days per week

Duration: Long term Contract

JOB PURPOSE:

We are seeking a Security Architect / AI Security AppSec Architect to assist in the strategic evaluation and secure implementation of our AI Agent Framework. As AI adoption accelerates across our investment and research teams, this role will be pivotal in ensuring our systems remain secure, resilient, and compliant. You will combine high-level architectural oversight—specifically evaluating new and emerging AI technologies—with hands-on engineering.

Reporting to the Director of Security in Global Security organization, you will research security controls, validate emerging architectural patterns, and define the governance standards for M365 Copilot Agents and autonomous agents built on Azure AI Foundry.

Primary Responsibilities:

Technology Evaluation & Security Architecture

• Emerging Tech Research: Proactively evaluate new AI tools, frameworks, and LLM providers to assess their security posture and suitability for a highly regulated investment environment.
• Architectural Design: Design and validate secure architectural patterns for AI agent integration within the organization’s ecosystem, ensuring data privacy and IP protection.
• Threat Modeling: Conduct deep-dive analysis of AI-specific threats (prompt injection, model inversion, data poisoning) and architect systemic mitigations.
• Platform Assessment: Evaluate the security capabilities of Azure AI Foundry, M365 Copilot Studio, and the Microsoft Graph API against the organization’s compliance standards.
• MCP Specialization: Assess Model Context Protocol (MCP) security best practices, designing isolation strategies for context management.
• As a security architect, assist with evaluations of other technologies being evaluated with via our Enterprise Architecture Review Board

Technical Implementation & Validation

• Hardening & Standards: Create hardening checklists and configuration standards for AI platforms that bridge the gap between innovation and rigorous risk management.
• Identity & Integration: Test and document sophisticated integration approaches with Azure Key Vault, Entra ID, and Managed Identities.
• Security Telemetry: Implement advanced logging, auditing, and monitoring for AI agent telemetry to ensure visibility into autonomous actions.
• Governance & Standards Development
• Design Principles: Lead the creation of the organization’s AI Agent Security Design Principles document.
• Policy Authoring: Working with various teams assist in developing technical sections of governance policies that address the risks of emerging AI technologies and autonomous workflows.
• CI/CD Integration: Identify and bridge control gaps in existing CI/CD pipelines to support secure, automated AI deployments.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Translate complex security architectures into actionable implementation guides for developers and investment tech teams.

Required Qualifications:

• Architectural & Technical Skills
• 5+ years in Cloud Security/Architecture with deep hands-on Azure platform experience.
• AI Specialization: Hands-on experience with Azure AI Services, Azure OpenAI, and Azure AI Foundry (or similar platforms like AWS SageMaker).
• Modern Identity: Expert-level understanding of Microsoft Entra ID, Service Principals, and Managed Identity in a complex enterprise environment.
• Emerging Protocols: Deep familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) and its implications for data isolation and session security.
• GenAI/LLM Expertise: Strong grasp of RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) patterns and vector database security.
• Security Implementation & Strategy
• Zero Trust: Proven track record of implementing Zero Trust controls in financial services or cloud-native environments.
• Automation: Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep) to codify security guardrails.
• Threat Assessment: Familiarity with the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs and AI-specific vulnerability scanning.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certifications: Azure Security Engineer Associate, Azure AI Engineer Associate, or CISSP/CCSP.

Granite delivers advanced communications and technology solutions to businesses and government agencies throughout the United States and Canada. We provide exceptional customized service with an emphasis on reliability and outstanding customer support and our customers include over 85 of the Fortune 100. Granite has over $1.85 Billion in revenue with more than 2,100 employees and is headquartered in Quincy, MA. Our mission is to be the leading telecommunications company wherever we offer services as well as provide an environment where the value of each individual is recognized and where each person has the opportunity to further their growth and achieve success.

Granite has been recognized by the Boston Business Journal as one of the "Healthiest Companies" in Massachusetts for the past 15 consecutive years.

Our offices have onsite fully equipped state of the art gyms for employees at zero cost.

Granite's philanthropy is unparalleled with over $300 million in donations to organizations such as Dana Farber Cancer Institute, The ALS Foundation and the Alzheimer's Association to name a few.

We have been consistently rated a "Fastest Growing Company" by Inc. Magazine.

Granite was named to Forbes List of America's Best Employers 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Granite was recently named One of Forbes Best Employers for Diversity.

Our company's insurance package includes health, dental, vision, life, disability coverage, 401K retirement with company match, childcare benefits, tuition assistance, and more.

If you are a highly motivated individual who wants to grow your career with a fast paced and progressive company, Granite has countless opportunities for you.

EOE/M/F/Vets/Disabled

General Summary of Position:

The Manager of Information Security leads Granite's enterprise security program, ensuring the protection of corporate systems, applications, cloud platforms, and data across the entire business. This role drives the strategy, implementation, and continuous improvement of security policies, controls, and processes while enabling secure operations across IT, Engineering, Operations, Legal, and customerfacing teams. It oversees vulnerability management, cloud security (GCP and AWS), identity and access management, application security, incident response, and thirdparty risk, ensuring security is embedded into technology decisions and business initiatives. The position also maintains focused support for governmentrelated compliance activities, such as NISTbased requirements and limited ATO documentation, representing a smaller but important portion of the role. Overall, the Senior Manager provides crossfunctional leadership to strengthen Granite's security posture, reduce risk, and support the organization's operational and strategic goals

Duties and Responsibilities:

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• Oversee and manage Granite's enterprise wide Information Security Program, ensuring
  protection of corporate systems, data, applications, cloud environments, and business
  operations across all departments (IT, Engineering, Legal, Ops, Customer facing
  teams).
  
• Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of corporate
  security policies, standards, procedures, and supporting governance documents.
  
• Direct vulnerability management activities across infrastructure, cloud, and
  applications; coordinate remediation with engineering, DevOps, and operations teams;
  validate fixes through scanning and ongoing monitoring.
  
• Oversee cloud security for GCP and AWS, ensuring secure configuration, access
  control, and alignment with best practices.
  
• Drive secure architecture reviews, application security requirements, and SDLC
  security integration for internal products.
  
• Partner with Engineering, Infrastructure, DevOps, and Network teams to evaluate
  system changes, cloud migrations, firewall updates, and new deployments to ensure
  security requirements and risk mitigations are properly addressed.
  
• Lead incident response activities-coordinate triage, communicate with stakeholders,
  review root causes, and ensure corrective actions and preventative measures are
  implemented.
  
• Manage enterprise identity and secrets programs, including MFA requirements, SSO
  implementation, service account lifecycle, least privilege enforcement, and secure
  credential rotation.
  
• Guide third party risk management, review vendor documentation, determine required
  evidence levels, and assess security impact of new or ongoing vendors.
  
• Provide security guidance and support for business processes, system enhancements,
  corporate initiatives, new integrations, and technology transformations across the
  organization.
  
• Lead recurring enterprise security meetings to align IT, Engineering, Legal, Audit, and
  business leaders on priorities, risks, and remediation activities.
  
• Ensure proper data handling practices across the business, including the identification
  and removal of sensitive or regulated data from email, local drives, Teams, and other
  systems.
  
• Support corporate continuity and resilience activities, including business impact
  analysis, response planning, and readiness validation.
  
• * Provide accurate, timely responses to security questionnaires, proposals, and customer
  inquiries across business units; contribute security content for RFPs, audits, and partner
  assessments.
  
• Maintain compliance for federal BSS/GBSS systems under NIST SP 800 53 / 800 171
  and GSA requirements; update SSPs; and support ATO assessments as needed.
  
• Provide federal agencies (e.g., GSA, DARPA) with required security documentation,
  system diagrams, and responses when requested.
  
• Perform other duties as required
  
• Obtain/retain a government security clearance as may be required to perform the duties
  of the position
  

Required Qualifications:

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• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Assurance,
  or equivalent experience.
  
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain Public Trust (Tier 2) or other federal security
  clearances.
  
• Handson experience implementing NIST SP 80053, NIST SP 800171, SOC 2, PCIDSS, RMF, and FISMA Moderate controls in enterprise environments.
  
• Demonstrated experience with SSP writing, ATO packages, security assessments, and
  continuous monitoring activities.
  
• Experience with cloud security in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web
  Services (AWS). Familiarity with application security best practices (OWASP, SDLC integration,
  
• SAST/DAST scanning workflows).
  
• Ability to interpret and communicate security requirements to engineering, legal, and
  operations teams.
  
• Experience supporting vendor risk reviews, questionnaire responses, and assessment of
  thirdparty security materials.
  
• Experience with security controls in a converged infrastructure/virtual machine
  environment
  
• Experience developing information system security plans, policies, and procedures for
  Local Area Network (LAN) information systems and wide area network (WAN)
  information systems
  
• Strong crossteam leadership, communication, and documentation skills.
  

• Basic Life Support (BLS) within 30 days - American Heart Association (AHA)
• Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) Training within 3 months.

• Ensures patient, visitor and staff safety by following policies/procedures and adhering to the National Patient Safety Goals
• Sets behavioral limits on patients according to hospital and ED policies
• De-escalates patients utilizing CPI techniques
• Takes initiative in making decisions and taking immediate action to ensure safety
• Participates in application of seclusion/restraints when appropriate; provides monitoring of patients in such situations; completes appropriate documentation, including restriction of rights forms
• Participates in patient and staff debriefing
• Interfaces effectively with Behavioral Health, ED and Security staff to promote a safe environment; calls for additional assistance if needed
• Provides supportive care to patients and families when appropriate
• Continuously monitors video/audio equipment to ensure patient, visitor and staff safety, and/or makes “rounds” in the immediate patient care area
• Completes electronic event reports as indicated

• Serves as a point of entry for the Behavioral Health Service Line
• Answers all calls in a timely manner
• Ensures patients are treated with respect and dignity
• Obtains pertinent information from referral sources seeking patient admission to effectively and efficiently triage requests for services
• Assists in facilitating admissions or making referrals to appropriate resources
• Utilizes collected data to triage Behavioral Health patients and ensure appropriate level of care is recommended
• Ensures compliance with legal components of admissions/treatment recommendations (mental health code, confidentiality act, voluntary/involuntary admissions, patients’ rights, obtaining releases of information)
• Assists in administering/scoring assessment scales per protocol as needed
• Documents assessment thoroughly using assessment forms; completes information about disposition and steps taken to reach decision
• Documents interventions in a succinct and goal directed manner using DAIR format
• Incorporates Recovery principles in all therapeutic interventions
• Provides support, sets limits, and/or facilitates learning from the situation if/when providing direct patient care

• Actively promotes and achieves customer satisfaction (patient, family, departments and physicians)
• Assists in completing chart audits and compiling other data to evaluate performance
• Compiles and assists in analyzing intake, utilization and patient flow data
• Generates ideas for improving processes, treatment, and patient care
• Participates in Root Cause Analyses and assists in development of action plans and implementation of action plans

• Educates Behavioral Health patients/families/significant others about the Behavioral Health Service Line
• Possesses a working knowledge of community services
• Assists in referring patients to the most clinically appropriate setting
• Assists in making arrangements for recommended services (for example, makes appointments with follow up providers, etc.)
• Documents patients' requests for services, suggested referrals and disposition of such
• Incorporates Recovery principles in disposition planning
• Assists in conducting follow up “surveys” to ensure patient’s' needs were met (patient satisfaction, follow up appointments, etc.)
• Assists with removing any barriers patients/families encounter with recommendations
• Acts as a patient advocate to gain access to community services
• Maintains solid working relationships with other community providers
• Recognizes and reports abuse/neglect situations as required by law

Investments Accounting Associate II - Securities

Investment Controllership

Full-Time

Boston, MA or Springfield, MA

About the Corporate Controller Organization:

The Controllers Organization is responsible for delivering on the foundation of credibility and control of the core financial information leveraged across Finance to communicate with leadership, key business partners and regulators on the enterprise’s actual results, forecast implications and strategic decision making.  This work considers legal entity structures, distribution channel, and product results as well as how these impact our capital optimization and operating liquidity.

We are a diverse group of professionals experienced in and responsible for accounting, financial reporting, tax, policy and controls, cash operations, corporate finance data and systems management as well as wealth management finance activities.  We are seeking engaging professionals with strong communication skills and deep intellectual curiosity to ensure the timely and efficient reporting of results. We not only perform the required activities. We are looked to as business partners who add value by challenging existing operating practices strengthening controls and highlighting trends and insights.

The Opportunity

This Investments Accounting Associate role is a newly created position that will be a key addition to our Investment Controllership team within the Controllers organization.  The position reports to the Director of Securities Accounting and Controllership and resides within the Financial Controllership team, a critical team within the Controllers Organization which aspires to be best in class financial stewards for MassMutual. We are forward-thinking and seek others who will leverage their curiosity and take initiative. Join us as a partner who will work collaboratively and with determination to leave the company in a better place than you found it. As an Accounting Associate in our Investments Accounting area, you will be a key contributor on the team that manages and executes investment accounting and analysis, including oversight of financial reporting outcomes of all MassMutual investment products. This is an opportunity for an individual who thrives in a highly dynamic and agile accounting environment to collaborate across teams focused on solid execution and improving outcomes.  We are seeking an accounting professional who wants to join a highly motivated team of professionals focused on proactively driving the development and execution of process improvements, meaningful analysis and improved coordination with the business partners for Investment activities.

The Team

As a member of the Financial Controllership Team, the incumbent will be involved in shaping the future of the organization, supporting both the on-going growth and analysis within the Investment Controllership team and other key initiatives.

The Impact:

• Thrives in a complex corporate structure and adapts to changing circumstances.

• Plays a key role in a collaborative and inclusive culture by working closely with Investment Management.

• Actively participate in the implementation of the Company’s new ledger and other key projects.

• Collaborate with various areas of the business executing appropriate remediation.

• Performs or reviews reconciliations of investment data for ledger tie outs. Reviews periodic journal entries.

• Participates in creating or reviewing and analyzing monthly financial analysis reports.

• Collaborate with internal teams to resolve items and address investment-related issues.

• Responsible for ongoing activities as part of the monthly, quarterly, and annual close cycles.

• Analyze financial reports and investment data for trends and impacts to investment values and P&L activity.

• Support annual regulatory financial statement audit requests.

• Participating in problem solving to improve quality, cycle times, and increase efficiencies.

• Makes recommendations to continuously improve the overall control environment of the Securities team.

• Participate in the research and implementation of new statutory and GAAP investment accounting.

The Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or related major

• At least 4 years of accounting or finance experience in a corporate environment

• Knowledge of GAAP and STAT accounting

The Ideal Qualifications

• CPA or CFA progress towards preferred

• Knowledge and experience of investments

• Prior exposure to investments, investment accounting, subsidiary ledger processing and related investment matters a plus!

• Strong analytical skills: ability to analyze financial data sets and tell the story of the data.

• Experience in identifying internal control issues and remediation efforts

• Able to build and maintain strong working relationships across cross-functional groups

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to express ideas and articulate in an organized and persuasive manner

• Ability to partner with business leaders and peers in investment process redesign and improvements

• Intellectual curiosity to continue learning and adding breadth and depth to understanding

What to Expect as Part of MassMutual and the Team

• Regular meetings with the Financial Controllership Team 
• Focused one-on-one meetings with your manager 
• Networking opportunities including access to Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, African American, women, LGBTQIA+, veteran and disability-focused Business Resource Groups 
• Access to learning content on Degreed and other informational platforms 
• Your ethics and integrity will be valued by a company with a strong and stable ethical business with industry leading pay and benefits 

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