CS Architect, Sr

About the role

The Sr. Security Architect utilizes their knowledge of IT and information security engineering to lead and/or participate in the development of assigned projects or solutions. The Sr. Security Architect focuses on implementing security requirements for assigned projects and solutions while maintaining compliance with internal and externals policies and regulations. This Sr. Security Architect role focuses on the design, review of AI Security architecture and as well as the deployment and management of AI Solutions at Entergy. It includes (but not limited to) the secure deployment of AI products/services, administration and governance of AI models, deployment and management of AI agents and infrastructure supporting AI use cases. This role will also provide governance and oversight into the consumption of AI, providing input, providing input into aspects such as the creation of usage policies, forecasting and optimizing token consumption, model selection while maintaining stringent security controls.

Location: The Woodlands, TX; Little Rock, AR; New Orleans, LA; Jackson, MS. Job Function: Corporate. FLSA Status: Professional. Travel up to 25%.

Responsibilities

• Architect and secure AI solutions in multi-cloud environment to enable secure deployment of enterprise AI solutions.
• Establish security requirements for cloud-based solutions by evaluating business strategies and ongoing requirements, researching cloud infrastructure security standards such as NIST CSF and NERC CIP.
• Architect, build, and enforce security guard rails for AI agents, establishing robust governance frameworks to monitor and control agentic behaviors.
• Participate in review of new applications with AI features.
• Leads the product selection or review for new cloud and AI security technologies, conducting Proof of concepts (POC), and technical evaluations.
• Establish and maintain effective relationships with process owners/business units to proactively assess business risks and develop risk mitigation.
• Design and participate in the continued management and maintenance of AI security policies, Standards, guardrails, and roadmaps.
• Design and implement security controls for SaaS and PaaS AI integrations to ensure continuous data protection, DLP, and regulatory compliance.
• Participate in security and non-security projects to ensure that security requirements are defined and implemented.
• Perform assessments and threat modeling of existing and emerging technologies to ensure they meet Entergy security and compliance requirements.
• Evangelize and advocate for information security with stakeholders.
• Monitor emerging trends in Information Security and technology and make or suggest changes to Entergy’s security posture as necessary.

Requirements

Experience needed:

• Knowledge and experience in ML pipeline architecture.
• Concepts of data ingestion, Authentication & Data security, Model Concept Protocol (