Senior Assistant Vice President- AI Security Engineering

EXL Talent Acquisition Team; Dadri; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

EXL is seeking a Senior Assistant Vice President - AI Security Engineering to lead the Secure AI Engineering practice across enterprise and client-delivered AI solutions.

The role requires 12–15 years in cyber security, deep hands-on cloud AI experience, and the ability to translate risk into practical engineering controls, with a focus on GenAI, LLMs, and responsible AI.

Lead secure AI architecture reviews, guide regulatory readiness, and build scalable, secure AI pipelines across delivery teams.

Qualifications

• Masters degree or higher in CS, Cyber Security, AI/ML, Data Science, or related field.
• 10–15+ years in cyber security, secure architecture, or platform engineering.
• 3+ years in Agentic AI, GenAI, or AI/ML environments.
• Strong hands-on with cloud AI platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Experience with AI governance, privacy, and MLOps/LLMOps tooling.
• Knowledge of NIST AI RMF, NIST CSF, ISO/IEC standards, AI regulations.
• Experience in regulated industries preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the Secure AI Engineering practice across enterprise and client AI solutions.
• Establish secure-by-design standards, guardrails, and engineering controls for ML/GenAI.
• Translate regulatory and risk requirements into practical engineering standards.
• Oversee security architecture for end-to-end AI lifecycle—data ingestion, training, inference.
• Protect against AI threats including data poisoning, model theft, prompt injection, and more.
• Drive secure reference architectures and reusable components across teams.
• Embed security into CI/CD, MLOps, and LLMOps pipelines for scalable delivery.
• Collaborate with cyber security and IR teams on incident preparedness and response.
• Advise clients on secure AI architecture, risk posture, and regulatory readiness.
• Lead or support AI security reviews and risk discussions for strategic clients.
• Build internal capability in secure AI engineering and adversarial ML awareness.

Skills

Displaying Visionary Thinking

Excel Applications

Internal Communications

Interpersonal Relationship Building

Oracle Database

SAP Basis Support

SQL Analysis

Stakeholder Management

Tableau

Education

Masters or Bachelor’s in CS/Cyber Security/AI/DS

Tools

Credo.ai

Priva Sapien

Model registries

Monitoring tools

Job description

Senior Assistant Vice President- AI Security Engineering

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Job Info

• Job Identification 13108
• Posting Date 04/21/2026, 11:50 AM
• Job Role Cyber Security-Cyber security principal architect
• Experience (In Years) 12-15
• Job Location NCR, Pune

Job Description

• Demonstrated ability to lead secure AI engineering at enterprise and multi-client scale
• Strong balance of technical depth, risk judgment, and executive communication
• Proven effectiveness operating in global, regulated, client-delivery environments
• Credibility with both deeply technical teams and non-technical executive stakeholders

Responsibilities

TDefine and lead the Secure AI Engineering practice across enterprise and client-delivered AI solutions.

• Establish secure-by-design standards, guardrails, and engineering controls for ML, GenAI, LLM, RAG, and Agentic AI systems
• Translate regulatory and risk requirements into practical engineering standards aligned with business outcomes.
• Oversee security architecture for the end-to-end AI lifecycle—data ingestion, training, fine-tuning, model management, inference, APIs, integrations, and infrastructure.
• Ensure protection against advanced AI threats including data poisoning, model theft, prompt injection, inference attacks, agent misuse, hallucination exploitation, and supply-chain compromise.
• Drive adoption of secure reference architectures, reusable components, and hardened AI pipelines across delivery teams.
• Embed security controls into CI/CD, MLOps, and LLMOps pipelines to enable scale without friction.
• Partner with cyber security and IR teams on AI-related incident preparedness, response, and post-incident improvements
• Client Advisory & External Engagement
• Act as a trusted advisor to business and clients on secure AI architecture, risk posture, and regulatory readiness.
• Lead or support AI security reviews, architecture assessments, and risk discussions for strategic clients.
• Build strong internal capability in secure AI engineering and adversarial ML awareness. solutions etc.

Qualifications

Masters DegBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, AI/ML, Data Science, or related field

10–15+ years of experience in cyber security, secure architecture, or platform engineering, with 3+ years focused on Agentic, AI/ML or GenAI environments

Strong hands-on understanding of cloud-based AI platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP or equivalent)

Experience or strong working knowledge of AI governance, privacy, and MLOps/LLMOps tooling (e.g., Credo.ai, Priva Sapien, model registries and monitoring tools)

Deep knowledge of Secure AI & adversarial ML, Privacy-by-design and data protection, Secure MLOps / LLMOps practices

Familiarity with frameworks and regulations such as NIST AI RMF, NIST CSF, ISO/IEC standards, Emerging global AI regulations (US, EU, sector-specific)

Experience supporting clients in highly regulated industries strongly preferred (preferred) 14 Years

Required Skills

• Displaying Visionary Thinking
• Excel Applications
• Internal Communications
• Interpersonal Relationship Building
• Oracle Database
• SAP Basis Support
• SQL Analysis
• Stakeholder Management
• Tableau

About Us

EXL (NASDAQ: EXLS) is a leading data analytics and digital operations and solutions company. We partner with clients using a data and AI-led approach to reinvent business models, drive better business outcomes and unlock growth with speed. EXL harnesses the power of data, analytics, AI, and deep industry knowledge to transform operations for the world’s leading corporations in industries including insurance, healthcare, banking and financial services, media and retail, among others. EXL was founded in 1999 with the core values of innovation, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect. We are headquartered in New York and have more than 54,000 employees spanning six continents. For more information, visit www.exlservice.com .