Associate Director IT Solution Architect
novartis
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
- Design and evolve architecture for the Statistical Compute Environment aligned to enterprise standards
- Integrate scientific software and modeling tools for pharmacometrics and quantitative sciences
- Optimize HPC workloads for scalability, extensibility, performance, and business value
- Ensure solution designs trace to functional and non‑functional requirements
- Administer Unix/Linux systems and batch queue management in HPC environments
- Manage workflow orchestration tools such as Snakemake, Nextflow, and Cromwell
- Operate workload schedulers including SLURM and IBM Spectrum LSF
- Monitor HPC health and utilization using observability tools like Grafana
- Collaborate with security to harden environments and ensure regulatory compliance
- Lead multi‑cloud integrations and support continuous integration and deployment
Essential Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or information technology
- Experience working in a regulated pharmaceutical information technology environment
- Proven architecture and design experience for high‑performance computing environments
- Strong proficiency with Unix and Linux administration and advanced scripting
- Hands‑on experience with scientific software and modeling tools used in pharmacometrics
- Proficiency with workload schedulers such as SLURM and IBM Spectrum LSF
- Experience implementing workflow orchestration tools such as Nextflow, Cromwell, and Snakemake
- Demonstrated experience with cloud architecture, containerization, and Elastic Kubernetes Services.