Consultant - Senior Information Security Architect

ABOUT KALLES GROUP:

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We are seeking a Senior Information Security Architect to lead the security strategy, design, and implementation for a next-generation enterprise data platform leveraging Microsoft Azure, Snowflake, Databricks, Collibra, DBT Cloud and advanced AI/ML workloads for our client. This architect will serve as a technical leader and strategic partner, ensuring that our client's data platform meets the highest standards of security, privacy, and compliance while enabling high-velocity engineering and data science teams. Success in this role with provide reduced security incident risk across the data and AI platform, have successful audit and compliance outcomes tied to platform initiatives, and result in high engineering and data science velocity with minimal friction due to proactive security design.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

Security Architecture & Strategy

• Define the end-to-end security architecture for the enterprise data platform, including data ingestion, processing, analytics, and AI model deployment.
• Establish security-by-design principles across data engineering, ML pipelines, and analytics workflows in Snowflake and Databricks.
• Collaborate with data platform architects, engineers, and product owners to embed security controls at every layer of the stack.

Cloud & Data Platform Security

• Design and implement cloud-native security architectures for data services in AWS (or Azure), including IAM, VPCs, KMS, Secrets Manager, S3, and Lakehouse integrations.
• Ensure secure integration between Snowflake, Databricks, and AI/ML toolchains (e.g., MLflow, Feature Store, model serving frameworks).
• Establish least privilege access and RBAC models for data, models, APIs, and orchestration pipelines.

Governance, Risk & Compliance

• Partner with GRC teams to meet regulatory and compliance requirements (e.g., HIPAA, SOC2, ISO 27001).
• Lead risk assessments, threat modeling, and data classification efforts for platform workloads.
• Provide strategic input for data governance practices around lineage, usage monitoring, and audit logging.

Security Operations & Incident Readiness

• Integrate platform telemetry with SIEM and SOAR tools to monitor, alert, and investigate security events.
• Design secure CI/CD pipelines for data and ML operations, with artifact signing, scanning, and policy enforcement.
• Contribute to and test incident response plans involving sensitive data and AI system risks (e.g., model inversion, data leakage).

Leadership & Enablement

• Serve as security thought leader across the program, influencing roadmaps, policies, and engineering decisions.
• Mentor developers, engineers, and data scientists on secure development and data handling practices.
• Coordinate with internal security teams (AppSec, CloudSec, Risk) and external partners or auditors as needed.

ABOUT YOU:

• Your values:
  • Integrity: You believe in doing the right thing, even when it's uncomfortable, seemingly inefficient, or costly.
  • Purposefulness: You have a desire to serve others with your skillset and an openness to continuous learning and growth.
  • Ownership: You stick to your commitments, follow up with action, and seek clarity in communicat