Associate Director, AI Security Architecture

Novartis is hiring an Associate Director, AI Security Architecture. Level rates it ; you can apply on Novartis.

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Works on AI ●●●○ is how Level rates this role: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
The posting mentions AI agents among its tools and skills.
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Job Description Summary

Internal Job Title: Assoc. Dir. DDIT ISC Security Architecture AI
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Location: Israel

Relocation Support: This role is based in Israel. Novartis is unable to offer relocation support: please only apply if accessible.

Help shape how AI can be built, deployed, and scaled securely. In this role, you’ll influence the security architecture behind next-Generation AI solutions, defining standards and patterns that protect AI models, data, pipelines, and agentic systems throughout their lifecycle. You’ll work at the intersection of AI, cybersecurity, cloud engineering, and architecture, partnering with technical teams to address emerging threats, strengthen secure AI development, and turn evolving security challenges into practical, scalable solutions.

Job Description

Key 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.

Essential Requirements

12+ years of overall professional experience, including substantial experience across security, architecture, software development, and AI security engineering.
At least 5 years of security experience, 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, deployed AI solutions, security policies, standards, and architecture patterns.
Strong knowledge of AI threats, risk identification, threat modeling, data privacy, and defenses against adversarial and AI-based attacks.
Hands-on experience securing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning applications across cloud platforms, with strong Amazon Web Services engineering and architecture expertise.
Production experience with AI coding agents, Model Context Protocol servers, agent workflows, Python development, automated testing, and AI gateway integrations.

Desirable Requirements

Security engineering or application security background, with experience evaluating and working with specialized AI security technologies.
Experience building developer-facing command-line tools and working effectively in multi-vendor, global technology environments.

Skills Desired

Business Acumen, Business Value Creation, Change Management, Consulting, Digital Capabilities, Enterprise Architecture (EA), Influencing Skills, Integration Architecture, IT Governance, Solution Architecture, Stakeholder Engagement

How we rate this

Associate Director, AI Security Architecture at Novartis rates 75 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Associate Director, AI Security Architecture is an open job at Novartis.
Level rates this role AI Level 3 of 4: Works on AI.
The role is based in Israel.
The job was posted on November 2, 2026.
Seniority: executive.
Applications are handled by Novartis. Apply on Novartis

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