Security Architect
Tamil NaduFull-timeHybrid15–27 yrsPosted 1 week ago
Leadership cybersecurity role at Cognizant in Tamil Nadu. Needs 15+ years and a B.Sc, B.Tech or B.E.. Hybrid.
About the role
As an Associate Director – Security Architecture Assurance & AI Security Validation, you will lead Cognizant's Cybersecurity Architecture & Risk (CAR) practice within the Extended CISO Tower, collaborating with the CISO Tower owner, Enterprise Architecture, IT Security, Compliance and business stakeholders.
What you'll do
- Establish and own an AI Security Validation capability – validating controls for LLMs, Generative AI and agentic AI against model poisoning, prompt injection
- Embed AI-TRiSM (AI Trust, Risk and Security Management) principles – model provenance, data lineage/tagging, guardrails, red-teaming and continuous monitoring
- Define and govern key performance metrics, KRIs and SLOs, ensuring validation deliverables and remediation follow-ups are met on time and reported to leadership
- Act as the primary liaison between Enterprise Architects, Design Review, CS and IT teams
- Provide deep subject-matter expertise in cybersecurity principles to manage risks across data use, processing, storage and transmission
What you need
- IAM
- OWASP
- Cloud security
- CISM
- ISO 27001
- LLMs
Good to have
- CISSP
- CISA
- Azure
- AWS
- GCP
- Data privacy