Novartis

Associate Director, AI Security Architecture

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3 days ago
Hyderābād, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead AI architectural activities and develop secure solution architectures across business and technology domains.
  • Define security standards, best practices, governance frameworks, methods, and reusable architecture patterns for AI systems.
  • Assess and mitigate risks across AI model training, deployment, and operations, including model poisoning, adversarial inputs, prompt injection, and jailbreaking.
  • Evaluate AI security technologies and integrate controls across AI platforms and Large Language Models.
  • Design Model Context Protocol servers, AI agent workflows, secure deployment architectures, and AI gateway integrations.
  • Build Python services, developer tools, integrations, and AI security harnesses.
  • Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and DevOps teams to embed security throughout the AI development lifecycle.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of overall professional experience, including substantial experience in security, architecture, software development, and AI security engineering.
  • At least 5 years of security experience, 5 years in architecture, 5 years in development, and 2+ years in AI security and engineering.
  • Expertise in AI security architecture covering training data, models, pipelines, deployed AI solutions, security policies, standards, and architecture patterns.
  • Strong knowledge of AI threats, risk identification, threat modeling, data privacy, and defenses against adversarial and AI-based attacks.
  • Hands-on experience securing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning applications across cloud platforms, with strong Amazon Web Services engineering and architecture expertise.
  • Production experience with AI coding agents, Model Context Protocol servers, agent workflows, Python development, automated testing, and AI gateway integrations.
  • Security engineering or application security experience and experience evaluating specialized AI security technologies are desirable.
  • Experience building developer-facing command-line tools and working in multi-vendor, global technology environments is desirable.

Benefits

  • Hybrid role in Hyderabad.
  • Relocation support is available.
  • Novartis provides reasonable accommodation during recruitment and employment for individuals with disabilities.

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About Novartis

10,000+ employees

Novartis is an innovative medicines company. Every day, working to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives so that patients, healthcare professionals and societies are empowered in the face of serious disease. Our medicines reach more than 250 million people worldwide. Find out more at https://www.novartis.com See our community guidelines: https://go.novartis.social/3Nboxki

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