Senior Director, Infrastructure & AI Operations

Inventiva; France; Remote; EUR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Inventiva, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company based in France, seeks a Senior Director of Infrastructure & Operations to lead the technology backbone and ensure secure, reliable, and scalable IT services across R&D, clinical, commercial and corporate functions.

You will build a modern, AI-enabled infrastructure program, drive automation, and elevate the employee digital experience while maintaining compliance with GxP and data integrity standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy, architecture and operation of enterprise infrastructure, network services, storage, and end-user computing.
• Own Service Operations including service desk, incident/problem/change management and SLAs.
• Drive self-service adoption, automated support and improved service delivery.
• Oversee productivity platforms (Microsoft 365, email, messaging, document collaboration) and AV/conference room tech.
• Partner with R&D, Cybersecurity, Data & AI to apply AI use cases.
• Ensure infrastructure resilience, backup, disaster recovery and regulatory compliance.
• Lead cost management, performance, and continuous improvement across IT infrastructure.

Skills

Leadership and people leadership

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic technology planning

AI/automation awareness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

12+ years IT infrastructure/Service Ops leadership

Tools

Microsoft 365

ITSM

Endpoint management

Networking

AV/Collaboration technologies

Observability & automation

Job description

Inventiva, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company based in France, seeks a Senior Director of Infrastructure & Operations to lead the technology backbone and ensure secure, reliable, and scalable IT services across R&D, clinical, commercial and corporate functions.

You will build a modern, AI-enabled infrastructure program, drive automation, and elevate the employee digital experience while maintaining compliance with GxP and data integrity standards.