Global Head of AI, ML & Cloud Security

GSK; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

GSK is seeking a Senior Director for AI ML & Cloud Security to lead a 17-role global function across the UK, India and the US. You will design, govern and elevate AI security standards, ML governance and cloud protection across Azure and GCP, partnering with CSO leadership to drive a strategic security architecture.

You’ll set policy, manage risk and engage regulators while shaping the future of secure AI at scale for GSK’s enterprise AI initiatives and data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Set the three-year plan that moves CSO security services from rule-based to agent-operated, and defend the investment case for it to the CISO and GSK Tech leadership.
• Own the architecture, engineering and secure delivery of the agentic framework transforming security services across the Chief Security Office – agent authorisation models, tool-invocation control, human-in-the-loop gates, trust boundaries and runtime monitoring, designed in from inception.
• Own the design-to-build-to-handover pipeline: specifications engineered faithfully, the data fabric built and tested to specification, and vendor handover packages good enough for a managed service to operate safely from day one.
• Own the AI security standards, reference architectures and threat models binding across CAS and every GSK business AI initiative; no AI capability is architected, built or released without meeting them.
• Lead a 17-role function across five sub-functions and three countries, including leaders of teams, and own its capability and succession plan in a genuinely scarce skills market.
• Own AI platform security governance: agent risk-tiering, LLM and API exposure standards, AI-specific incident response, and the shadow AI discovery programme across the business.
• Own cloud security governance across Azure and GCP on an advisory and standards-setting basis, exercising authority through standards and escalation while platform teams retain remediation.
• Own adversarial AI defence: AI red teaming, prompt and model attack testing, and the mandatory remediation regime that follows, informed by MITRE ATLAS and current research.
• Translate the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001 into architectural requirements ahead of mandated deadlines rather than in response to audit.
• Represent the function to the CISO, GSK Tech leadership, the Enterprise AI programme, auditors and regulators, and own board-level escalation of material AI security risk.

Job description

GSK is seeking a Senior Director for AI ML & Cloud Security to lead a 17-role global function across the UK, India and the US. You will design, govern and elevate AI security standards, ML governance and cloud protection across Azure and GCP, partnering with CSO leadership to drive a strategic security architecture.

You’ll set policy, manage risk and engage regulators while shaping the future of secure AI at scale for GSK’s enterprise AI initiatives and data platforms.