Senior AI Security Architect & Strategy Lead

Novartis AG; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 58,000 - 108,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis AG in Barcelona seeks an experienced Assoc. Dir. DDIT ISC Security Architecture AI to shape secure AI solutions across the lifecycle.

You will lead security architectures, define AI security standards, and partner with data scientists, engineers, and DevOps to embed security in development, deployment, and operations. The role demands 12+ years in security/architecture/AI, strong AWS experience, and hands-on Python development.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of professional experience across security, architecture, software development and AI security engineering.
• At least 5 years of security, 5 years in architecture, 5 years in development, and 2+ years in AI security.
• Proven AI security architecture expertise covering training data, models, pipelines, and policies.
• Strong knowledge of AI threats, risk modeling, data privacy and defenses against adversarial AI attacks.
• Hands-on experience securing AI applications across cloud platforms, with AWS engineering/architecture expertise.
• Production experience with Python development and AI gateway integrations.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI architectural activities and develop secure solution architectures across domains.
• Define AI security standards and best practices for protecting AI pipelines, datasets, models, and infrastructure.
• Develop logical architecture designs to secure AI domains and infrastructure.
• Establish AI architecture governance frameworks and reusable patterns.
• Assess AI landscape to identify and mitigate security risks across model training, deployment and operations.
• Evaluate AI security technologies and integrate security controls across AI platforms and LLMs.
• Secure AI and agentic systems against model poisoning and adversarial 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 for secure software development.
• Collaborate with data scientists, engineers and DevOps to embed security in the AI lifecycle.

Skills

AI security

Security architecture

Python development

AWS engineering

Tools

AWS

Job description

Novartis AG in Barcelona seeks an experienced Assoc. Dir. DDIT ISC Security Architecture AI to shape secure AI solutions across the lifecycle.

You will lead security architectures, define AI security standards, and partner with data scientists, engineers, and DevOps to embed security in development, deployment, and operations. The role demands 12+ years in security/architecture/AI, strong AWS experience, and hands-on Python development.