VP, AI Security Architecture & Assurance

Synchrony; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Synchrony is seeking a VP, AI Security Architect Lead to define and drive enterprise security architecture for AI/ML across the organization. You will establish guardrails, reusable patterns, and scalable assurance to enable secure innovation while protecting data and customers.

You will translate AI threats into architecture requirements, guide security-by-design, and mentor cross-functional teams in threat modeling, controls, and automated assurance across the AI lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a related field.
• Significant experience in cybersecurity, security architecture, cloud security, or enterprise architecture.
• Practical knowledge of AI architectures including LLMs, RAG, embeddings, and AI inference APIs.
• Strong identity and access management, API security, cloud security, and data protection.
• Familiarity with OWASP, MITRE ATLAS, NIST AI RMF, and Zero Trust concepts.
• Experience designing enterprise-scale architectures on AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Proven ability to translate risk into architecture standards and executive recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the enterprise AI security architecture strategy and guardrails.
• Create reusable security patterns for GenAI, copilots, and enterprise AI platforms.
• Lead security architecture assessments across cloud, SaaS, data, and applications.
• Embed security-by-design across the AI lifecycle and automate reviews and testing.
• Drive threat modeling aligned with MITRE ATLAS and OWASP guidance.
• Define controls for models, data, prompts, and third-party AI services.
• Collaborate with engineering to automate architecture reviews and security testing.
• Assess emerging risks like prompt injection, data poisoning, and AI supply chains.
• Advise senior leaders with clear architecture decisions and risk trade-offs.
• Align Cybersecurity, Cloud, Data, and Business teams around secure AI innovation.

Skills

Security architecture

Cloud security

Threat modeling

Executive communication

AI security

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, IT, Engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Synchrony is seeking a VP, AI Security Architect Lead to define and drive enterprise security architecture for AI/ML across the organization. You will establish guardrails, reusable patterns, and scalable assurance to enable secure innovation while protecting data and customers.

You will translate AI threats into architecture requirements, guide security-by-design, and mentor cross-functional teams in threat modeling, controls, and automated assurance across the AI lifecycle.