Principal Cloud and AI Security Architect

The Principal Cybersecurity Architect is responsible for driving enterprise-wide technology security strategy and providing technical expertise to business areas and project teams with an emphasis on implementation of innovative, leading-edge security technology solutions.  The ideal candidate will display:

Strategic Leadership, Collaboration, and Accomplishments

• Proven Track Record of accomplishments and experience leading the design and deployment of AI Architectures (both On-Premise and Public Cloud) and driving and deploying Secure Cloud Adoption on an enterprise scale from Foundational Security Controls to Cloud migrations. Extensive experience migrating from a large scale onprem datacenter to the cloud while maintaining the proper levels of security, compliance and regulatory adherence. 
• Cross-Functional Communication: Bridging gaps between data scientists, engineers, AI Architects, Cloud Architects, Data Protection professionals, legal, and executive teams.
• Security Evangelism: Promoting secure-by-design principles across AI and Cloud initiatives.
• Mentorship & Governance: Leading security teams and establishing governance frameworks for AI and Public Cloud adoption. 

AI-Specific Security Expertise

• Understanding of AI/ML Risks: Knowledge of adversarial attacks, model poisoning, data drift, and bias.
• Model Connectivity & Secure Deployment: Leadership experience with connecting User Interfaces to LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation “RAG” solutions, Agent to Agent architecture design, and securing Model Context Protocol “MCP” deployments, both on-premise and in the cloud.
• AI Lifecycle Security: Securing data pipelines, training environments, inference APIs, and monitoring systems. 

Enterprise Security Architecture

• Zero Trust & Identity Management: Designing architectures that enforce least privilege and secure identity across AI and Cloud systems.
• Cloud & Hybrid Security: Expertise in securing AI workloads across AWS and Azure, and on-prem environments.      Experience leading the Secure design of Cloud Foundational Controls across AWS and Azure.
• Security Design Patterns: Lead architectural requirements and gain consensus on the use of reusable, scalable patterns for secure AI integration. 

Technical Depth in AI & Cloud Infrastructure

• API & Data Security: Securing AI APIs, leading design discussions on strategies to protect data within AI solutions, managing data access controls, designing secure MCP solutions and preventing data leakage.
• AI System Integration: Designing secure integration points between AI systems and enterprise platforms. 
• Public Cloud Integration: Proven track record of driving an Enterprise on Public Cloud Foundational controls and taking a leadership role on Secure Cloud migrations from on-Premise to Public Cloud solutions.
• Model Usage Procedures: Designed procedures for organization wide governance on the usage/approval of AI Models.  

Regulatory & Compliance Knowledge

• Healthcare Regulations: Deep familiarity with HIPAA, NIST and emerging AI and Cloud governance frameworks.
• Audit & Risk Management: Ability to design systems that meet audit requirements, mitigate compliance risks, and ensuring Public Cloud environments maintain Audit Readiness. 

What We Require 

• 6+ years related work experience as an Architect working on progressively complex IT and Cybersecurity projects 

• Related Bachelor’s degree or additional related equivalent work experience IT related field 

• Required Licenses and Certifications CISSP - Cert Information Systems Security Prof 180 Days 

• Expert proficiency in creating architectural designs for gradually complex designs 

• Expert consulting, negotiating, communicating, consensus building, presentation and facilitation skills 

• Mastery of a variety of hardware platforms including mainframes, distributed platforms, desktops, and mobile devices. 

• Expert-level knowledge and experience applying current and emerging technology solutions and trends including security and regulatory industry requirements 

• Demonstrated decision-making skills related to implementing architecture and design 

• Knowledge of Project Management Methodologies 

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