Ai Security Architect

AI Security Architect

Job Description

Title:

AI Security Architect

Location:

Houston, TX – onsite

Duration:
Contract

You will help secure data pipelines, AI models, and platforms while also contributing to the development and deployment of AI-powered security solutions, including AI agents that automate or enhance security processes.

Responsibilities - AI Agents & Automation

• Support the design and creation of AI agents that enhance information security capabilities.
• Create and maintain automated agents to handle mundane and repeatable security requests, such as:
• Access and entitlement reviews
• Evidence collection for audits and compliance
• Policy guidance and security FAQs
• Intake and triage of security questionnaires and risk assessments
• Security documentation and reporting
• Define and implement guardrails for AI agents, such as:
• Role-based access controls and least-privilege permissions
• Human-in-the-loop approvals for sensitive or high-risk actions
• Logging, monitoring, and auditability of agent activity
• Clear escalation paths when confidence thresholds or policy boundaries are exceeded
• Collaborate with engineering, data, and AI teams to integrate AI agents into existing workflows
• Test and validate AI-driven security tools to ensure accuracy, reliability, and ethical use
• Participate in security reviews for new data and AI initiatives
• Define key performance indicators to measure the effectiveness of AI agent automation

Design and Develop Enterprise Cyber Security Strategy and Architecture

• Understand security requirements by evaluating business strategies and conducting system security vulnerability and risk analyses
• Identify risks associated with business processes, operations, information security programs and technology projects
• Identify and communicate current and emerging security threats and design security architecture elements to mitigate threats as they emerge
• Identify security design gaps in existing and proposed architectures and recommend changes or enhancements
• Provide product best fit analysis to ensure end to end security covering different facets of architecture e.g. Layered security, Zoning, Integration aspects, API, Endpoint security, Data security, Compliance and regulations
• Demonstrate experience in doing security assessment against NIST Frameworks, SANS, CIS, etc.
• Provide support during technical deployment, configuration, integration and administration of security technologies
• Demonstrate experience around ITIL or key process-oriented domains like incident management, configuration management, change management, problem management, etc.
• Provide assistance for disaster recovery in the event of any security breaches, attacks, intrusions and unusual, unauthorized or illegal activity
• Provide solution of RFP's received from clients and ensure overall design assurance
• Develop a direction to manage the portfolio of to-be-solutions including systems, shared infrastructure services, applications, hardware related to cyber risk security in order to better match business outcome objectives
• Analyse technology environment, enterprise specifics, client requirements to set a collaboration design framework/architecture
• Depending on the client's need with particular standards and technology stacks create complete RFPs
• Provide technical leadership to the design, development and implementation of custom solutions through thoughtful use of modern technology
• Define and understand current state solutions and identify improvements, options & tradeoffs to define target state solutions
• Clearly articulate and sell architectural targets, recommendations and reusable patterns and accordingly propose investment roadmaps
• Evaluate and recommend solutions to integrate with overall technology ecosystem
• Tracks industry and application trends and relates these to planning current and future IT needs

Stakeholder Coordination & Audit Assistance

• Liaise with stakeholders in relation to cyber security issues and provide timely support and future recommendations
• Provide assistance in maintaining an information security risk register and help with internal and external audits relating to information security
• Support audit of security best practices and…