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:

• 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
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  Bridging gaps between data scientists, engineers, AI Architects, Cloud Architects, Data Protection professionals, legal, and executive teams.
• Security Evangelism
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  Promoting secure-by-design principles across AI and Cloud initiatives.
• Mentorship & Governance
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  Leading security teams and establishing governance frameworks for AI and Public Cloud adoption.

• Understanding of AI/ML Risks
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  Knowledge of adversarial attacks, model poisoning, data drift, and bias.
• Model Connectivity & Secure Deployment
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  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
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  Securing data pipelines, training environments, inference APIs, and monitoring systems.

• Zero Trust & Identity Management
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  Designing architectures that enforce least privilege and secure identity across AI and Cloud systems.
• Cloud & Hybrid Security
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  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
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  Lead architectural requirements and gain consensus on the use of reusable, scalable patterns for secure AI integration.

• API & Data Security
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  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
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  Designing secure integration points between AI systems and enterprise platforms.
• Public Cloud Integration
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  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
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  Designed procedures for organization wide governance on the usage/approval of AI Models.

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

• 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
• Extensive knowledge of development practices of security technologies
• Exceptional leadership skills demonstrated through project or technical leadership experience
• Expert-level ability to understand overall IT strategy and apply/implement IT strategy in assigned projects/initiatives
• Expert-level ability to communicate highly complex technical information clearly and articulately at all levels and audiences.
• Extensive experience with defense in depth, trust levels, privileges and permissions

• 2 or more years cloud security experience Identity
• Access Management experience with employee and consumer identity security
• Experience securing API's Health care industry related experience
• Experience using Agile methodology

• Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally to move objects.
• Jobs are sedentary if traversing activities are required only occasionally.

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