EY - GDS Consulting - AIA - AI Architect-Cyber - Senior Manager

The opportunity

We are seeking an experienced AI architect with Cyber Security experience to help clients address cyber risks identified through advanced cybersecurity and AI-driven security tools, including frontier AI-assisted vulnerability discovery platforms. The role combines AI architecture background with cybersecurity consulting, solution architecture, AI-enabled remediation, and managed service delivery.

The successful candidate will work with large Banking, Capital Markets, and Financial Services clients to assess cyber exposures, define remediation strategies, establish Cyber Remediation Factories, and lead end-to-end delivery of remediation programs at scale.

Your key responsibilities

Cyber Risk Advisory & Architecture

• Assess vulnerabilities and control gaps identified through security assessments, penetration testing, threat intelligence, and AI-enabled cyber tools.
• Define enterprise remediation strategies for:
  • Infrastructure security
  • Cloud security
  • Identity & Access Management
  • Application security
  • API security
  • Third-party risk
• Advise CISOs, CIOs, CTOs, and Risk leaders on cyber resilience improvements.

AI-Driven Cyber Remediation

• Design AI and Agentic AI-enabled approaches for:
  • Vulnerability prioritization
  • Risk scoring
  • Remediation orchestration
  • Continuous control validation
• Establish governance, guardrails, and human oversight mechanisms for AI-enabled cyber operations.
• Identify opportunities to automate remediation workflows and increase remediation velocity.

Cyber Remediation Factory

• Design and implement Cyber Remediation Factories covering:
  • Vulnerability management
  • Security configuration remediation
  • Cloud posture management
  • Application security fixes
  • Identity remediation
  • Third-party remediation
• Define operating models, processes, KPIs, SLAs, governance, and executive dashboards.

Delivery Leadership

• Lead multidisciplinary remediation teams across cyber, cloud, infrastructure, and application domains.
• Manage remediation backlogs, risk-based prioritization, and stakeholder communications.
• Track key metrics such as MTTR, critical vulnerability closure, risk reduction, and regulatory readiness.

Skills and Attributes:

Professional Experience

• 12–18+ years of experience in Cyber Security, Security Architecture, or Cyber Transformation.
• Experience leading large-scale vulnerability management or remediation programs.
• Hands-on knowledge of:
  • Cloud Security (Azure, AWS, GCP)
  • IAM/PAM
  • Application Security
  • Security Operations
  • Vulnerability Management
  • Zero Trust Architecture
• Experience with AI, GenAI, Agentic AI, or Security Copilot solutions in cybersecurity use cases.
• Strong client-facing and executive stakeholder management skills.

Educational Background

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related quantitative field.
• Advanced certifications in Azure AI, Generative AI, Machine Learning, Solution Architecture, Cloud Technologies, Responsible AI, AI Governance, or Agentic AI platforms are preferred.

Technical Skills

• Hands-on knowledge of:
  • Cloud Security (Azure, AWS, GCP)
  • IAM/PAM
  • Application Security
  • Security Operations
  • Vulnerability Management
  • Zero Trust Architecture
• Experience with AI, GenAI, Agentic AI, or Security Copilot solutions in cybersecurity use cases.
• Strong client-facing and executive stakeholder management skills.

Platform Experience

• Microsoft Security Copilot
• Microsoft Sentinel
• Defender Suite
• Tenable
• Qualys
• Rapid7
• Wiz
• Prisma Cloud
• CrowdStrike
• ServiceNow SecOps

Soft Skills

• Strong consulting, stakeholder management, executive presence, and client engagement capabilities.
• Ability to translate complex business problems into AI, Agentic AI, AI architecture, governance, and analytics solutions and communicate technical concepts to business stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, presentation, workshop facilitation, proposal development, and executive stakeholder management skills.
• Proven thought leadership in AI strategy, Responsible AI, AI Governance, enterprise architecture, innovation, and business transformation.
• Strong team leadership, mentoring, people development, delivery management, and capability-building skills.

Success Profile

• The ideal candidate is a strategic cyber leader who can:
  • Translate cyber findings into actionable remediation programs.
  • Architect AI-enabled cyber resilience solutions.
  • Build and run Cyber Remediation Factories.
  • Engage effectively with executive stakeholders.
  • Deliver measurable reductions in cyber risk for large financial services clients.

Primary Outcome: Establish and operate scalable AI-enabled Cyber Remediation Factories that accelerate vulnerability remediation, improve cyber resilience, and help clients stay ahead of emerging AI-driven cyber threats.

Why Join Us

• Be at the forefront of AI‑driven innovation across multiple client sectors.
• Work with global clients to drive real business impact.
• Collaborate with a team of AI experts, analytics leaders, and industry specialists in a highly entrepreneurial environment.

What we offer

EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) is a dynamic and truly global delivery network. We work across six locations – Argentina, China, India, the Philippines, Poland and the UK – and with teams from all EY service lines, geographies and sectors, playing a vital role in the delivery of the EY growth strategy. From accountants to coders to advisory consultants, we offer a wide variety of fulfilling career opportunities that span all business disciplines. In GDS, you will collaborate with EY teams on exciting projects and work with well-known brands from across the globe. We’ll introduce you to an ever-expanding ecosystem of people, learning, skills and insights that will stay with you throughout your career.

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

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