Florida Blue · 1 month ago
Principal Cloud and AI Security Architect
United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$138K/yr - $225K/yr
6+ years expFlorida Blue is a healthcare company seeking a Principal Cloud and AI Security Architect to drive enterprise-wide technology security strategy and provide technical expertise in innovative security technology solutions. The role involves leading the design and deployment of AI architectures, ensuring secure cloud adoption, and mentoring security teams while promoting secure-by-design principles across AI and Cloud initiatives.
ConsultingHealth CareInsurance
Responsibilities
Driving enterprise-wide technology security strategy
Providing technical expertise to business areas and project teams
Leading the design and deployment of AI Architectures (both On-Premise and Public Cloud)
Driving and deploying Secure Cloud Adoption on an enterprise scale
Bridging gaps between data scientists, engineers, AI Architects, Cloud Architects, Data Protection professionals, legal, and executive teams
Promoting secure-by-design principles across AI and Cloud initiatives
Leading security teams and establishing governance frameworks for AI and Public Cloud adoption
Understanding of AI/ML Risks: Knowledge of adversarial attacks, model poisoning, data drift, and bias
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
Securing data pipelines, training environments, inference APIs, and monitoring systems
Designing architectures that enforce least privilege and secure identity across AI and Cloud systems
Expertise in securing AI workloads across AWS and Azure, and on-prem environments
Lead architectural requirements and gain consensus on the use of reusable, scalable patterns for secure AI integration
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
Designing secure integration points between AI systems and enterprise platforms
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
Designed procedures for organization wide governance on the usage/approval of AI Models
Deep familiarity with HIPAA, NIST and emerging AI and Cloud governance frameworks
Ability to design systems that meet audit requirements, mitigate compliance risks, and ensuring Public Cloud environments maintain Audit Readiness
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
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
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
Company
Florida Blue
Florida Blue is a subsidiary of a not-for-profit health solutions company dedicated to serving all Floridians in the pursuit of health.
5001-10000 employees
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Late StageLeadership Team
Patrick Geraghty
President and CEO
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2025-11-04
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