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Our offerings and proven solutions create a unique competitive advantage for our clients by giving them the power to see beyond and rise above. We work with many industry-leading organizations across the world, including 20 Fortune 50 companies and 4 of the 5 top banks in both the US and India, and numerous innovators across the healthcare ecosystem.\nOur disruptor's mindset, commitment to client success, and agility to thrive in the dynamic environment have enabled us to sustain our growth momentum. Persistent has been recognized across top industry platforms for innovation, leadership, and inclusion. We reported $1,654.4M FY26 revenue with 17.4% Y-o-Y growth. We have delivered 24 sequential quarters of growth with $436.0M in Q4 FY26 revenue, up 3.2% Q-o-Q and 16.2% Y-o-Y growth. Our 27,500+ global team members, located in 18 countries, have been instrumental in helping the market leaders transform their industries.\nAbout Position:\nWe are seeking a highly skilled Principal AI Security Architect to lead the design and governance of security architecture across cloud, edge, on-premises, and mobile environments. This role will drive Zero Trust security strategies, secure AI and distributed systems, and establish robust identity, access management, and data protection frameworks. The ideal candidate will collaborate closely with engineering, platform, and architecture teams to build secure, scalable, and compliant AI-powered solutions while ensuring security is embedded throughout the technology lifecycle\nRole: Principal AI Security Architect\nLocation: Pune, Bengaluru, Hyderabad\nExperience: Between 12 to 15 Years\nJob Type: Full Time Employment\nWhat You'll Do:\nDefine and govern end-to-end security architecture across device, edge, on-premises, cloud, and hybrid ecosystems.\nDesign and implement Zero Trust security architectures leveraging workload identity, PKI, mTLS, JWT, hardware-backed credentials, and trust federation.\nArchitect authentication, authorization, secrets management, credential lifecycle management, and privileged access controls.\nEstablish secure identity frameworks for users, workloads, services, applications, and AI agents.\nLead threat modeling activities for distributed systems, AI/ML platforms, APIs, multi-agent systems, and edge-to-cloud communications.\nDevelop security strategies for AI-powered platforms, intelligent agents, orchestration engines, APIs, plugins, tools, registries, and model interactions.\nDefine security controls for Generative AI, Agentic AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and AI orchestration frameworks.\nConduct architecture reviews and security assessments to identify vulnerabilities, risks, and mitigation strategies.\nEstablish enterprise-wide security governance standards, design patterns, and best practices.\nCollaborate with engineering and platform teams to integrate security controls into application and infrastructure architectures.\nDrive implementation of secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC) practices and DevSecOps methodologies.\nEnsure compliance with security regulations, industry standards, and enterprise governance requirements.\nDefine data protection, encryption, tokenization, and privacy strategies across AI and distributed environments.\nSupport incident response preparation, security investigations, and threat mitigation initiatives.\nGuide security modernization initiatives across cloud-native and distributed technology platforms.\nProvide technical leadership and mentorship to security and engineering teams.\nExpertise You'll Bring:\n12 to 15 years of experience in Security Architecture, Enterprise Security Engineering, Platform Security, or Cybersecurity Leadership roles.\nProven expertise in designing and implementing Zero Trust security architectures.\nStrong experience with authentication, authorization, identity and access management (IAM), and federated identity solutions.\nDeep knowledge of PKI, mTLS, JWT, certificate-based authentication, and trust federation architectures.\nExtensive experience securing cloud-native, distributed, edge, mobile, and on-premises platforms.\nStrong understanding of workload identity, secrets management, credential lifecycle management, and privileged access controls.\nExperience working with trust federation frameworks such as SPIFFE/SPIRE or equivalent technologies.\nHands-on experience conducting threat modeling, risk assessments, architecture reviews, and security governance initiatives.\nStrong expertise in securing APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and service-to-service communications.\nKnowledge of AI/ML security, Generative AI security, Agentic AI, RAG architectures, and multi-agent ecosystems.\nExperience implementing security controls for AI models, orchestration platforms, vector databases, prompts, and inference services.\nStrong understanding of Kubernetes security, container security, cloud platform security, and infrastructure hardening.\nExperience securing software supply chains and implementing secure development and deployment practices.\nKnowledge of DevSecOps, vulnerability management, compliance frameworks, and security monitoring.\nStrong leadership, stakeholder management, and communication skills.\nAbility to influence enterprise security strategy and collaborate with engineering, architecture, and business leadership teams.\nStrong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.\nExperience leading enterprise-scale security transformation and modernization initiatives.\nBenefits:\nCompetitive salary and benefits package\nCulture focused on talent development with quarterly growth opportunities and company-sponsored higher education and certifications\nOpportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies\nEmployee engagement initiatives such as project parties, flexible work hours, and Long Service awards\nAnnual health check-ups\nInsurance coverage: group term life, personal accident, and Mediclaim hospitalization for self, spouse, two children, and parents\nValues-Driven, People-Centric & Inclusive Work Environment:\nPersistent is dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We invite applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities, and regardless of gender or gender preference. 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