Job Title: AI Data Security Architect

City: Saint Louis

State/Province: Missouri

Posting Start Date: 6/8/26

Job Description:

Job Description

Title: Data Security Architect AI

Location: ST louis MO

Duration: Full time

Overview

seeking a Senior AI Security Technical Architect to continue to build upon a defined enterprise AI security strategy, ensuring artificial intelligence and generative AI capabilities are designed, deployed, and operated in a secure, compliant, and responsible manner.

This role is responsible for aligning business objectives, technology strategy, and security architecture to enable AI innovation with clear guardrails. The Senior AI Security Technical Architect will establish standards, patterns, and governance across multiple AI usage models, including third-party SaaS AI solutions, internally developed AI/ML platforms, and emerging agentic and autonomous AI systems.

By grounding AI security practices in industry frameworks such as NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF) and MITRE ATLAS, this role ensures AI risks are proactively identified, communicated, and mitigated while supporting the firm's broader digital transformation, cloud adoption, and regulatory obligations.

What You'll Do
• Own and evolve the enterprise AI security architecture and strategy, aligning business goals, technology platforms, and risk management practices.
• Assist in defining secure-by-design patterns and standards for AI/ML systems
• Establish and maintain AI-specific security artifacts
• Ensure consistent adoption of NIST AI RMF, MITRE ATLAS, CIS, ISO 27001 across AI initiatives.
• Establish architectural governance and enforce adherence to AI security standards across product teams and platforms.
• Influence AI design decisions early in the lifecycle to reduce downstream risk and rework.
• Partner with enterprise stakeholders to balance speed of innovation with risk tolerance and regulatory expectations.
• Evaluate AI frameworks, agents, vector databases, and third-party AI platforms for security posture and enterprise readiness.• Recommend and rationalize AI security tooling as part of the broader enterprise

security strategy.
• Monitor emerging AI threats, regulatory guidance, and industry best practices to inform security strategy and standards.

What Experience You'll Need
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8-12+ years of experience in cybersecurity engineering or architecture within a complex enterprise environment.
• 2-4+ years of hands-on experience securing or reviewing AI/ML systems and platforms.

• Strong understanding of:

o LLM architectures, embeddings, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) patterns

o End-to-end ML pipelines (training → validation → deployment → inference)

o AI model supply chain risks (model registries, containers, dependencies, open-source components)

o Zero Trust and identity-centric security models

o Cloud security across Azure, AWS, and GCP
• Proven ability to influence architecture decisions and lead cross-functional initiatives at the enterprise level.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage senior technical and business leaders.

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Do

1. Design and develop enterprise cyber security strategy and architecture

a. Understand security requirements by evaluating business strategies and conducting system security vulnerability and risk analyses

b. Identify risks associated with business processes, operations,

information security programs and technology projects

c. Identify and communicate current and emerging security threats and design security architecture elements to mitigate threats as they emerge

d. Identify security design gaps in existing and proposed architectures and recommend changes or enhancements

e. Provide product best fit analysis to ensure end to end security covering different faucets of architecture e.g. Layered security, Zoning, Integration aspects, API, Endpoint security, Data security, Compliance and regulations

f. Demonstrate experience in doing security assessment against NIST Frameworks, SANS, CIS, etc.

g. Provide support during technical deployment, configuration, integration and administration of security technologies

h. Demonstrate experience around ITIL or Key process-oriented domains like incident management, configuration management, change management, problem management etc.

i. Provide assistance for disaster recovery in the event of any security breaches, attacks, intrusions and unusual, unauthorized or illegal activity

j. Provide solution of RFPâ€Â's received from clients and ensure overall design assurance

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i. Develop a direction to manage the portfolio of to-be-solutions including systems, shared infrastructure services, applications, hardware related to cyber risk security in order to better match business outcome objectives

ii. Analyse technology environment, enterprise specifics, client requirements to set a collaboration design framework/ architecture

iii. Depending on the clientâ€Â's need with particular standards and technology stacks create complete RFPs

iv. Provide technical leadership to the design, development and implementation of custom solutions through thoughtful use of modern technology

v. Define and understand current state solutions and identify improvements, options & tradeoffs to define target state solutions

vi. Clearly articulate and sell architectural targets, recommendations and reusable patterns and accordingly propose investment roadmaps

vii. Evaluate and recommend solutions to integrate with overall technology ecosystem

viii. Tracks industry and application trends and relates these to planning current and future IT needs

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2. Stakeholder coordination & audit assistance

a. Liaise with stakeholders in relation to cyber security issues and provide timely support and future recommendations

b. Provide assistance in maintaining an information security risk register and help with internal and external audits relating to information security

c. Support audit of security best practices and implementation of security principles across the organization, to meet business goals along with customer and regulatory requirements

d. Assist with the creation, maintenance and delivery of cyber security awareness training to team members and customers

e. Provide training to employees on issues such as spam and unwanted or malicious emails

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Deliver
No Performance Parameter Measure 1 Customer centricity Timely security breach solutioning to end users, Internal stakeholders & external customers experience, CSAT, educating and suggesting right control to the customers. 2 Support sales team to create wins % of proposals with Quality Index >7, timely support of the proposals, identifying opportunities/ leads to sell services within/ outside account (lead generation), no. of proposals led

Mandatory Skills: Data Security Consulting.

Experience: 8-10 Years.

The expected compensation for this role ranges from $80,000 to $158,000 .

Final compensation will depend on various factors, including your geographical location, minimum wage obligations, skills, and relevant experience. Based on the position, the role is also eligible for Wipro's standard benefits including a full range of medical and dental benefits options, disability insurance, paid time off (inclusive of sick leave), other paid and unpaid leave options.