Principal AI Governance Architect

Huron is a global consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive strategic growth ignite innovation and navigate constant change. Through a combination of strategy expertise and creativity we help clients accelerate operational digital and cultural transformation enabling the change they need to own their future.

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Key Responsibilities

• Translate security privacy compliance and architecture requirements into executable controls for AI workloads.
• Define workload classification patterns and required controls for each class.
• Establish prompt response embedding retrieval logging retention redaction and client data segregation patterns in partnership with control functions.
• Define audit evidence patterns for model access data movement retrieval tool calls approvals exceptions and operational events.
• Design identity secrets network sandbox logging and approval-gate patterns for AI applications and agents.
• Build governed knowledge patterns for authoritative sources ingestion indexing metadata access control freshness citation and retrieval evaluation.
• Help select the first Huron Knowledge domain source or integration pattern for MVP validation.
• Define and implement retrieval quality metrics model evaluation patterns regression checks operational telemetry dashboards and quality reporting.
• Partner with infrastructure engineers to implement controls evidence and reporting through automation rather than manual processes.
• Help teams understand whether AI systems are producing useful grounded safe auditable and cost-effective outputs.
• Use AI tools hands-on to accelerate control design policy mapping knowledge analysis evaluation design dashboard development documentation and evidence review.

Required Qualifications

• 8 years of experience across cloud security platform security governance engineering security architecture data engineering observability analytics engineering ML evaluation or AI application monitoring.
• Strong understanding of identity network controls secrets management logging audit trails data classification least-privilege design and evidence capture.
• Familiarity with retrieval-augmented generation embeddings vector stores metadata indexing citation access control and knowledge-source quality.
• Ability to translate policy risk quality and observability requirements into practical engineering controls and metrics.
• Strong software data engineering automation or analytics engineering skills.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI tools as a practical system-building accelerator for governance engineering analysis dashboard development evaluation documentation or control review.
• Strong documentation and communication skills for control standards decision records dashboards exception patterns and audit evidence.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AI governance model risk management LLM application security agent security or data protection for AI systems.
• Experience with Amazon Bedrock AWS IAM CloudTrail CloudWatch PrivateLink KMS VPC design OpenSearch vector databases BI tools or observability platforms.
• Experience with LLM evaluation prompt evaluation retrieval evaluation golden datasets regression testing or AI quality frameworks.
• Experience with Temporal or comparable workflow orchestration platforms for approval flows evidence capture evaluation workflows or operational reporting.
• Experience with enterprise knowledge systems document repositories metadata governance search relevance or permission-aware retrieval.
• Experience with PHI PII client-confidential regulated or sensitive-data environments.

Flexible living locations across the US. Ability to travel as needed.

The estimated base salary for this job is $190000 - $265000 USD. The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors including but not limited to specific skills or certifications years of experience market changes and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Hurons annual incentive compensation program which reflects Hurons pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity the total estimated compensation range for this job is $237000 - $357000 USD. The job is also eligible to participate in Hurons benefit plans which include medical dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs. The salary range information provided is in accordance with applicable state and local laws regarding salary transparency that are currently in effect and may be implemented in the future.