Remote AI Security & Governance Lead

SHI; Topeka (KS); Remote; USD 185,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Diversity & inclusion

Professional growth opportunities

Health benefits

Modern facilities and technology

Job summary

SHI Services Manager, AI Security & Governance, leads a team of engineers and developers focused on helping customers secure and govern Microsoft AI, agents, data, agent identity, and cloud solutions.

The Manager is responsible for a defined portfolio of AI security and governance services while providing specialized security and governance expertise in support of solutions led by other Microsoft Services practice groups.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Engineers and Developers focused on AI security, data security, identity, governance, automation, and related Microsoft technologies.
• Establish clear performance expectations, career development plans, and technical growth pathways.
• Build a culture of innovation, accountability, collaboration, engineering excellence, and continuous learning.
• Support recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and retention efforts to develop a strong AI security and governance capability.
• Foster knowledge sharing and community building across Microsoft Services practices.
• Define and evolve the roadmap for the AI security and governance services assigned to the team, including advisory, assessment, implementation, engineering, automation, and operational enablement offerings.
• Develop reusable intellectual property for the team’s portfolio, including reference architectures, implementation methodologies, security patterns, governance controls, accelerators, automation, code, templates, and best practices.
• Partner with Microsoft and internal stakeholders to align the team’s services with evolving Microsoft AI, security, compliance, identity, and data capabilities.
• Provide delivery oversight and guidance for customer engagements owned by the AI Security & Governance team.
• Ensure consistent delivery quality through architecture reviews, engineering standards, testing, governance controls, documentation, and operational best practices.
• Promote automation and modern engineering practices using GitHub, CI/CD, PowerShell, Bicep, APIs, Infrastructure as Code, testing, and reusable components where appropriate to the team’s services.
• Collaborate with adjacent practice groups to align reusable engineering assets and avoid unnecessary duplication.
• Partner with Data and AI, Digital Workplace, Enterprise Security, Azure Cloud Services, and other Microsoft Services teams to incorporate appropriate security and governance capabilities into broader customer solutions.
• Provide AI security, identity, data protection, compliance, monitoring, and governance expertise in support of services and engagements led by other practice groups.
• Collaborate with agentic solution teams on security and governance requirements for Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry, Agent 365, custom agents, and related technologies.
• Work with Enterprise Security leadership to align AI-specific security capabilities with SHI’s broader Microsoft security portfolio and delivery standards.
• Contribute to shared customer governance models, production-readiness approaches, reference architectures, and solution patterns without duplicating ownership held by adjacent teams.
• Establish clear engagement models, responsibilities, and handoffs that allow teams to combine expertise and deliver an integrated customer experience.
• Serve as a technical advisor for strategic customer opportunities that require the team’s AI security and governance expertise.
• Guide solution decisions within the team’s areas of responsibility, including AI and agent identity, access, data protection, monitoring, threat detection, compliance, and security controls.

Skills

Team leadership

Security governance

AI security

Cloud security

Tools

Microsoft Entra

Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Defender

Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Security Copilot

Agent 365

Job description

SHI Services Manager, AI Security & Governance, leads a team of engineers and developers focused on helping customers secure and govern Microsoft AI, agents, data, agent identity, and cloud solutions.

The Manager is responsible for a defined portfolio of AI security and governance services while providing specialized security and governance expertise in support of solutions led by other Microsoft Services practice groups.