Principal Cloud and AI Security Architect

Principal Cloud and AI Security Architect

The Principal Cybersecurity Architect is responsible for driving enterprise-wide technology security strategy and providing technical expertise to business areas and project teams with an emphasis on implementation of innovative, leading-edge security technology solutions. The ideal candidate will display:

Strategic Leadership, Collaboration, and Accomplishments

• Proven Track Record of accomplishments and experience leading the design and deployment of AI Architectures (both On-Premise and Public Cloud) and driving and deploying Secure Cloud Adoption on an enterprise scale from Foundational Security Controls to Cloud migrations.
• Extensive experience migrating from a large scale onprem datacenter to the cloud while maintaining the proper levels of security, compliance and regulatory adherence.
• Cross-Functional Communication: Bridging gaps between data scientists, engineers, AI Architects, Cloud Architects, Data Protection professionals, legal, and executive teams.
• Security Evangelism: Promoting secure-by-design principles across AI and Cloud initiatives.
• Mentorship & Governance: Leading security teams and establishing governance frameworks for AI and Public Cloud adoption.

AI-Specific Security Expertise

• Understanding of AI/ML Risks: Knowledge of adversarial attacks, model poisoning, data drift, and bias.
• Model Connectivity & Secure Deployment: Leadership experience with connecting User Interfaces to LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation “RAG” solutions, Agent to Agent architecture design, and securing Model Context Protocol “MCP” deployments, both on-premise and in the cloud.
• AI Lifecycle Security: Securing data pipelines, training environments, inference APIs, and monitoring systems.

Enterprise Security Architecture

• Zero Trust & Identity Management: Designing architectures that enforce least privilege and secure identity across AI and Cloud systems.
• Cloud & Hybrid Security: Expertise in securing AI workloads across AWS and Azure, and on-prem environments.
• Experience leading the Secure design of Cloud Foundational Controls across AWS and Azure.
• Security Design Patterns: Lead architectural requirements and gain consensus on the use of reusable, scalable patterns for secure AI integration.

Technical Depth in AI & Cloud Infrastructure

• API & Data Security: Securing AI APIs, leading design discussions on strategies to protect data within AI solutions, managing data access controls, designing secure MCP solutions and preventing data leakage.
• AI System Integration: Designing secure integration points between AI systems and enterprise platforms.
• Public Cloud Integration: Proven track record of driving an Enterprise on Public Cloud Foundational controls and taking a leadership role on Secure Cloud migrations from on-Premise to Public Cloud solutions.
• Model Usage Procedures: Designed procedures for organization wide governance on the usage/approval of AI Models.

Regulatory & Compliance Knowledge

• Healthcare Regulations: Deep familiarity with HIPAA, NIST and emerging AI and Cloud governance frameworks.
• Audit & Risk Management: Ability to design systems that meet audit requirements, mitigate compliance risks, and ensuring Public Cloud environments maintain Audit Readiness.

What We Require

• 6+ years related work experience as an Architect working on progressively complex IT and Cybersecurity projects
• Related Bachelor’s degree or additional related equivalent work experience
• IT related field
• Required Licenses and Certifications: CISSP - Cert Information Systems Security Prof (180 Days)
• Expert proficiency in creating architectural designs for gradually complex designs
• Expert consulting, negotiating, communicating, consensus building, presentation and facilitation skills
• Mastery of a variety of hardware platforms including mainframes, distributed platforms, desktops, and mobile devices.
• Expert-level knowledge and experience applying current and emerging technology solutions and trends including security and regulatory industry requirements
• Demonstrated decision-making skills related to implementing architecture and design
• Knowledge of Project Management Methodologies
• Extensive knowledge of development practices of security technologies
• Exceptional leadership skills demonstrated through project or technical leadership experience
• Expert-level ability to understand overall IT strategy and apply/implement IT strategy in assigned projects/initiatives
• Expert-level ability to communicate highly complex technical information clearly and articulately at all levels and audiences.
• Extensive experience with defense in depth, trust levels, privileges and permissions

What We Prefer

• 2 or more years cloud security experience
• Identity Access Management experience with employee and consumer identity security
• Experience securing API’s
• Health care industry related experience
• Experience using Agile methodology

General Physical Demands

• Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally to move objects.
• Jobs are sedentary if traversing activities are required only occasionally.

What We Offer

As a Florida Blue employee, you will thrive in our Be Well, Work Well, GuideWell culture where being well as an individual, and working well as a team, are both important in serving our members and communities.

To support your wellbeing, comprehensive benefits are offered. As an employee, you will have access to:

• Medical, dental, vision, life and global travel health insurance
• Income protection benefits: life insurance, short- and long-term disability programs
• Leave programs to support personal circumstances
• Retirement Savings Plan including employer match
• Paid time off, volunteer time off, 10 holidays and 2 well-being days
• Additional voluntary benefits available; and a comprehensive wellness program

Employee benefits are designed to align with federal and state employment laws. Benefits may vary based on the state in which work is performed. Benefits for intern, part-time and seasonal employees may differ.

To support your financial wellbeing, we offer competitive pay as well as opportunities for incentive or commission compensation. We also conduct regular annual reviews with pay for performance considerations for base pay increases.

Targeted Annualized Offer Range: $138,200 - $172,800

Annualized Salary Range: $138,200 - $224,600

Final pay will be determined with consideration of market competitiveness, internal equity, and the job-related knowledge, skills, training, and experience you bring.

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to cultivating a work experience where everyone feels like they belong and can perform at their best in pursuit of our mission. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.

Key skills/competency

• Cloud Security Architecture
• AI Security
• Cybersecurity Strategy
• AWS Security
• Azure Security
• Zero Trust Architecture
• Identity and Access Management
• API Security
• Risk Management
• HIPAA Compliance