AI Security Architect (Hybrid)

We're hiring an AI Security Architect to join our team in Columbia, SC. This role offers a hybrid schedule, with onsite work required Tuesday through Thursday.

Work Authorization: U.S. citizens and Green Card holders only. Sponsorship is not available for this role; no C2C or third-party candidates. Candidates must be able to work on our W2.

Skills & Qualifications:

• 9 years of IT experience
• Preferred work experience: 10 years of related business and architecture experience
• Track record of successfully managing joint IS/Business teams through strategic challenges in meeting business objectives
• Excellent negotiation and decision-making skills
• Demonstrated ability to build network and collaborative relationships throughout complex organizations
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical approaches to all levels of non-technical and technical staff, management, and end users
• Able to lead dynamic, energized, and highly creative multidisciplinary work teams in a matrix environment to respond to company business needs

• Supports the secure adoption of artificial intelligence across the organization by:
  • Translating AI risk, security, privacy, and compliance requirements into practical architecture patterns, control requirements, and implementation guidance
  • Partnering closely with Enterprise Architecture, I/S delivery teams, Data Governance, Privacy, IAM, Vendor Risk, CSOC, Legal, Compliance, Audit, and business owners to ensure AI solutions are designed, reviewed, monitored, and operated with appropriate safeguards
• Establish AI security architecture standards: Develop, maintain, and communicate enterprise AI security reference architectures, minimum control requirements, secure design patterns, and implementation guidance for approved AI tools, models, integrations, connectors, plugins, and AI-enabled applications
• Review AI use cases and solution designs: Perform architecture reviews for proposed AI solutions to validate data handling, access controls, encryption, logging, monitoring, retention, output handling, and integration safeguards before implementation.
• Lead AI threat modeling: Conduct threat-model reviews for priority AI use cases and vendors, with focus on prompt injection, data leakage, unauthorized access, model misuse, insecure connectors, machine identity exposure, and AI-enabled impersonation risks.
• Provide technical expertise on decisions and priorities regarding the organization's overall systems architecture
• Ensure business requirements are enabled using approved architecture concepts
• Provide consultative services to high-level clients for their set of applications
• Provide oversight to project teams to ensure technical risks and opportunities are considered and appropriately addressed in business initiatives and decisions
• Work closely with senior application development staff to ensure products meet analysis, design, and development standards for various operating environments
• Work with Design Architecture to set architectural direction for set of assigned applications

Education/Certifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business, or Engineering; OR
• 4 years of job-related work experience; OR
• 2 years of job-related experience plus an associate degree in Computer Science, Business, or Engineering
• Preferred Licenses and Certificates: Completion of SACP and/or PMCP courses

Ideal Candidate:

The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in IT with at least 9 years of experience. They should demonstrate excellent negotiation and decision-making skills, along with a proven ability to develop and release quality products on time. The candidate should be skilled in building collaborative relationships within complex organizations and have a deep understanding of current application or system development methodologies. Effective communication skills are essential, as is the ability to lead multidisciplinary work teams. A thorough knowledge of technologies, architecture, and business practices is required.

The hourly rate for this position is $90.81.

TM Floyd & Company is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability.

We offer a generous array of benefits, depending on the length of assignment. We also offer a referral bonus of up to $1,000. Ask us for more details!

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