About the Role
Key Responsibilities:
- Solution Architecture & Delivery
- Define and deliver scalable AI solutions across discovery, development, regulatory, and commercial functions.
- Create and maintain reference architectures, reusable components, and best practices for GenAI adoption.
- Business Partnership
- Engage with business stakeholders to identify high-value use cases and translate requirements into technical solutions.
- Act as a trusted advisor for GenAI solutioning across India and global teams.
- Governance & Compliance
- Ensure alignment with responsible AI practices and compliance with HIPAA, GDPR, GxP, and EU AI Act.
- Embed security, transparency, and fairness principles into all architectures.
- Innovation & Ecosystem Engagement
- Evaluate and integrate new LLM models, frameworks, and orchestration tools (OpenAI, Anthropic, Llama, LangChain, LlamaIndex, DSPy).
- Partner with startups, academia, and vendors to bring cutting-edge GenAI innovation to Novartis.
- Leadership & Mentorship
- Provide technical guidance to solution teams and build GenAI capability within the India hub.
- Collaborate with peers across Novartis to ensure global consistency and scalability.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's / Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, AI/ML, or equivalent.
- 12+ years in enterprise IT/solution architecture, including 4+ years in AI/ML and 2+ years in GenAI.
- Experience in pharma, life sciences, or healthcare industry highly preferred.
- Hands-on knowledge of LLMs, vector databases, RAG, and multi-agent systems.
- Proven ability to design solutions across multi-cloud environments (Azure AI Foundry, AWS Bedrock).
- Strong familiarity with regulatory frameworks and AI governance.
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Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
Benefits and Rewards: Learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally.
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