Job Description Summary
Scientific computing sits at the centre of how Novartis discovers and develops medicines. Cloud & Hosting Services has established AI & HPC Engineering as the single engineering and delivery channel for high-performance computing, and Architecture & Integration owns the target architecture behind it. The HPC Infrastructure Architect is accountable for that architecture: the compute, storage, interconnect, scheduling and data-locality design that scientific workloads run on, on premises and in the cloud.

The role translates scientific demand - molecular modelling, imaging and cryo-electron microscopy, genomics, simulation and increasingly AI-adjacent workloads - into capacity models, workload placement principles and platform patterns. It carries the physical dependencies with it: power, rack and cooling envelopes, high-performance storage tiers, network fabric, and the data centre and colocation footprint that a large campus and site transformation programme is reshaping.





This is an individual contributor architecture role in which credibility with scientists matters as much as credibility with infrastructure engineers.

Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
- Own the HPC reference architecture: cluster topologies, CPU and GPU node designs, high-performance and tiered storage, interconnect fabric, schedulers and the software stack that supports scientific workflows.
- Define the scientific workload placement model - which workloads run on dedicated clusters, which burst to cloud, and which belong on AI platforms - based on performance, data gravity, cost and compliance.
- Produce and maintain capacity plans for compute, accelerators, storage and network, including the power, rack and cooling requirements that data centre and colocation planning depends on.
- Establish data-locality and data-movement principles across instruments, laboratories, storage tiers, archive and cloud, including replication and recovery approaches for irreplaceable

📌 Associate Director (Hyderabad)
🏢 Novartis
📍 Hyderabad