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About The Role

As an Associate Director – Security Architecture Assurance & AI Security Validation, you will lead Cognizant's Cybersecurity Architecture & Risk (CAR) practice within the Extended CISO Tower, collaborating with the CISO Tower owner, Enterprise Architecture, IT Security, Compliance and business stakeholders. You will own the independent validation that implemented controls meet Cognizant's security reference architecture and design requirements before solutions go into production – now extended to cover AI and Generative AI systems.



You will have the autonomy to lead, innovate, and industrialize control-validation workflows while upholding our commitment to quality, Secure-by-Design and continuous learning. As a team of self-starters, you can work with impact alongside our vibrant people and culture, all while enjoying unmatched learning opportunities.

In This Role, You Will

Lead and mature the Security Control Evaluation function across platform, infrastructure, application and vendor implementations (both on-prem and cloud – AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI), ensuring controls meet Cognizant policies, standards, regulatory requirements and industry best practices before production.
Establish and own an AI Security Validation capability – validating controls for LLMs, Generative AI and agentic AI against model poisoning, prompt injection, data poisoning/leakage, model inversion, adversarial and deepfake attacks, aligned to NIST AI RMF, ISO/IE

📌 Security Architect (Chennai)
🏢 Cognizant
📍 Chennai