Security Architecture Assurance & AI Security - AD Level
People First Consultants
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. You will
own the independent validation that implemented controls meet Cognizant's security
reference architecture and design requirements before solutions go into
production – now extended to cover AI and Generative AI systems. You will have
the autonomy to lead, innovate, and industrialize control-validation workflows while
upholding our commitment to quality, Secure-by-Design and continuous learning.
As a team of self-starters, you can work with impact alongside our vibrant people
and culture, all while enjoying unmatched learning opportunities.
In this role, you will:
•Lead and mature the Security Control Evaluation function across platform,
infrastructure, application and vendor implementations (both on-prem and
cloud – AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI), ensuring controls meet Cognizant policies,
standards, regulatory requirements and industry best practices before
production.
•Establish and own an AI Security Validation capability – validating controls
for LLMs, Generative AI and agentic AI against model poisoning, prompt
injection, data poisoning/leakage, model inversion, adversarial and
deepfake attacks, aligned to NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, OWASP Top 10
for LLMs and MITRE ATLAS.
•Embed AI-TRiSM (AI Trust, Risk and Security Management) principles –
model provenance, data lineage/tagging, guardrails, red-teaming and
continuous monitoring – into the enterprise control-assurance lifecycle.
•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, and business stakeholders to close security control gaps
and drive remediation to closure.
•Provide deep subject-matter expertise in cybersecurity principles to manage
risks across data use, processing, storage and transmission, including cloud
security posture, network micro-segmentation and zero-trust validation.
•Strengthen Identity & Access Management (IAM) control validation –
privileged access, least-privilege, joiner-mover-leaver, and non-human /
machine and AI-agent identities.
•Incorporate Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) control checks into
vendor and SaaS/AI-vendor go-live validations, ensuring supply-chain and
model-supply-chain assurance.
•Build, mentor and coach a high-performing validation team, managing multiple
priorities, conflict resolution and stakeholder expectations.
•Stay current with emerging IT, cloud and AI/cybersecurity technologies and
continuously uplift the control library and validation playbooks.
•Embrace our vibrant culture by striving for excellence, focusing on meaningful
outcomes, and collaborating effectively. Take ownership, build relationships,
and focus on personal growth to drive business strategy and foster an
inclusive culture.
What you must have to be considered
•15+ years of experience in information security, including 6+ years in
security architecture / go-live control validation and 5+ years leading and
mentoring teams.
•Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology,
Cybersecurity or a related field.
•CISM (Certified Information Security Manager) – Required.
•Proven, hands-on experience validating security controls for cloud (AWS,
Azure, GCP, OCI) and on-prem solutions against a security reference
architecture.
•Demonstrated understanding of AI/ML and Generative AI security risks and
control frameworks (NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, OWASP LLM, MITRE
ATLAS).
•Strong grasp of IAM, TPRM, cloud security, network segmentation and
zero-trust control domains.
•Excellent analytical, problem-solving, project management and
stakeholder-leadership skills across functional teams.
•A strong sense of ownership, a desire to create meaningful outcomes, and
passion for work that serves a greater good for customers, communities, or
global challenges.
•The embodiment of Cognizant's Values: Work as One, Dare to Innovate,
Raise the Bar, Do the Right Thing, & Own It.
These will help you succeed
•CISSP, CISA, CCSK / CCSP – strongly preferred.
•Azure AZ-500 (Required-equivalent), SC-300 / SC-100 and cloud-provider
security certifications.
•Emerging AI security credentials (e.g., ISACA AAISM / AAIA, AI
governance certifications).
•ISO/IEC 42001 (AI Management System) Lead Auditor/Implementer – a
strong differentiator given this role's AI security validation scope.
•Experience with security automation, control-as-code, and continuous
controls monitoring (CCM).
•Exposure to regulatory and framework mappings – ISO 27001, NIST CSF,
SOC 2, PCI-DSS, GDPR/DPDP.
Work model
We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever
possible. Based on this role's business requirements, this is a hybrid position
requiring 2 days a week in a Cognizant office in Chennai/Bangalore/Pune, India.
Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life
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