Senior AI/Cloud Risk Architect & Enterprise Security Strategist

Cybersecurity Jobs; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 175,000 - 239,000; Full time

Job summary

Fannie Mae is seeking a Principal Cybersecurity & Technology Risk Architect - AI/Cloud to serve as a first-line senior risk authority for enterprise architecture and AI and cloud engineering decisions.

You will translate technical conditions into risk positions, challenge designs with evidence, and drive reusable risk patterns across critical technology domains to reduce exposure at scale.

Qualifications

• 8 years of cybersecurity, security architecture, cloud security, AI/ML security experience.
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent practical experience) in cybersecurity, CS, engineering, risk or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated expertise in enterprise security architecture and modern engineering environments, including cloud architectures and software supply-chain risk.

Responsibilities

• Lead first-line risk analysis for material architecture, AI/GenAI, agentic AI, and cloud decisions.
• Assess architecture risks across security design, data flows, APIs, and cloud services.
• Provide senior risk challenges for AI systems and emerging architectures.
• Evaluate control design and operating effectiveness using evidence.
• Create reusable risk scenarios and minimum evidence expectations for patterns.

Skills

Threat modeling

Risk assessment

Executive communication

Security architecture

AI/ML security

Cloud security

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Master’s degree

Job description

Fannie Mae is seeking a Principal Cybersecurity & Technology Risk Architect - AI/Cloud to serve as a first-line senior risk authority for enterprise architecture and AI and cloud engineering decisions.

You will translate technical conditions into risk positions, challenge designs with evidence, and drive reusable risk patterns across critical technology domains to reduce exposure at scale.