Director, AI Architecture & Security

GSK; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 169,000 - 281,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement benefits

Paid holidays

Vacation

Parental leave

Medical leave

Job summary

GSK is seeking a Design Authority for AI Architecture to own the agentic framework and data fabric across Cyber Architecture and Solutions. You will lead three architects and ensure architectural accountability from design through vendor operations.

The role sits in AI ML and Cloud Security, guiding the agentic framework, LLM orchestration, and data fabric pipeline while aligning with regulatory standards and enterprise security requirements across the US.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in cybersecurity or AI architecture with leadership across geographies.
• Experience designing agentic frameworks, multi-agent systems, and RAG architectures.
• Experience designing data fabric architectures with data flow and classification controls.
• Experience developing AI solution blueprints for security use cases and platform selection.
• Experience applying AI security standards and risk frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Act as design authority for every AI solution Cyber Architecture and Solutions builds; nothing enters engineering without a specification from this team.
• Own the agentic framework architecture: agent orchestration, tool invocation control, identity binding, least-privilege scoping, human-in-the-loop gates and trust boundaries.
• Own the data fabric architecture — what data flows where, at what classification, under what controls, and how the fabric evolves as the vendor introduces agentic capability.
• Own the AI reference design and pattern library that Engineering and the vendor build against.
• Lead three architects covering solution architecture, standards and governance.
• Chair the design authority board where every Cyber Architecture and Solutions AI build is approved or sent back before engineering capacity is allocated.
• Assess new AI tool proposals for architectural fit and reject what does not conform.
• Rule on feasibility for the highest-risk R&D and business AI proposals that AI Business Facing escalates to you.
• Assure vendor handover packages and retain architecture accountability once the vendor operates the solution.
• Set the architecture decision record template and arbitrate the decisions it captures, so design rationale stays traceable for audit and regulatory inspection.

Skills

AI architecture

Agentic frameworks

Data fabric architecture

RAG architectures

Security standards

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Vector databases

Python

Kubernetes

Job description

GSK is seeking a Design Authority for AI Architecture to own the agentic framework and data fabric across Cyber Architecture and Solutions. You will lead three architects and ensure architectural accountability from design through vendor operations.

The role sits in AI ML and Cloud Security, guiding the agentic framework, LLM orchestration, and data fabric pipeline while aligning with regulatory standards and enterprise security requirements across the US.