Principal AI and Data Security Architect

Principal AI and Data Security Architect

FICO (NYSE: FICO) is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions. Join our world-class team today and fulfill your career potential!

The Opportunity

"The role will define and drive the security architecture strategy for FICO's rapidly expanding AI ecosystem - from LLM-powered products and agentic AI systems to the data pipelines and analytical models that underpin our decisioning platform" - Hiring Manager

What You'll Contribute 

• Define and maintain FICO's AI security reference architectures and design patterns spanning LLM integrations, RAG architectures, agentic AI systems, MCP server deployments, and ML training pipelines. 
• ·Architect security controls across the AI model lifecycle - training data provenance, artifact signing, model registry governance, inference endpoint hardening, and runtime monitoring - ensuring FICO's analytical models are protected against data poisoning, model extraction, adversarial evasion, and prompt injection. 
• Drive architectural decisions for AI security platform selection and integration (AI-SPM, LLM firewalls, MLSecOps tooling). 
• Define the security strategy for FICO's AI consumption posture - centralized AI tool inventory, shadow AI detection, SaaS AI acceptable use enforcement, and developer workstation AI monitoring. 
• Own FICO's enterprise data security strategy encompassing data classification, DSPM, DLP, sensitive data discovery, and data lineage across cloud, SaaS, and on-premises environments. 
• Architect prompt-layer and AI-workflow data protection controls to prevent inadvertent leakage of sensitive data or proprietary model logic through AI tool interactions. 
• Lead security architecture for data governance within the Analytical Model Life Cycle, ensuring data quality, sanitization, and provenance tracking are embedded as security gates. 
• Serve as the trusted security advisor to product engineering, data science, and platform teams, translating complex AI and data security risks into business-consumable guidance for leadership and product management. 
• ·Participate in product planning cycles and architecture review boards, ensuring "secure by design" and "privacy by design" principles are embedded from the earliest stages of AI feature development and data systems. 
• ·Author and maintain AI-specific threat libraries aligned to MITRE ATLAS, OWASP LLM Top 10, and OWASP Agentic AI Top 10, and lead AI-specific threat modeling for FICO products. 
• Set the direction for AI security standards, policies, and governance frameworks aligned to EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, and applicable regulations, in coordination with GRC and legal teams. 
• Collaborate with Cyber Security Operations, Incident Response, and Security Engineering teams to ensure AI-specific detection use cases, logging standards, and response playbooks are operationally viable. 

What We're Seeking 

• A collaborative leader who raises the bar for the team and brings clarity in ambiguous, fast-moving situations. 
• Deep architectural understanding of AI/ML security risks across the full lifecycle: training data integrity, model supply chain, inference security, prompt injection/jailbreaking, model extraction, adversarial attacks, and AI agent governance. 
• Experience architecting security for LLM-based applications, RAG systems, agentic AI frameworks, and multi-model orchestration (e.g., MCP, tool-use patterns, AI gateways). 
• A hands-on builder's mindset - strong software engineering skills in Python and/or Java, with a bias toward writing code, building tooling, and automating security controls rather than producing paper artifacts. 
• Strong architectural experience with enterprise data security: DSPM, DLP, data classification, sensitive data discovery, encryption, key management, and data access governance. 
• ·Extensive architectural understanding of cloud security, Kubernetes, cloud-native computing, and microservices. 
• ·Experience at an architecture capacity within a complex, multi-product enterprise environment, with the ability to operate at both strategic and design levels. 
• Knowledge of MLSecOps practices including ML pipeline security, model provenance and artifact signing, model registry governance, and automated AI security testing. 
• ·Familiarity with AI security frameworks and taxonomies: MITRE ATLAS, OWASP LLM Top 10, NIST AI RMF, and ISO 42001. 
• ·Experience with architecture and security reviews, threat modeling, and application risk assessments, with the capability of articulating complex architectural challenges in a consumable way for business leadership and product management. 
• Strong knowledge of privacy laws and regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, DPDP Act (India), and financial regulations including PCI DSS. Familiarity with ISO 27001, NIST CSF, and emerging AI governance regulations. ​

Our Offer to You

• An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values: Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.
• The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.
• Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so.
• An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.

Why Make a Move to FICO?

At FICO, you can develop your career with a leading organization in one of the fastest-growing fields in technology today – Big Data analytics.  You’ll play a part in our commitment to help businesses use data to improve every choice they make, using advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, optimization, and much more.

FICO makes a real difference in the way businesses operate worldwide:

•    Credit Scoring — FICO® Scores are used by 90 of the top 100 US lenders.

•    Fraud Detection and Security — 4 billion payment cards globally are protected by FICO fraud systems.

•    Lending — 3/4 of US mortgages are approved using the FICO Score.

Global trends toward digital transformation have created tremendous demand for FICO’s solutions, placing us among the world’s top 100 software companies by revenue. We help many of the world’s largest banks, insurers, retailers, telecommunications providers and other firms reach a new level of success. Our success is dependent on really talented people – just like you – who thrive on the collaboration and innovation that’s nurtured by a diverse and inclusive environment. We’ll provide the support you need, while ensuring you have the freedom to develop your skills and grow your career.  Join FICO and help change the way business thinks!

Learn more about how you can fulfil your potential at www.fico.com/Careers

FICO promotes a culture of inclusion and seeks to attract a diverse set of candidates for each job opportunity. We are an equal employment opportunity employer and we’re proud to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all candidates without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Research has shown that women and candidates from underrepresented communities may not apply for an opportunity if they don’t meet all stated qualifications. While our qualifications are clearly related to role success, each candidate’s profile is unique and strengths in certain skill and/or experience areas can be equally effective. If you believe you have many, but not necessarily all, of the stated qualifications we encourage you to apply.

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Experience Level

Senior Level