Executive Director, AI Foundations Engineering Lead - Remote

### **Summary** This position can be based remotely anywhere in the U.S. Please note that this role would not provide relocation as a result. The expectation of working hours and travel (domestic and/or international) will be defined by the Hiring Manager. ### **About the Role** The Strategy, Platforms \& Transformation team is dedicated to enabling improved decision\-making at Novartis by leveraging data and advanced analytics capabilities to generate actionable insights that drive business growth. We work within the US business, bringing insights and challenging ideas to empower smarter, data\-driven decision\-making. This role is crucial in driving AI transformation by bringing the best in AI and tech to unlock opportunities for growth and improve patient outcomes. The Executive Director, AI Foundations Engineering Lead will lead the engineering strategy, delivery, and operational excellence for the organization’s agentic AI operating system, with responsibility spanning solution architecture, development, operations, and continuous improvement. This role will be central to enabling the transformation of existing processes, products, and services into agentic AI products and intelligent workflows by providing a scalable, secure, and high performing foundation. The ideal candidate will bring deep engineering leadership, systems thinking, and technical vision to guide the design and evolution of core agentic capabilities, establish engineering standards and operating models, and lead cross functional teams in delivering resilient and extensible AI services. Working closely with product leaders, business stakeholders, data and technology teams, and transformation leaders, this role will ensure the agentic systems accelerate innovation, support enterprise adoption, and delivers measurable business value through reliable and scalable execution. **Major Accountabilities:** * Define and lead the engineering strategy, roadmap, and operating model for our organization’s agentic AI platform. * Oversee the design, development, integration, deployment, and ongoing operation of foundational capabilities that support agentic AI products and workflows. * Establish platform engineering standards, architectural principles, and development practices to ensure scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability. * Lead cross functional engineering teams in building reusable platform services, tools, and components that accelerate product delivery and adoption. * Partner with product, data, infrastructure, security, and business teams to align platform capabilities with enterprise priorities and evolving user needs. * Drive platform performance, operational excellence, and continuous improvement through monitoring, feedback loops, incident review, and service optimization. * Guide the modernization of existing systems and processes to enable integration with agentic AI products, workflows, and platform services. * Communicate agentic AI strategy, techni