Senior AI Security Architecture Leader

(FCRS = US014) Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 58,000 - 108,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation in Barcelona is seeking a senior professional to shape secure AI architectures and guard AI pipelines, models, data, and deployments. The role interfaces with AI, cybersecurity, cloud, and architecture teams to address evolving threats and develop scalable security solutions.

Responsibilities include defining AI security standards, governance, and integration of security controls across AI platforms.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience across security, architecture, software development, and AI security engineering.
• At least 5 years in security, 5 years in architecture, 5 years in development, and 2+ years in AI security and engineering.
• Proven AI security architecture expertise covering training data, models, pipelines, security policies and architecture patterns.
• Hands-on experience securing AI/ML applications across cloud platforms, with strong AWS engineering and architecture expertise.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI architectural activities and develop secure solution architectures across business and technology domains.
• Define AI security standards and best practices for protecting AI pipelines, datasets, models, and infrastructure.
• Develop logical architecture designs and strategies to secure the organization’s AI domain and infrastructure.
• Establish and evolve AI architecture governance frameworks, including methods, practices, standards, and reusable architecture patterns.
• Assess the AI landscape, identifying and mitigating security risks across model training, deployment, and operations.
• Evaluate AI security technologies and integrate appropriate security controls across AI platforms and Large Language Models.
• Secure 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 to embed security throughout the AI development lifecycle.

Skills

AI security

Security architecture

Cloud security

Python development

AWS engineering

Tools

Python

AWS

Job description

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation in Barcelona is seeking a senior professional to shape secure AI architectures and guard AI pipelines, models, data, and deployments. The role interfaces with AI, cybersecurity, cloud, and architecture teams to address evolving threats and develop scalable security solutions.

Responsibilities include defining AI security standards, governance, and integration of security controls across AI platforms.