Senior AI Security Architect

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. The role partners 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.

DPP is seeking a Senior AI Security Architect for an opportunity with our client in the healthcare insurance industry.
 
Work Location: Hybrid in Columbia, SC; onsite Tues, Wed, Thurs and as needed
Duration: 12 months
Terms: W2 Contract
 
Responsibilities:

• The AI Security Architect within the Office of the Chief Information Security Officer supports the secure adoption of artificial intelligence by translating AI risk, security, privacy, and compliance requirements into practical architecture patterns, control requirements, and implementation guidance.
• The role partners 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.

Required Education:

• 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’s degree in Computer Science, Business or Engineering.

Required Experience:

• 9 years of IT experience.
• Possesses a track record of successfully managing joint IS/Business teams through strategic challenges in meeting business objectives.
• Experience with LLM Security Testing Tools:
  • GARAK
  • RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) Validation
  • Prompt Engineering & Regression Testing

Preferred Work Experience:

• 10 years of related business and architecture experience.

Preferred Licenses and Certificates:

• Completion of SACP and/or PMCP courses.

Authorized US Worker - US Citizens and those authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time.
 
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 DP Professionals (DPP) offers a range of compensation and benefits packages to our employees and their eligible dependents. DPP is a certified Woman-owned Small Business Enterprise (WBE and WOSB) with more than 25 years in the staffing industry. EOE/AA/V/D