Security Architect (Hybrid) in London

The AI Security & Governance Architect is a senior individual contributor role within IQVIA's Security Architecture team. Artificial intelligence and generative AI are transforming how IQVIA operates — from developer productivity and business workflows to data analytics and clinical innovation. As adoption accelerates across the enterprise, the security organization must scale its ability to govern, assess, and enable that adoption responsibly and at pace.

This role sits within a broader AI security strategy function and reports to the Security Architecture leader responsible for IQVIA's enterprise AI security direction. The AI Security & Governance Architect is instrumental in executing and maturing that strategy: working directly with development teams, the Data Office, and business units across IQVIA's global operations to embed security and governance into AI adoption — asking the right questions, establishing the right workflows, and maintaining the visibility and control the organization needs as AI use scales.

IQVIA has existing AI governance committees and taskforces in place. This role is not a greenfield build, but the pace of AI adoption across the business demands a significant step-up in program maturity, coverage, and consistency. The AI Security & Governance Architect will be central to that effort — owning key governance and assessment workstreams, representing Security Architecture in cross-functional forums, and ensuring that as IQVIA scales its use of technologies such as Microsoft Copilot, Claude, and other leading generative AI platforms, it does so with the appropriate security controls, governance frameworks, and architectural guardrails in place.

You will sit within the global Information Security organization, with close working relationships across Security Architecture, Cloud Security, Application Security, the Data Office, Legal, Privacy, Compliance, and business units spanning IQVIA's global operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to and help execute IQVIA's AI security strategy, providing hands-on program delivery across governance, risk assessment, and stakeholder engagement workstreams under the direction of the Security Architecture AI lead.
• Act as a primary security architecture partner for business units, development teams, and the Data Office as they evaluate, adopt, and scale generative AI tools and platforms.
• Own and operate the AI security intake and review process for new generative AI platform and tool requests.
• Represent Security Architecture in IQVIA's existing AI governance committees and taskforces.
• Develop, maintain, and operationalize AI security standards, guidelines, and reference architectures.
• Conduct AI security architecture reviews for new and existing AI integrations.
• Build and maintain scalable AI security workflows, assessment playbooks, and decision frameworks.
• Define and maintain security requirements for enterprise generative AI platforms.
• Partner with development teams to provide practical AI security guidance.
• Support the development of AI security awareness and guidance materials.
• Monitor the evolving AI security and regulatory landscape.
• Collaborate with Legal, Privacy, and Compliance teams on AI-related regulatory requirements.
• Define metrics and reporting for AI security governance.

Required Experience and Qualifications:

• Substantial progressive experience in Information Security, Security Architecture, or related technical roles.
• Strong working knowledge of generative AI security risks and controls.
• Experience assessing and governing the adoption of enterprise AI and generative AI tools.
• Familiarity with AI security frameworks and standards.
• Experience engaging with governance committees, risk review boards, or cross-functional taskforces.
• Working knowledge of cloud environments (Microsoft Azure and/or Amazon AWS).
• Experience partnering with development teams, data teams, and business stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of data protection principles as they apply to AI systems.
• Familiarity with secure architecture patterns for LLM-integrated systems is preferred.
• Experience within regulated industries — life sciences, healthcare, or financial services — is preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or equivalent practical experience is preferred.
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, AWS/Azure Security Specialty, or equivalent are preferred but not mandatory.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries.