Senior AI Cyber Solutions Architect Lead

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 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