Head DDIT IES Cloud & Hosting Services

Job Description Summary

Location: Prague, Czech Republic ; #LI-Hybrid 12 days/month in office

Internal Job title: Head DDIT IES Cloud & Hosting Services

Head DDIT IES Cloud & Hosting Services is responsible for defining and delivering a unified global platform strategy across cloud, hosting, AI, and high performance compute environments. It leads the creation of secure, compliant, scalable, and cost effective platforms that support both enterprise and scientific workloads, including model training, inference, simulation, and advanced analytics. The position drives hands on platform engineering, automation, and self service across public cloud, private cloud, hybrid, and workload optimized architectures. It also partners closely with senior stakeholders, vendors, and global teams to accelerate platform adoption, innovation, resilience, and measurable business value.

 

Job Description

Key responsibilities:

• Define and execute a unified platform strategy across: Public Cloud (AWS, Azure) Private Cloud & Hosting Services Middleware, Application Services, and Database platforms AI Platforms and High‑Performance Compute (HPC)

• Establish standardized, productized, and reusable platforms that balance performance, cost, speed, resilience, and compliance across global markets.

• Translate enterprise and scientific AI needs into scalable AI and HPC platform capabilities, enabling model training, inference, simulation, and advanced analytics.

• Lead hands‑on design and delivery of: Cloud‑native and hybrid hosting platforms AI platforms (model development, training, inference enablement) HPC environments optimized for compute‑intensive workloads

• Ensure security‑by‑design, compliance‑by‑default, and automation are embedded across all platforms.

• Drive infrastructure‑ and platform‑as‑code, self‑service provisioning, and workload‑optimized architectures (cloud, on‑prem, hybrid) including transition to Agentic approaches

• Partner with senior business leaders, IT Business Partners, and product teams to shape demand, solution options, and funding models.

• Define and govern System Integrator and technology partner strategies, including cloud providers, AI/HPC ecosystem partners, and platform vendors. Actively engage partners in co‑engineering, design partnerships, and innovation programs.

• Establish and implement strong platform governance and FinOps across the environment

• Lead and develop cross‑functional platform engineering and operations teams in a global matrix environment.

Essential Requirements:

• 15+ years of experience leading large scale global team delivering enterprise cloud and hosting services, including a large scale AWS and Azure foot print.

• Hands‑on leadership of AI and High‑Performance Compute environment andplatforms, supporting large‑scale compute, data, and model workloads.

• Experience designing platforms in regulated, security‑sensitive environments.

• Ability to lead large, cross‑functional engineering teams in a global matrix organization.

• Strong track record in strategy definition, platform build, and operational ownership.

Desirable Sills :

• Cloud & Platform Strategy (Public, Private, Hybrid, AI Clusters, Neo Clouds)

• Hosting Platforms (Middleware, Application Services, Databases)

• Agentic Operations, DevSecOps & Platform Engineering

• Security, Risk & Compliance Leadership

• Partner & Vendor Management

• Financial & Cost Governance

• Talent Development & Change Leadership

• Stakeholder Engagement & Executive Communication

• Operational Excellence

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

What you will receive:

Monthly pension contribution matching your individual contribution up to 3% of your gross monthly base salary; Risk Life Insurance (full cost covered by Novartis); 5-week holiday per year; (1 week above the Labour Law requirement) ; 4 paid sick days within one calendar year in case of absence due to sickness without a medical sickness report; Cafeteria employee benefit program – choice of benefits from Benefit Plus Cafeteria in the amount of 17,500 CZK per year; Meal vouchers in amount of 90 CZK for each working day (full tax covered by company); transportation allowance; MultiSport Card. Find out more about Novartis Business Services: https://www.novartis.cz/

 

Skills Desired

Business Acumen, Communication, Consulting, Customer Requirement, financial modelling, Influencing Skills, Innovation, Learning Agility, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Leadership, Talent Development, Technology Strategy, Vendor Management