Security Architect

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

• 15–27 yrs of experience
• IAM
• OWASP
• Cloud security
• CISM
• ISO 27001
• LLMs
• B.Sc or B.Tech or B.E. or BCA

Good to have

• CISSP
• CISA
• Azure
• AWS
• GCP
• Data privacy