Data Security & Controls Architect (1159064)

The Judge Group; Irving (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement plan

PTO & holidays

Career development

Job summary

The Judge Group is seeking a Data Security & Controls Architect to join our Irving/Remote team. You will define security, privacy, retention, audit, and access-control architecture for multimodal data pipelines and AI environments, ensuring protection across IT, OT, and vendor workflows.

Design identity, authentication, and privileged-access patterns; implement encryption and key management; embed security checks into CI/CD, data pipelines, containers, and model workflows.

Qualifications

• Security architecture for cloud, data, and AI environments.
• IAM, Zero Trust, encryption, secrets management, secure APIs, and logging/auditability.
• Experience securing sensitive datasets across IT, OT, and third-party workflows.
• Ability to work with engineering teams without disrupting delivery or platform usability.

Responsibilities

• Define security, privacy, retention, audit, and access-control architecture for multimodal data pipelines, AI training datasets, annotation workflows, model environments, and connected engineering platforms.
• Design identity, authentication, authorization, and privileged-access patterns for users, services, pipelines, repositories, and machine identities.
• Define RBAC/ABAC, least-privilege, segregation-of-duties, encryption, key management, secure transfer, and controlled data sharing.
• Translate classification, privacy, export-control, retention, and audit requirements into enforceable controls.
• Embed security checks into CI/CD, repositories, data pipelines, containers, and model workflows.

Skills

Security architecture

IAM & Zero Trust

Encryption & data protection

Auditability & logging

Data security across IT/OT/third-party

Collaboration with engineering

Job description

Location

Irving, TX, USA

Salary

$140,000.00 USD Annually - $150,000.00 USD Annually

Data Security & Controls Architect

Irving, TX / Remote

Fulltime

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• Security architecture for cloud, data, and AI environments.
• IAM, Zero Trust, encryption, secrets, secure APIs, logging, auditability, and data-loss controls.
• Experience securing sensitive datasets across IT, OT, and third-party workflows.
• Ability to work with engineering teams without disrupting delivery or platform usability.

Good to Have

Industrial cybersecurity, connected products, sensor data, OT/IT convergence, or secure MLOps.

Policy-as-code, container security, software supply-chain controls, and privacy engineering.

Roles & Responsibilities

Define security, privacy, retention, audit, and access-control architecture for multimodal data pipelines, AI training datasets, annotation workflows, model environments, and connected engineering platforms.

• Design identity, authentication, authorization, and privileged-access patterns for users, services, pipelines, repositories, and machine identities.
• Define RBAC/ABAC, least-privilege, segregation-of-duties, encryption, key management, secure transfer, and controlled data sharing.
• Translate classification, privacy, export-control, retention, and audit requirements into enforceable controls.
• Embed security checks into CI/CD, repositories, data pipelines, containers, and model workflows.
• Create threat models, control mappings, evidence requirements, exception handling, and remediation plans.

Managerial Skills

Work with engineering teams to embed controls without disrupting delivery or platform usability; own exception handling and remediation plans.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage, retirement savings plan with company contribution, paid time off, holidays, and opportunities for professional growth and career development. Additional benefits and perks will be discussed during the interview process.

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