Principal Cloud and AI Security Architect

Florida Blue

11h

About The Position

The Principal Cybersecurity Architect is responsible for driving enterprise-wide technology security strategy and providing technical expertise to business areas and project teams with an emphasis on implementation of innovative, leading-edge security technology solutions. The ideal candidate will display: Strategic Leadership, Collaboration, and Accomplishments Proven Track Record of accomplishments and experience leading the design and deployment of AI Architectures (both On-Premise and Public Cloud) and driving and deploying Secure Cloud Adoption on an enterprise scale from Foundational Security Controls to Cloud migrations. Extensive experience migrating from a large scale onprem datacenter to the cloud while maintaining the proper levels of security, compliance and regulatory adherence. Cross-Functional Communication: Bridging gaps between data scientists, engineers, AI Architects, Cloud Architects, Data Protection professionals, legal, and executive teams. Security Evangelism: Promoting secure-by-design principles across AI and Cloud initiatives. Mentorship & Governance: Leading security teams and establishing governance frameworks for AI and Public Cloud adoption. AI-Specific Security Expertise Understanding of AI/ML Risks: Knowledge of adversarial attacks, model poisoning, data drift, and bias. Model Connectivity & Secure Deployment: Leadership experience with connecting User Interfaces to LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation “RAG” solutions, Agent to Agent architecture design, and securing Model Context Protocol “MCP” deployments, both on-premise and in the cloud. AI Lifecycle Security: Securing data pipelines, training environments, inference APIs, and monitoring systems. Enterprise Security Architecture Zero Trust & Identity Management: Designing architectures that enforce least privilege and secure identity across AI and Cloud systems. Cloud & Hybrid Security: Expertise in securing AI workloads across AWS and Azure, and on-prem environments. Experience leading the Secure design of Cloud Foundational Controls across AWS and Azure. Security Design Patterns: Lead architectural requirements and gain consensus on the use of reusable, scalable patterns for secure AI integration. Technical Depth in AI & Cloud Infrastructure API & Data Security: Securing AI APIs, leading design discussions on strategies to protect data within AI solutions, managing data access controls, designing secure MCP solutions and preventing data leakage. AI System Integration: Designing secure integration points between AI systems and enterprise platforms. Public Cloud Integration: Proven track record of driving an Enterprise on Public Cloud Foundational controls and taking a leadership role on Secure Cloud migrations from on-Premise to Public Cloud solutions. Model Usage Procedures: Designed procedures for organization wide governance on the usage/approval of AI Models. Regulatory & Compliance Knowledge Healthcare Regulations: Deep familiarity with HIPAA, NIST and emerging AI and Cloud governance frameworks. Audit & Risk Management: Ability to design systems that meet audit requirements, mitigate compliance risks, and ensuring Public Cloud environments maintain Audit Readiness.

Requirements

6+ years related work experience as an Architect working on progressively complex IT and Cybersecurity projects
Related Bachelor’s degree or additional related equivalent work experience IT related field
Required Licenses and Certifications CISSP - Cert Information Systems Security Prof 180 Days
Expert proficiency in creating architectural designs for gradually complex designs
Expert consulting, negotiating, communicating, consensus building, presentation and facilitation skills
Mastery of a variety of hardware platforms including mainframes, distributed platforms, desktops, and mobile devices.
Expert-level knowledge and experience applying current and emerging technology solutions and trends including security and regulatory industry requirements
Demonstrated decision-making skills related to implementing architecture and design
Knowledge of Project Management Methodologies
Extensive knowledge of development practices of security technologies
Exceptional leadership skills demonstrated through project or technical leadership experience
Expert-level ability to understand overall IT strategy and apply/implement IT strategy in assigned projects/initiatives
Expert-level ability to communicate highly complex technical information clearly and articulately at all levels and audiences.
Extensive experience with defense in depth, trust levels, privileges and permissions

Nice To Haves

2 or more years cloud security experience Identity
Access Management experience with employee and consumer identity security
Experience securing API’s Health care industry related experience
Experience using Agile methodology

Benefits

As a Florida Blue employee, you will thrive in our Be Well, Work Well, GuideWell culture where being well as an individual, and working well as a team, are both important in serving our members and communities.
To support your wellbeing, comprehensive benefits are offered. As an employee, you will have access to:
Medical, dental, vision, life and global travel health insurance
Income protection benefits: life insurance, short- and long-term disability programs
Leave programs to support personal circumstances
Retirement Savings Plan including employer match
Paid time off, volunteer time off, 10 holidays and 2 well-being days
Additional voluntary benefits available; and a comprehensive wellness program
Employee benefits are designed to align with federal and state employment laws. Benefits may vary based on the state in which work is performed. Benefits for intern, part-time and seasonal employees may differ.
To support your financial wellbeing, we offer competitive pay as well as opportunities for incentive or commission compensation. We also conduct regular annual reviews with pay for performance considerations for base pay increases.