Cybersecurity Manager - AI Architecture - London

Cybersecurity Manager - AI Architecture - London, United Kingdom

Locations : London | Lisbon

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What You'll Do

We are seeking a highly skilled and technically hands-on Cybersecurity Manager – AI
Architecture to lead the secure design and engineering assurance of AI/ML systems across
the enterprise.
This role operates as a technical leader and partnering with multiple teams across business
units—including data science, ML engineering, cloud/platform engineering, application
development, security operations, and risk/compliance—to embed secure-by-design
principles into AI systems.
The ideal candidate brings a strong engineering foundation and thrives on hands-on
technical execution, architectural ownership, and cross-functional collaboration. They
combine deep technical expertise with the ability to influence stakeholders and enable
secure, scalable AI adoption across the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities
• Lead the design and implementation of secure AI/ML architecture frameworks aligned
with zero-trust principles.
• Develop enterprise security standards and reference architectures for LLMs, generative
AI platforms, and ML pipelines.
• Conduct AI-specific threat modeling (model poisoning, adversarial attacks, prompt
injection, data leakage, model inversion, supply chain risk).
• Embed security controls into AI CI/CD pipelines, MLOps workflows, and DevSecOps
processes across business units.
• Ensure secure handling of training data, fine-tuning datasets, model artifacts, and
embeddings through encryption and access governance.
• Secure AI workloads in cloud and hybrid environments (AWS, Azure, GCP), including
containerized and Kubernetes-based deployments.
• Integrate AI systems with enterprise identity and access management, cloud security
posture controls, application security scanning, runtime monitoring, and vulnerability
management platforms.
• Define AI-specific logging, telemetry, detection strategies, and incident response
readiness.
• Provide hands-on architectural guidance and code-level review when required

What You'll Bring

Required Qualifications
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or
related technical field.
• Strong experience in cybersecurity with demonstrated exposure to AI/ML, cloud, or
application security.
• 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience (software engineering, cloud
engineering/SRE, systems architecture, ML engineering, or DevOps).
• Strong understanding of AI/ML architectures and MLOps frameworks.
• Experience with threat modeling methodologies.
• Proficiency in Python and secure coding practices.
• Experience working within enterprise environments that include identity management,
cloud posture controls, application security scanning, runtime monitoring, and
vulnerability management tools.
• Experience securing cloud-native platforms and containerized workloads.

Preferred Qualifications
• A technical manager and enterprise security architect.
• Experience implementing NIST AI Risk Management Framework.
• Knowledge of AI governance and emerging AI regulatory compliance requirements.
• Experience with model monitoring, drift detection, AI observability, or adversarial ML
testing.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes security, Infrastructure-as-Code security, and
CI/CD security automation.
• Experience driving cross-business-unit security initiatives

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
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