Architecture & Engineering Leader

Introduction

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Your role and responsibilities

Data is the engine of AI - especially the growing trove of unstructured data that fuels model training, fine‑tuning, and inference pipelines. It is critically important to secure this data in enterprises for AI especially given regulatory compliance mandates including privacy.
The Technical Architect will shape and own the end‑to‑end security and compliance framework for all structured and unstructured data used across the organization's AI/ML pipelines. You'll translate regulatory mandates into concrete technical controls, design robust data‑protection architectures, and guide cross‑functional teams to deliver secure, compliant AI solutions at scale.
As the technical architect for security and compliance across the data‑AI lifecycle, you will shape and own the end‑to‑end security and compliance framework for all structured and unstructured data. You will protect sensitive data and build in compliance support so our clients can run AI/ML workloads at scale with confidence.
You will:

• Define the data security and compliance vision and architecture
• Identify, prioritize, and roadmap the necessary technology components
• Lead detailed design and engineering of components
• Work with clients to implement use cases and pilot projects for early validation
• Build internal and external technical partnerships

Technical Focus Areas
(These are illustrative, not exhaustive.)

• Discovery and classification of structured and unstructured data
• At‑rest and in‑flight data protection and privacy-preserving technologies
• Continuous risk and exposure monitoring with proactive alerts on anomalous behavior
• Reconciliation and enforcement of regulatory and policy requirements
• Unified, end‑to‑end lifecycle management across structured and unstructured data
• Governance and access controls aligned with broader security and governance frameworks
• Agentic AI for security and compliance automation

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Lead Data Security Architecture and Implementation

• Understand the competitive landscape and partner with product management to craft and evangelize a unified vision for data security and compliance balancing competing priorities
• Identify, prioritize, and roadmap the necessary technology capabilities with an emphasis on scalability and efficiency
• Drive architecture and design, and oversee engineering execution to keep client value front‑and‑center
• Guide teams to be innovation leaders - pilot new capabilities from incubation through internal adoption to market launch
• Exploit agentic AI to streamline security and compliance workflows and unlock new product possibilities

Advocate and Connect Across (and Outside) the Organization

• Translate technical complexity into clear business context, and conversely turn business needs into actionable technical strategy
• Act as the primary liaison between highly technical teams, clients, and business stakeholders
• Build and drive partnerships with IBM Research and IBM Consulting to bring cutting‑edge research into real‑world client use cases
• Work with relevant industry standards and open-source initiatives; promote our technologies at industry events

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Deep technical expertise and hands-on experience in information security, complex systems, and agentic AI solutions for security and compliance
• Proven track record of designing, building, and delivering innovative technologies at scale
• Demonstrated ability to influence and lead large‑scale, cross‑functional programs and align diverse teams around a common vision

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

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Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

Client-provided location(s): Peekskill, NY

Job ID: IBM-66575

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-10-18T18:47:31