Security Architect

The Role: 

Joining Moderna means advancing mRNA science to transform medicine. Work with exceptional global teams on a broad pipeline and build a career that makes a real difference for patients.

Moderna is strengthening its international business services hub in Warsaw, supporting our growing global operations. We welcome professionals ready to help advance our mission and shape the future of mRNA medicines.

This is an opportunity to define how AI is adopted securely across Moderna by shaping the enterprise security strategy for emerging AI technologies. As a senior individual contributor, you will establish the architectural principles, governance guardrails, and security standards that enable safe, scalable AI adoption while partnering with engineering, digital, platform, and security teams across the organization. Alongside deep expertise in AI security, you will apply broad cybersecurity knowledge across cloud, applications, identity, networking, and APIs to help reduce enterprise risk and support the responsible adoption of Generative AI and agentic solutions.

Here’s What You’ll Do:

• Define and drive Moderna's enterprise AI security strategy, establishing target-state architecture, security principles, governance guardrails, and scalable security patterns that enable secure AI adoption.

• Develop practical security standards and architectural guidance for AI systems, including model usage, agentic workflows, integration patterns, data access, identity boundaries, and operational security controls.

• Lead security assessments and risk reviews for AI applications, AI-enabled products, model-integrated services, and agentic solutions, identifying material risks related to data exposure, excessive privilege, insecure integrations, unsafe outputs, prompt abuse, and runtime behavior.

• Execute baseline security reviews across traditional technology domains, including application code, cloud infrastructure, networking, APIs, identity, and application architecture.

• Identify systemic security control gaps and recommend pragmatic remediation strategies that improve security outcomes across both AI and traditional enterprise technology environments.

• Provide architectural guidance and technical leadership that supports secure-by-design engineering decisions while balancing innovation, operational effectiveness, and enterprise risk.

• Deliver executive-ready recommendations on AI security risks, architectural trade-offs, governance priorities, and enterprise security strategy.

• Partner closely with engineering, platform, digital, and cybersecurity teams to embed security throughout AI initiatives and broader technology programs.

• Influence enterprise roadmaps and security practices that support the safe, responsible, and scalable adoption of Generative AI capabilities across the organization.

The key Moderna Mindsets you'll need to succeed in the role:

We question convention because proven models don’t always fuel the future.

We behave like owners. The solutions we’re building go beyond any job description.

Here’s What You’ll Bring to the Table:

• 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with a focus on network security, application security, and risk assessment.

• Expertise in hybrid network environments, including on-prem and cloud security architectures (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

• Experience defining security strategy and architecture for enterprise technology initiatives, with the ability to build practical standards, patterns, and guardrails that scale.

• Demonstrated expertise in AI security, including security assessment of AI applications, model-integrated services, agentic workflows, data handling patterns, and attack paths unique to AI-enabled systems.

• Strong ability to translate emerging AI risk into enterprise security strategy, architectural guidance, governance controls, and risk-based adoption decisions.

• Sufficient technical breadth to execute solid baseline security reviews across traditional domains including code, cloud, networking, APIs, identity, and application architecture.

• Ability to identify insecure design decisions, translate technical findings into prioritized recommendations, and influence remediation across multiple teams.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex architectural and risk issues to engineers, architects, and senior leaders.

• Demonstrated leadership, strong judgment, and comfort operating in ambiguous environments with rapidly evolving technology and risk.

• Experience in large-scale or regulated environments is strongly preferred.

Pay & Benefits

At Moderna, we believe that when you feel your best, you can do your best work.  That’s why our benefits and well-being resources are designed to support you—at work, at home, and everywhere in between.

• Competitive healthcare, plus voluntary benefit programs to support your unique needs
• A holistic approach to well-being with access to fitness, mindfulness, and mental health support
• Family building benefits, including fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support
• Generous paid time off, including vacation, bank holidays, volunteer days, sabbatical, global recharge days, and a discretionary year-end shutdown
• Savings and investments to help you plan for the future
• Location-specific perks and extras

The benefits offered may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Moderna and the country where you work.

About Moderna

Since our founding in 2010, we have aspired to build the leading mRNA technology platform, the infrastructure to reimagine how medicines are created and delivered, and a world-class team. We believe in giving our people a platform to change medicine and an opportunity to change the world.  

By living our mission, values, and mindsets every day, our people are the driving force behind our scientific progress and our culture. Together, we are creating a culture of belonging and building an organization that cares deeply for our patients, our employees, the environment, and our communities. 

We are proud to have been recognized as a Science Magazine Top Biopharma Employer, a Fast Company Best Workplace for Innovators, and a Great Place to Work in the U.S. 

As we build our company, we have always believed an in-person culture is critical to our success. Moderna champions the significant benefits of in-office collaboration by embracing a 70/30 work model. This 70% in-office structure helps to foster a culture rich in innovation, teamwork, and direct mentorship. Join us in shaping a world where every interaction is an opportunity to learn, contribute, and make a meaningful impact. 

If you want to make a difference and join a team that is changing the future of medicine, we invite you to visit modernatx.com/careers to learn more about our current opportunities. 

Moderna is a smoke-free, alcohol-free, and drug-free work environment. 

Moderna is a place where everyone can grow. If you meet the Basic Qualifications for the role and you would be excited to contribute to our mission every day, please apply! 

Moderna is committed to equal opportunity in employment and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person's race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, ancestry or citizenship, ethnicity, disability, military or protected veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital or familial status, or any other personal characteristic protected under applicable law. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 

We’re focused on attracting, retaining, developing, and advancing our employees. By cultivating a workplace that values diverse experiences, backgrounds, and ideas, we create an environment where every employee can contribute their best. 

Moderna is committed to offering reasonable accommodation or adjustments to qualified job applicants with disabilities. Any applicant requiring an accommodation or adjustment in connection with the hiring process and/or to perform the essential functions of the position for which the applicant has applied should contact the Accommodations and Adjustments team at leavesandaccommodations@modernatx.com. 

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