Senior Cyber security Architect @ Dallas Texas Hybrid

Position: Senior Cyber security Architect

Location: Dallas Texas Hybrid

Duration: Long Term Contract

Job Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Cybersecurity Architect to design integrated authorization architecture and governance model for AI applications and agents across SWA within the Identity and Access Management space; evaluate and recommend new and/or existing capabilities and tools that integrate with SWA infrastructure, including emerging technologies; and to serve as Subject Matter Expert to Cybersecurity Teams on identity governance for AI systems, building durable capabilities.

WORK ACTIVITIES/CONTEXT:

• Define the enterprise target-state architecture and governance model for identities, delegated authority, and authorization across AI applications, agents, tools, APIs, and human users.
• Establish reusable authorization patterns for user-to-agent, agent-to-tool, machine-to-machine, and agent-to-agent interactions.
• Design policy enforcement approaches that support least privilege, ZSP, separation of duties, context-aware access, runtime decisioning, and human-in-the-loop guardrails.
• Define lifecycle governance for AI agents and other non-human identities, including registration, sponsorship, ownership, credential issuance, rotation, recertification, suspension, deprovisioning, and evidence retention.
• Develop standards for OAuth 2.0, OIDC, token exchange, workload identity, delegated authorization, service accounts, and short-lived credentials.
• Evaluate vendor and native platform capabilities; document options, tradeoffs, integration impacts, risks, and recommendations for Southwest.
• Partner with IAM, IGA, PAM, Enterprise Access Management, Cloud Security, Application Security, AI Engineering, AI Governance, Enterprise Architecture, and platform teams to align controls and operating responsibilities.
• Create reference architectures, design principles, control requirements, decision records, implementation roadmaps, and adoption guidance.
• Support solution reviews and threat-informed design decisions for AI use cases, MCP servers, agent tools, data access paths, and autonomous actions.
• Define logging, traceability, audit evidence, and monitoring requirements that connect an agent action to the agent identity, sponsoring owner, delegated user or system, authorization decision, and affected resource.
• Provide technical leadership and consultation to Cyber teams; translate complex IAM and AI security concepts into clear decisions for engineers, product teams, leaders, and governance forums.
• Track relevant market and technology developments and recommend updates to architecture standards and strategic roadmaps

WORK EXPERIENCE:

• Experience solving complex problems and driving multiple stakeholders towards implementable solutions;
• Experience developing communication strategies for buy-in and acceptance preferred;
• Experience working in a cross-functional environment within technology domain;
• Experience in Cybersecurity Identity and Access Management domain preferred
• Experience and solid knowledge of strategic and financial analysis and issues/risk management and project change requests.
• Ability to influence diverse customer groups to align on strategic goals and decisions
• Experience working in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment.
• Consulting experience (highly desired)

Thanks & Regards

Rakesh Vangala

Team Lead

Burgeon IT Services LLC.

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