Establish approved AI use cases and review new AI capabilities, platforms, and technologies.
Serve as the organization's AI security advisor and thought leader.
Monitor evolving AI regulations, cybersecurity threats, privacy requirements, and industry best practices.
Provide architectural oversight for Generative AI, AI agents, machine learning platforms, and AI-enabled SaaS solutions.
Define guardrails for the secure use of enterprise and public AI systems.
Data Security & AI Enablement
Work closely with Data Stewards and business stakeholders to classify, protect, and secure enterprise data used by AI systems.
Define security requirements governing how AI solutions access, process, store, and transmit corporate data.
Assist data owners with identifying, consolidating, protecting, and preparing data for AI consumption.
Ensure AI solutions align with enterprise data protection, privacy, sovereignty, retention, and compliance requirements.
Develop approved architectural patterns for AI access to sensitive, confidential, regulated, and intellectual property data.
Cloud Security Architecture
Serve as the lead cybersecurity architect for Microsoft Azure cloud security.
Design and maintain Azure security reference architectures, patterns, and standards.
Define cloud security guardrails, policies, and architectural principles that support secure cloud adoption.
Establish landing zone security requirements and governance models.
Define secure cloud archetypes and approved design patterns for business solutions.
Partner with Infrastructure and Cloud Engineering teams to implement cloud-native security capabilities.
Guide implementation of Zero Trust, identity security, network segmentation, encryption, logging, and monitoring controls across cloud environments.
Evaluate emerging Azure services and provide security architecture guidance.
Cloud Security Architecture
Serve as the lead cybersecurity architect for Microsoft Azure cloud security.
Design and maintain Azure security reference architectures, patterns, and standards.
Define cloud security guardrails, policies, and architectural principles that support secure cloud adoption.
Establish landing zone security requirements and governance models.
Define secure cloud archetypes and approved design patterns for business solutions.
Partner with Infrastructure and Cloud Engineering teams to implement cloud-native security capabilities.
Guide implementation of Zero Trust, identity security, network segmentation, encryption, logging, and monitoring controls across cloud environments.
Evaluate emerging Azure services and provide security architecture guidance.
Risk Management & Security Assessment
Participate in enterprise IT risk assessments and cybersecurity reviews.
Help modernize and streamline risk assessment methodologies and workflows.
Translate technical security risks into business language for stakeholders and leadership.
Perform security assessments on cloud, AI, SaaS, and emerging technology solutions.
Support regulatory, customer, and audit requirements through security architecture reviews and documentation.
Stakeholder Engagement & Leadership
Act as a trusted advisor to technical and business teams regarding AI and cloud security.
Provide education and guidance on secure AI adoption and cloud security best practices.
Influence strategic technology decisions through architectural leadership and risk-based recommendations.
Present security architecture guidance and recommendations to leadership, governance committees, and project teams.
This position has NO supervisory responsibilities
Required
Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred.
Minimum 8 years of experience in cybersecurity, cloud security, security architecture, or related disciplines.
Minimum 5 years of experience designing and securing Microsoft Azure or similar environments.
Demonstrated experience developing enterprise security architectures, standards, and governance frameworks.
Due to ITAR work requirements, Permanent Resident or US Citizen is required
Minimum 8 years’ experience with some of the following
Microsoft Azure or similar
Cloud Security Architecture
Data Security and Data Governance
Risk Assessments
Security Policy Development
Security Reference Architectures
Identity & Access Management
Zero Trust Architecture
SaaS Security
AI / Generative AI Security Concepts
CISSP or CISM, active certifications or ability to receive if hired
