Remote Executive AI Architect & Lab Lead

Novartis Group Companies; United States; Remote; USD 225,000 - 419,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-based cash incentive

Annual equity awards

Health, life and disability benefits

401(k) with company contribution/match

Generous time off

Job summary

Novartis Group Companies seeks an Executive Director, Agentic Lab and Architecture Lead to define technical architecture for enterprise agentic AI capabilities. You will lead the Agentic Lab, prototype, validate, and industrialize AI agent technologies with reusable patterns for secure, scalable deployment.

Responsibilities include setting standards, evaluating foundation models, building accelerators, and partnering with security and governance teams. 10%+ travel may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 12+ years of experience designing enterprise software platforms, AI architectures, data/AI products, or cloud-native engineering capabilities, including executive-level technical leadership responsibilities.
• Deep architecture expertise across LLMs, agent frameworks, multi-agent orchestration, RAG, vector and graph databases, tool/function calling, memory, evaluation, observability, APIs, and cloud-native deployment.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical architecture, reference patterns, and engineering standards for enterprise agentic AI capabilities.
• Establish reusable patterns for agent orchestration, memory, evaluation, observability, tool use, RAG, APIs, and integration with enterprise systems.
• Lead the Agentic Lab innovation roadmap with rapid experimentation and controlled incubation of agentic AI technologies.
• Evaluate foundation models, agent frameworks, orchestration technologies, developer tooling, and emerging approaches for enterprise applicability.
• Build reusable proofs-of-concepts, accelerators, architectural blueprints, and reference implementations to shorten time-to-value.
• Partner with AI Engineering, Platform Engineering, Product, and Security to move prototypes into production-ready capabilities.
• Embed Responsible AI, security, privacy, data governance, and compliance into architectures from the start.
• Lead, coach, and develop technical talent across agentic architecture and lab activities.
• Communicate architectural decisions and trade-offs to senior stakeholders clearly.

Skills

Enterprise AI

Architecture leadership

LLMs & agent frameworks

Cloud-native

Governance & security

Stakeholder communication

Team coaching

Education

Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science/AI/Engineering

Tools

Azure AI Foundry/OpenAI

LangChain/LangGraph

Knowledge graphs

Job description

Novartis Group Companies seeks an Executive Director, Agentic Lab and Architecture Lead to define technical architecture for enterprise agentic AI capabilities. You will lead the Agentic Lab, prototype, validate, and industrialize AI agent technologies with reusable patterns for secure, scalable deployment.

Responsibilities include setting standards, evaluating foundation models, building accelerators, and partnering with security and governance teams. 10%+ travel may be required.