Digital - AI Security Architect - Senior Manager

Huron is a global consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive strategic growth, ignite innovation and navigate constant change. Through a combination of strategy, expertise and creativity, we help clients accelerate operational, digital and cultural transformation, enabling the change they need to own their future. 

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Huron is seeking a senior-level AI Security Architect to help clients design, secure, and scale enterprise AI and generative AI solutions. This role combines hands-on technical architecture with client-facing advisory, focusing on security, risk management, and governance across the AI lifecycle.
You will serve as a trusted advisor to clients, helping them deploy AI responsibly while addressing emerging security threats and regulatory requirements. This is a senior individual contributor role with no direct reports, requiring both deep technical expertise and the ability to guide client decisions.

Key Responsibilities

AI Architecture & Delivery

• Design and implementsecure AI and generative AI architectures across data, model development, deployment, and inference
• Embed security controls intoLLM, RAG, and agentic AI systems
• Guide architectural decisions ondata pipelines, model orchestration, APIs, and observability
• DesignAI auditability and observability solutions to support governance, monitoring, and incident response

Security, Risk & Governance

• Identify and mitigateAI-specific risks (e.g., prompt injection, data leakage, model poisoning, adversarial attacks)
• Conductthreat modeling, architecture risk assessments, and AI security testing (e.g., red teaming) for AI systems
• AssessAI supply chain risk, including model provenance, third-party models, and training data lineage
• Define and recommendAI security standards, policies, and MLSecOps practices aligned to regulatory and enterprise risk frameworks
• Translate technical risks intoexecutive-ready, business-aligned guidance

Client Advisory & Practice Contribution

• Act as atrusted advisor to client leaders on secure and responsible AI adoption
• Contribute toproposals, workshops, and AI security solution shaping
• Developreusable assets, reference architectures, and thought leadership

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience insoftware engineering, cybersecurity, or AI/ML, including architecture roles
• Proven experience deliveringsecure, production-grade AI or generative AI solutions
• Deep knowledge ofLLM-based and agentic AI architectures
• Strong understanding ofcloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP) and cloud security capabilities
• Expertise inidentity and access management (IAM), data protection, API security, and risk assessment
• Ability toassess and communicate technical risks in a business context
• Experience working inclient-facing environments with both technical and business stakeholders

Preferred Experience

• Deep expertise inAI security risks and controls, including OWASP Top 10 for LLMs, NIST AI RMF, or similar
• Experience securingagentic AI systems and autonomous workflows
• AI governance, policy development, andenterprise guardrails
• Experience withAI security testing, including adversarial testing approaches
• Implementation ofsecure AI lifecycle / MLSecOps practices
• Experience inregulated environments (e.g., HIPAA, SOX, FedRAMP, NIST 800-53)
• Relevant certifications (e.g.,CISSP, CCSP, cloud security certifications)

Why Huron

At Huron, we partner with clients to innovate responsibly—designing AI solutions that aresecure, compliant, and built to scale. Our teams combine deep technical expertise with a practical, results-oriented approach to help organizations realizelong-term value from AI.

The estimatedbase salary for this job is $175,000 - $195,000. The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron’s pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range for this job is $210,000 - $234,000. The job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs. The salary range information provided is in accordance with applicable state and local laws regarding salary transparency that are currently in effect and may be implemented in the future.

Position Level

Senior Manager

Country

United States of America