Lead Security Architect – Cloud Data & AI Platforms

Senior Cloud Data & AI Security Leader
Defined and led the security architecture, strategy, and roadmap for enterprise cloud-based data, analytics, and AI platforms.
Implemented Zero Trust security principles across identity, network, application, and data layers to reduce risk and strengthen platform resilience.
Established identity and access management controls, including SSO, MFA, RBAC, privileged access governance, and secrets management.
Developed and enforced data protection strategies, including encryption, key management, data classification, masking, tokenization, and privacy controls for sensitive and regulated information.
Designed secure cloud network and infrastructure architectures, leveraging segmentation, private connectivity, firewall controls, and industry security benchmarks.
Led governance, risk, and compliance initiatives to support regulatory and industry frameworks, ensuring security controls were auditable and consistently applied across environments.
Integrated data governance, monitoring, logging, and SIEM capabilities to enable threat detection, policy enforcement, audit readiness, and forensic investigations.
Established security and Responsible AI frameworks, incorporating model governance, secure AI development practices, API protections, and controls to prevent unauthorized data exposure.
Directed incident preparedness and response activities, partnering with security operations teams to strengthen detection, response, recovery, and continuous improvement processes.
Served as a strategic liaison between cybersecurity, engineering, and data teams, championing security-by-design, DevSecOps, automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
Advised senior leadership on cybersecurity risk, cloud security strategy, emerging threats, and security investment priorities.
Qualifications
10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, cloud architecture, and enterprise platform security, including leadership of large-scale cloud data and AI environments.
Expertise in cloud security, IAM, data protection, network security, DevSecOps, SIEM integration, and regulatory compliance.
Strong knowledge of securing modern cloud analytics, data lake, data warehouse, and AI/ML platforms.
Experienced in translating regulatory, business, and risk requirements into scalable technical security controls.
Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, and cloud security certifications preferred