Principal AI Security Architect — Secure AI at Cloud Scale

Amazon Inc.; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 183,000 - 247,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Inc. is seeking a Principal AI Security Solutions Architect to define and drive technical strategy for secure AI adoption and AI-enabled security outcomes across North America.

You will work with CISOs, Chief AI Officers, security leaders, enterprise architects, and builders as they move generative AI and agentic systems into production. You will operate across organizational boundaries to align account teams, security and AI specialists, service teams, partners, and field communities

Qualifications

• 10+ years of specific technology domain areas experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
• Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications
• Experience in software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data and analytics
• Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation
• Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management
• Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with executives, IT management, and developers
• Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
• Experience in application security frameworks, security code reviews, incident response, security infrastructure, penetration testing, cloud security, AI security, identity and access controls

Responsibilities

• Own the multi-year technical strategy for Security AI across the AGS Security & Networking SA Team, including priorities and measurements.
• Advise senior customer leaders on security strategy for AI adoption with governance models and investment priorities.
• Lead complex customer engagements involving generative AI and agentic systems, including identity, data protection, and security risk.
• Define architectures for applying AI to security workflows, with evaluation criteria for accuracy, safety, and oversight.
• Turn recurring customer problems into repeatable field mechanisms with reference architectures and guidance.
• Establish outcome measures linking technical work to reduced risk and faster secure deployment.
• Build durable relationships across AWS security and AI service teams and field communities.
• Gather evidence across customers to influence product strategy and roadmaps.
• Create executive narratives on secure AI adoption used in customer forums and events.
• Develop Principal-level technical capability across the SA community through mentoring and reviews.
• Identify emerging security risks and drive resolution through field and product investments.
• Serve as escalation point for high-impact customer decisions at the intersection of AI architecture and security.

Skills

Security architecture

AI security

Cloud security

Executive communication

Solution architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Inc. is seeking a Principal AI Security Solutions Architect to define and drive technical strategy for secure AI adoption and AI-enabled security outcomes across North America.

You will work with CISOs, Chief AI Officers, security leaders, enterprise architects, and builders as they move generative AI and agentic systems into production. You will operate across organizational boundaries to align account teams, security and AI specialists, service teams, partners, and field communities