Director,DataScience&AgenticAI

**Band** Level 6 **Job Description Summary** Independently lead agentic AI initiatives within the SPPO Data Science and AI Strategy in Global Drug Development, directly contributing to faster delivery of transformative medicines to patients. Role model a culture of AI-augmented, data-driven decision-making across GDD functions — spanning clinical development, translational research, and regulatory. Deep technical expert with accountability for agentic AI systems that reduce time to insight and time to patient across global development programs. Shape the agentic AI direction for your organizational domain, grounded in the broader GDD strategy set by leadership. Where managing a team: empower, guide, and coach data scientists and AI engineers to deliver at the frontier of applied AI in drug development. **Job Description** **Internal job title:** Director **Position Location** : Hybrid working arrangement, Dublin, Ireland (position can also be based out Barcelona--please search for job REQ-10076880) **#LI-Hybrid** This is a senior AI leader role within Novartis Global Drug Development (GDD), responsible for leading the design, build, and productionization of agentic AI systems — think multi-agent architectures, tool-using LLMs, and autonomous workflow orchestration — to accelerate drug development timelines and time-to-patient. The role sits at the intersection of deep technical expertise (agentic frameworks, RAG, governance, data foundations) and strategic influence, shaping the agentic AI direction for its domain while collaborating across clinical development, translational research, and regulatory functions. Beyond hands-on design and delivery, the position carries accountability for agent evaluation frameworks (reliability, hallucination risk, auditability), agentic governance, stakeholder coordination across globally dispersed teams, and external visibility through publications and conference presentations. Where a team is in scope, the leader is expected to co