Senior Specialist Security Architecture AI

About the role

Novartis is hiring a Senior Specialist Security Architecture AI in Prague, a hybrid role combining AI security architecture with hands-on engineering. You will protect emerging AI and agentic systems from development through deployment, influence security standards and patterns, and work with engineering teams to embed security across AI platforms, models, data and development pipelines. Relocation support is not offered.

Key responsibilities

• Shape secure AI architectures, standards and patterns across enterprise AI platforms and solutions
• Define security strategies for AI models, datasets, pipelines and supporting infrastructure
• Assess AI environments, identify vulnerabilities and mitigate risks throughout the AI lifecycle
• Design secure agentic AI workflows, Model Context Protocol servers and integrations
• Embed security into AI development, deployment and ML operations processes
• Develop secure Python services, integrations, web applications and developer-facing tools
• Build and optimize security scanning for AI-generated code and software dependencies
• Evaluate AI security technologies and partner with engineering, data science and platform teams on security-by-design
• Communicate AI security risks and architecture decisions to technical and senior stakeholders

Required profile

• Relevant degree or equivalent experience, with substantial professional experience across security, architecture and software development
• At least 2 years of hands-on AI security and engineering experience, including securing models, data and deployments
• Strong AI security architecture expertise, including threat modelling, risk identification, patterns, standards and controls
• Experience securing agentic AI, including Model Context Protocol integrations, agent workflows and AI gateways
• Strong cloud security and architecture experience, especially Amazon Web Services, with knowledge of ML operations and secure deployment

Required skills

• Professional Python development, automated testing and use of AI coding agents
• Desirable: Cranium, Noma, JFrog Xray, HiddenLayer or Darktrace
• Desirable: building developer-facing command-line tools and working across global, multi-vendor environments

What we offer

• Base salary of CZK 948,290 to 1,761,110, plus a possible performance-based bonus
• CZ-only benefits: pension matching up to 3%, life insurance, 5 weeks holiday, 4 paid sick days, cafeteria benefit, meal vouchers, car allowance and MultiSport card
• Flexible and hybrid working where possible, and at least 14 weeks of paid parental leave