AI Cyber Solution Principal

HCL Technologies Limited; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental & Vision

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Job summary

HCLTech in Santa Clara, CA seeks an AI Cyber Solution Principal to lead a customer-facing architecture team and drive AI-enabled security solutions using OpenAI models, APIs, Codex, and agentic workflows. You will hire, coach, and develop the team while shaping technical approach and customer engagement.

You’ll collaborate with Sales and Solutions Engineering to design, validate, and translate customer needs into scalable architectures, ensuring secure deployments and ongoing adoption across

Qualifications

• Experience leading customer-facing technical teams across architecture, engineering, implementation, or professional services.
• Experience spanning pre-sales technical engagement and post-sales delivery with ownership of customer outcomes.
• 5+ years of hands-on cybersecurity expertise across AppSec, DevSecOps, cloud security, SOC, incident response, vulnerability management, identity, or security architecture.
• Ability to coach architects, lead executive-level technical conversations, and design, build, and troubleshoot solutions.
• Experience applying AI models, APIs, or agentic patterns to practical workflows and guiding pilots into production.
• Ability to prioritize across customer engagements, manage escalations, and communicate architectural decisions clearly.
• Comfort in building teams and operating models in ambiguous environments with measurable customer adoption and impact.

Responsibilities

• Hire, coach, and develop a team of Cyber Applied AI Architects, setting expectations for technical excellence, customer impact, and career growth.
• Establish team priorities, allocate resources, and balance pre-sales engagements with post-sales implementation and adoption.
• Lead technical discovery with security executives, practitioners, architects, and engineering teams.
• Partner with Sales and Solutions Engineering on AI solution design, demonstrations, workshops, technical validation, and proofs of concept.
• Guide the team in translating customer requirements into clear solution architectures, implementation plans, success criteria, and milestones.
• Oversee solutions from pre-sales architecture and prototyping through production deployment and adoption.
• Serve as a senior technical partner for strategic customers, coordinating stakeholders and internal Product, Engineering, Security, and GTM teams.
• Remain hands-on in designing, building, and troubleshooting complex integrations involving OpenAI models and APIs, Codex, agents, security tools, cloud platforms, and enterprise workflows.
• Set standards for architectural reviews, evaluation frameworks, governance controls, guardrails, monitoring, and human-review processes.
• Identify technical risks, resolve escalations, and turn customer feedback into actionable product and engineering priorities.
• Measure team performance, customer adoption, and business impact, ensuring AI-enabled solutions deliver meaningful security outcomes.
• Build reusable reference architectures, playbooks, demonstrations, and best practices that help the team scale.

Job description

HCLTech is looking for a highly talented and self-motivated AI Cyber Solution Principal to join it in advancing the technological world through innovation and creativity.

Job ID: 153823

About the role

The Cyber Applied AI Architect a team of customer-facing architects who partner with customers throughout the full lifecycle—from technical discovery and architecture design through implementation, deployment, and adoption. As a hands-on people leader, you’ll hire, coach, and develop the team while helping shape its technical approach and customer engagement model.

You and your team will work closely with Sales and Solutions Engineering to understand customer security priorities and design AI-enabled solutions using OpenAI models, APIs, Codex, and agentic workflows.

After a customer commits, your team will remain engaged to translate the proposed solution into a production-ready implementation. You’ll provide architectural guidance, support complex technical decisions and escalations, and ensure consistent delivery across customer engagements. The work spans security workflows such as secure code review, vulnerability management, threat detection, incident response, SOC operations, and GRC automation.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Hire, coach, and develop a team of Cyber Applied AI Architects, setting clear expectations for technical excellence, customer impact, and career growth.
• Establish team priorities, allocate resources, and balance pre-sales engagements with post-sales implementation and adoption.
• Lead technical discovery with security executives, practitioners, architects, and engineering teams.
• Partner with Sales and Solutions Engineering on AI solution design, demonstrations, workshops, technical validation, and proofs of concept.
• Guide your team in translating customer requirements into clear solution architectures, implementation plans, success criteria, and technical milestones.
• Oversee solutions from pre-sales architecture and prototyping through production deployment and adoption.
• Serve as a senior technical partner for strategic customers, coordinating stakeholders and internal Product, Engineering, Security, and GTM teams.
• Remain hands-on in designing, building, and troubleshooting complex integrations involving OpenAI models and APIs, Codex, agents, security tools, cloud platforms, and enterprise workflows.
• Set standards for architectural reviews, evaluation frameworks, governance controls, guardrails, monitoring, and human-review processes.
• Identify technical risks, resolve escalations, and turn customer feedback into actionable product and engineering priorities.
• Measure team performance, customer adoption, and business impact, ensuring AI-enabled solutions deliver meaningful security outcomes.
• Build reusable reference architectures, playbooks, demonstrations, and best practices that help the team scale.

Qualifications

• Have experience hiring, managing, and developing customer-facing technical teams across solutions architecture, engineering, implementation, or professional services.
• Bring experience spanning both pre-sales technical engagement and post-sales delivery, with ownership of customer outcomes.
• Have 5+ years of hands-on cybersecurity expertise across areas such as AppSec, DevSecOps, cloud security, SOC, incident response, vulnerability management, identity, or security architecture.
• Can coach architects, lead executive-level technical conversations, and remain comfortable designing, building, and troubleshooting solutions.
• Have experience applying AI models, APIs, or agentic patterns to practical workflows and guiding pilots into production.
• Can prioritize across customer engagements, manage technical escalations, and communicate architectural decisions and tradeoffs clearly.
• Enjoy building teams and operating models in ambiguous environments while taking ownership of measurable customer adoption and impact.

Pay and Benefits

Base Pay Range Minimum: $160,000 per year

Base Pay Range Maximum: $230,000 per year

HCLTech is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees regardless of race, religion, sex, color, age, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, physical disability or genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with federal, state, and/or local law. Should any applicant have concerns about discrimination in the hiring process, they should provide a detailed report of those concerns to [e-mail] for investigation.

A candidate’s pay within the range will depend on their skills, experience, education, and other factors permitted by law. This role may also be eligible for performance-based bonuses subject to company policies. In addition, this role is eligible for the following benefits subject to company policies: medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, life, accidental death & dismemberment, and disability insurance; employee assistance program; 401(k) retirement plan; 10 days of paid time off per year (some positions are eligible for need-based leave with no designated number of leave days per year); and 10 paid holidays per year

How You’ll Grow

At HCLTech, we offer continuous opportunities for you to find your spark and grow with us. We want you to be happy and satisfied with your role and to really learn what type of work sparks your brilliance the best. Throughout your time with us, we offer transparent communication with senior-level employees, learning and career development programs at every level, and opportunities to experiment in different roles or even pivot industries. We believe that you should be in control of your career with unlimited opportunities to find the role that fits you best.