NielsenIQ

NielsenIQ

Senior Principal Architect, Cyber Security – AI

Toronto, ON, Canada · Principal

Sponsorship not specified$129k-$180kDetected 9 days ago
Vector DatabasesCloud PlatformsCI/CDMachine LearningData EngineeringData ScienceLLMsRAGAgentic AIMLOpsAI OrchestrationCybersecurityNetwork SecuritySOC OperationsIncident ResponseComplianceStakeholder ManagementSupply ChainProcurementLeadershipCommunicationProblem SolvingInternal Audit

About the role

  • All use of AI is governed by NIQ's principles of fairness, transparency, human oversight, and inclusion.
  • Final hiring decisions are made exclusively by humans.

Responsibilities

  • Provide senior security architecture leadership for AI initiatives, ensuring AI systems and services are secure by design and aligned with enterprise cyber security strategy, risk appetite, and regulatory expectations.
  • Define and maintain AI security principles, standards, guardrails, reference architectures, design patterns, and production readiness criteria across the AI lifecycle.
  • Design and support implementation of security controls across identity and access management, privileged access, secrets management, encryption, key management, network security, secure APIs, logging, monitoring, resilience, and incident response.
  • Identify and support mitigation of AI-specific risks, including data leakage, prompt injection, model extraction, model inversion, training data poisoning, insecure output handling, excessive agency, insecure RAG implementations, supply chain compromise, and unauthorised access.
  • Partner with engineering, data science, platform, and security teams to embed security into AI development, MLOps, CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and operational monitoring.
  • These tools are intended to improve efficiency and support fair and consistent evaluation based on job-related criteria.

Requirements

  • Support the Director of Cyber Security Architecture with AI security strategy, governance, reporting, and other duties as required.
  • Experience with MLOps platforms, model registries, feature stores, vector databases, RAG architectures, prompt orchestration frameworks, or AI agent frameworks.
  • Experience with AI, GenAI, or LLM security testing, red teaming, or adversarial testing.

Skills

  • NIQ regularly reviews its AI tools to help mitigate bias and ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

Compensation

  • $129k-$180k

Benefits

  • Flexible working environment
  • Volunteer time off
  • LinkedIn Learning

Company info

  • https://nielseniq.com/global/en/info/niqs-ai-safety-policies/
  • NIQ is the world's leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth.
  • In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach.
  • With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights-delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms-NIQ delivers the Full View™.
  • NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world's population.
  • For more information, visit NIQ.com
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