Job Title: AWS Security Architect GenAI
Level: Senior Specialist Architecture
Experience: 10 15 Years
Location: Jersey City, New Jersey, USA (Hybrid)
Employment Type: Permanent Fulltime
Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced AWS Security Architect GenAI to lead security, risk, compliance, and governance activities for enterprise AWS Generative AI platform implementations.
The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in AWS Security Architecture, GenAI governance, Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore, AI risk management, responsible AI, threat modeling, cloud security, and enterprise security architecture.
The role requires strong consulting and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to work with technical teams, architects, security organizations, programme leadership, and executive stakeholders. Experience within Financial Services, Insurance, or other highly regulated industries is preferred.
Required Experience
10 14 years of experience in Cybersecurity, Risk & Compliance, Security Consulting, or Security Architecture.
Experience leading security and compliance activities for large-scale cloud transformation programmes.
Strong understanding of AWS Security Architecture and Governance.
Experience conducting application, cloud, and platform security reviews.
Demonstrated customer-facing consulting and stakeholder-management experience.
Experience working within Financial Services, Insurance, or other highly regulated environments is preferred.
Key Responsibilities
Security Risk & Compliance Leadership
Lead Security, Risk, and Compliance (SRC) activities for AWS GenAI platform implementations.
Establish security and governance frameworks for Amazon Bedrock and AgentCore adoption.
Identify, assess, and mitigate security, compliance, privacy, and operational risks associated with GenAI deployments.
Ensure adherence to enterprise security standards, regulatory requirements, and responsible AI principles.
Drive security reviews, risk assessments, and compliance evaluations throughout the engagement lifecycle.
AWS GenAI Governance
Provide governance oversight for Amazon Bedrock and AgentCore implementations.
Review GenAI architectures, security controls, and deployment patterns.
Define security guardrails for:
Data access
Model usage
Agent orchestration
Knowledge-base integrations
AI agent workflows
Support secure adoption of AI agents, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), knowledge bases, and enterprise AI workflows.
Establish governance mechanisms for secure and responsible enterprise GenAI adoption.
Security Risk Assessments
Conduct detailed security architecture reviews and risk assessments for GenAI solutions.
Perform threat modeling for AI applications and agent-based workflows.
Evaluate identity and access management, encryption, auditability, logging, monitoring, and security controls.
Assess overall security posture and recommend remediation actions.
Maintain risk registers, mitigation plans, and governance dashboards.
Track identified risks through resolution and support risk acceptance/sign-off processes.
Compliance Assurance
Ensure alignment with security and compliance frameworks such as:
NIST
ISO 27001
Responsible AI guidelines
Enterprise security policies
Regulatory requirements
Support audit readiness, regulatory assessments, and customer assurance activities.
Establish AI governance controls, review processes, and compliance checkpoints.
Develop security and compliance documentation required for production readiness.
Support production security approval and risk sign-off.
Stakeholder Management
Act as a primary security and risk advisor for business and client stakeholders.
Collaborate with AWS teams, enterprise architects, platform engineers, security teams, and programme leadership.
Present security risks, findings, recommendations, and remediation plans to both technical and executive audiences.
Drive resolution of security and compliance gaps.
Translate complex GenAI security risks into clear business-level recommendations.
Mandatory Technical Skills
AWS GenAI
Amazon Bedrock
AgentCore
AWS Launchpad
GenAI Platform Governance
AI Risk Management
Responsible AI Controls
GenAI Security Architecture
Security & Risk
Enterprise Security Architecture
Cyber Risk Management
Threat Modeling
Security Assessments
Security Governance
Compliance Management
Cloud Security
Secure Architecture Design
AWS Security Services
AWS IAM
AWS KMS
AWS CloudTrail
Amazon GuardDuty
AWS Logging & Monitoring
AWS Security Services
AWS Cloud Technologies
Architecture & Governance
Architecture Governance
Business Process Design
Process/Capability Mapping
Enterprise Roadmap & Strategy
Reference Architecture
Security Architecture Reviews
Risk & Compliance Frameworks
Preferred Certifications
CISSP
CISM
CCSP
AWS Certified Security Specialty
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate/Professional
ISO 27001 Lead Implementer / Lead Auditor
Certified Risk Management credentials
Key Deliverables
GenAI Security Risk Assessment Reports
GenAI Governance & Compliance Framework
Risk Register and Mitigation Plans
Security Architecture Review Findings
AI Governance and Security Guardrail Recommendations
Executive Security & Compliance Dashboards
Production Readiness Documentation
Security Risk Sign-Off Documentation
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