VP AI Security Architect & Strategy Lead

Synchrony Financial; Cincinnati (OH); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Synchrony Financial seeks a VP, AI Security Architect Lead to define enterprise security for AI/ML. Lead guardrails, reusable patterns, and assurance across the AI lifecycle, partnering with Cybersecurity, Cloud, Risk, and Business teams.

You will translate AI threats into architecture and engineering requirements, advance security-by-design, and drive automation, testing, and threat modeling aligned with MITRE ATLAS/OWASP guidance. Hybrid remote/work options in the US.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, IT, Engineering, or related field.
• Significant cybersecurity and security-architecture leadership experience.
• Practical knowledge of AI architectures (LLMs, RAG, embeddings) and cloud security.
• Strong IAM, API security, data protection, devsecops and SBOM skills.
• Experience with AWS, Azure or GCP and executive communication.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the enterprise AI Security Architecture strategy, principles and guardrails.
• Create reusable security patterns for Generative AI, copilots, RAG, and model APIs.
• Lead security architecture assessments across cloud, SaaS, data and enterprise environments.
• Embed security-by-design across the AI lifecycle from development to retirement.
• Advise senior leaders and align stakeholders on risk, trade-offs and actions.

Skills

Cybersecurity leadership

Security architecture

Executive stakeholder mgmt

AI security wrt LLMs

Threat modeling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Cybersecurity/IT/Engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Synchrony Financial seeks a VP, AI Security Architect Lead to define enterprise security for AI/ML. Lead guardrails, reusable patterns, and assurance across the AI lifecycle, partnering with Cybersecurity, Cloud, Risk, and Business teams.

You will translate AI threats into architecture and engineering requirements, advance security-by-design, and drive automation, testing, and threat modeling aligned with MITRE ATLAS/OWASP guidance. Hybrid remote/work options in the US.