Novartis

Associate Director, AI Security Architecture

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2 days ago
Barcelona, SpainStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead AI architectural activities and develop secure solution architectures across business and technology domains.
  • Define standards, best practices, governance frameworks, and reusable architecture patterns for AI security.
  • Assess and mitigate security risks across AI model training, deployment, operations, pipelines, datasets, and infrastructure.
  • Evaluate AI security technologies and integrate controls across AI platforms and Large Language Models.
  • Protect AI and agentic systems against model poisoning, adversarial inputs, prompt injection, jailbreaking, and emerging threats.
  • 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 supporting secure software development.
  • Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and DevOps teams across 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 of architecture experience, 5 years of development experience, and 2+ years of AI security and engineering experience.
  • Proven AI security architecture expertise covering training data, models, pipelines, deployed AI solutions, 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

  • Annual base salary range of €57,900.00–€107,500.00, plus potential performance-based bonus.
  • Insurance plans, retirement plans, wellbeing resources, and global recognition programs.
  • Flexible and hybrid working options where possible and a minimum of 14 weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Role is based in Barcelona; relocation support is not offered, so applicants must already be accessible to the location.
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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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