Senior AI Security & Governance Consultant

About this role

About Us
Thrive delivers upon the promise of technology by enabling our clients’ digital transformation journeys with best practices on an AI, cybersecurity and cloud focused NextGen managed services platform.
Thrive’s culture is powered by diverse talent, big ideas, and a customer-first mindset—and it’s what truly sets us apart. Thrive is built for people who want more than a weekday routine. If you’re hungry to grow, eager to tackle new challenges and ready to drive real impact in a rapidly expanding environment, then welcome to THRIVE!
Position Overview
Thrive is seeking a client-facing Senior AI Security Architect to help organizations adopt AI safely, securely, and responsibly through technically validated security, compliance, governance, and data protection controls.
This role serves as Thrive’s technical authority for AI security architecture, technical risk validation, Microsoft Purview implementation, and governance-control design within AI Services. A successful candidate should be highly knowledgeable of technologies like Microsoft Purview, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Chat, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI ChatGPT, and other AI security and governance tools. You will work directly with client stakeholders and Thrive’s Microsoft Advisory team to assess technical AI security readiness, identify security and compliance risks, evaluate data exposure, design practical governance controls, and support architecture decisions that enable organizations to scale AI with confidence.
As AI adoption accelerates, organizations must understand what data AI can access, who has access to that data, what compliance risks exist, and how technical governance controls should be implemented and validated before deployment. You will lead the technical security and control conversations while partnering with Microsoft Advisory on Microsoft-focused strategy, Copilot and AI readiness, licensing and capability alignment, adoption, optimization, governance operating models, and executive roadmaps.
This role sits within the AI Services organization and works closely with Microsoft Advisory, the AI Governance team, Security Operations, Cloud Security, Microsoft Engineering Services, and other technical teams to ensure clients have a secure technical foundation for AI adoption.
Requirements
What You'll Do
Lead Microsoft Purview Technical Assessment & Implementation Engagements

• Serve as Thrive’s technical subject matter expert for Microsoft Purview architecture, implementation, testing, and validation within AI Services.

• Assess client compliance, governance-control, data protection, and information protection requirements from a technical security perspective.

• Design, configure, implement, and validate Microsoft Purview solutions including Information Protection, Sensitivity Labels, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Data Lifecycle Management, AI-DSPM, Records Management, eDiscovery, Communication Compliance, Insider Risk Management, and Compliance Manager.

• Contribute technical control recommendations to governance roadmaps and compliance strategies led in partnership with Microsoft Advisory.

• Lead Purview technical workshops, architecture reviews, implementation planning sessions, and technical findings readouts.
Conduct AI Security & Technical Readiness Assessments
Evaluate technical security readiness for AI deployments, in coordination with Microsoft Advisory where Microsoft business readiness, adoption, licensing, and roadmap alignment are in scope. Platforms may include:

• Microsoft 365 Copilot

• Microsoft Copilot Chat

• Copilot Studio

• ChatGPT Business and Enterprise

• Claude Business and Enterprise

• Snowflake Cortex

• Third-party AI platforms and AI agents

• Emerging enterprise AI technologies
Responsibilities include

• AI security assessments

• Technical governance-control maturity reviews

• Data exposure analysis

• Privacy and compliance reviews

• AI risk assessments

• Vendor security evaluations

• Policy and control recommendations
Perform Microsoft 365 AI Security Environment Reviews
Lead technical discovery and assessment engagements focused on Microsoft 365 security posture, data exposure, permissions, identity controls, and AI-related risk validation.
Activities include

• Microsoft 365 tenant security assessments

• SharePoint permissions reviews

• OneDrive data exposure analysis

• Teams governance reviews

• Microsoft Entra ID security assessments

• Conditional Access reviews

• Sensitive data discovery

• Identity and access management reviews

• External sharing assessments

• Security control gap analysis
Deliver technical findings and remediation recommendations that support Microsoft Advisory’s broader Copilot readiness, adoption, governance, and executive roadmap deliverables.
Support AI Governance Strategy Through Technical Security and Control Expertise
Partner with Microsoft Advisory and client leadership teams to contribute technical security, risk, privacy, and governance-control expertise to AI governance strategies and roadmaps.
Responsibilities include

• Technical governance-control workshops

• AI policy control input and technical validation

• Technical risk and remediation planning

• Security, privacy, and data protection control design

• Compliance control mapping and implementation planning

• Technical findings that inform executive briefings and roadmap recommendations led with Microsoft Advisory
Help clients balance innovation with security, compliance, responsible AI practices, and technically validated governance controls.
Lead Client Engagements
Act as the primary technical security and governance-control architect during AI Services engagements, while partnering with Microsoft Advisory on broader Microsoft strategy, adoption, licensing, readiness, optimization, operating model, and executive roadmap discussions.
You will regularly engage with:

• CIOs

• CISOs

• IT Directors

• Compliance Officers

• Risk Leaders

• Legal Teams

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