LeadSecurityEngineer

Why Wellmark : We are a mutual insurance company owned by our policy holders across Iowa and South Dakota, and we’ve built our reputation on over 80 years’ worth of trust. We are not motivated by profits. We are motivated by the well-being of our friends, family, and neighbors–our members. If you’re passionate about joining an organization working hard to put its members first, to provide best-in-class service, and one that is committed to sustainability and innovation, consider applying today! Why Wellmark Technology? Wellmark is building innovative, modern solutions using cutting edge technology. We are driving organizational transformation and business strategy by empowering our technology team to innovate new and elegant solutions to enhance the customer experience. Together, we are leaning into the future, owning the outcome, and driving organizational change to transform how we work. We are seeking a Lead Security Engineer with deep experience securing enterprise systems, cloud platforms, and agent‑based AI development environments at scale. This role is hands‑on and execution‑focused, responsible for defining guardrails around AI workloads across the full lifecycle—development, deployment, training, and inference. The ideal candidate combines production grade AI engineering with advanced expertise in cloud security, DevSecOps, identity, and governance, enabling organizations to adopt GenAI, Microsoft Agents, and AI‑assisted code generation platforms safely and at scale. This role aligns closely to modern Engineer expectations, with a specialization in AI platform security, and risk‑aware AI delivery. What you will do: * Secure corporate AI capabilities used in enterprise applications * Establish Best Practices for model implementation, versioning, monitoring and governance for AI Systems on the Enterprise. * Design/Implement guardrails for AI code‑generation tools used in developer workflows * Enable and implement safe AI‑assisted development across IDEs, CI/