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We are committed to excellence and driven by outcomes that matter. Collaboration is at the heart of how we work, and our forward-thinking mindset fuels continuous learning, innovation, and growth.\nAt Cognizant, careers transcend titles. We empower our people to think strategically, inspire others, and lead with purpose - always guided by our core values. Join us in shaping the future of business.\nAbout the role\nAs 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.\nIn this role, you will:\nLead 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.\nEstablish 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/IEC 42001, OWASP Top 10 for LLMs and MITRE ATLAS.\nEmbed AI-TRiSM (AI Trust, Risk and Security Management) principles - model provenance, data lineage/tagging, guardrails, red-teaming and continuous monitoring - into the enterprise control-assurance lifecycle.\nDefine and govern key performance metrics, KRIs and SLOs, ensuring validation deliverables and remediation follow-ups are met on time and reported to leadership.\nAct as the primary liaison between Enterprise Architects, Design Review, CS and IT teams, and business stakeholders to close security control gaps and drive remediation to closure.\nProvide deep subject-matter expertise in cybersecurity principles to manage risks across data use, processing, storage and transmission, including cloud security posture, network micro-segmentation and zero-trust validation.\nStrengthen Identity & Access Management (IAM) control validation - privileged access, least-privilege, joiner-mover-leaver, and non-human / machine and AI-agent identities.\nIncorporate Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) control checks into vendor and SaaS/AI-vendor go-live validations, ensuring supply-chain and model-supply-chain assurance.\nBuild, mentor and coach a high-performing validation team, managing multiple priorities, conflict resolution and stakeholder expectations.\nStay current with emerging IT, cloud and AI/cybersecurity technologies and continuously uplift the control library and validation playbooks.\nEmbrace our vibrant culture by striving for excellence, focusing on meaningful outcomes, and collaborating effectively. Take ownership, build relationships, and focus on personal growth to drive business strategy and foster an inclusive culture.\nWhat you must have to be considered\n15+ years of experience in information security, including 6+ years in security architecture / go-live control validation and 5+ years leading and mentoring teams.\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity or a related field.\nCISM (Certified Information Security Manager) - Required.\nProven, hands-on experience validating security controls for cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI) and on-prem solutions against a security reference architecture.\nDemonstrated understanding of AI/ML and Generative AI security risks and control frameworks (NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, OWASP LLM, MITRE ATLAS).\nStrong grasp of IAM, TPRM, cloud security, network segmentation and zero-trust control domains.\nExcellent analytical, problem-solving, project management and stakeholder-leadership skills across functional teams.\nA strong sense of ownership, a desire to create meaningful outcomes, and passion for work that serves a greater good for customers, communities, or global challenges.\nThe embodiment of Cognizant's Values: Work as One, Dare to Innovate, Raise the Bar, Do the Right Thing, & Own It.\nThese will help you succeed\nCISSP, CISA, CCSK / CCSP - strongly preferred.\nAzure AZ-500 (Required-equivalent), SC-300 / SC-100 and cloud-provider security certifications.\nEmerging AI security credentials (e.g., ISACA AAISM / AAIA, AI governance certifications).\nISO/IEC 42001 (AI Management System) Lead Auditor/Implementer - a strong differentiator given this role's AI security validation scope.\nExperience with security automation, control-as-code, and continuous controls monitoring (CCM).\nExposure to regulatory and framework mappings - ISO 27001, NIST CSF, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, GDPR/DPDP.\nWork model\nWe believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role's business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 2 days a week in a Cognizant office in Chennai/Bangalore/Pune, India. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs.\nThe working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.\nWe're excited to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in a variety of ways. Don't hesitate to apply, even if you only meet the minimum requirements listed. 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