About this role
Assoc Director, IT Systems Engineering
At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.
Every member of Gilead’s team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we’re looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact.
We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible, together.
Architecture & Platform Strategy
Define and evolve the target-state architecture for the self-serve data, AI, and agentic AI platform, aligned to enterprise strategy, data mesh principles, and regulatory requirements
Establish enterprise standards and reference architectures for data products, semantic layer services, AI/LLM gateways, agent orchestration, and API- and MCP-based data access
Architect the platform layers that let AI systems and agents find, trust, ask, and act on enterprise data — including data product interfaces, semantic context services, and governed write/action patterns
Define tiered certification and governance patterns that scale data product trust from registered assets to autonomous-grade, AI-ready products
Establish foundational patterns for retrieval, context enrichment, grounding, and tool exposure (RAG, semantic layer, MCP tool surfaces) to support agentic and real-time decisioning use cases
Engineering & Infrastructure
Lead engineering of scalable, secure platform infrastructure on AWS (S3, Lake Formation, Glue, EKS, Bedrock, IAM, networking) and Databricks (Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Delta Live Tables, Databricks SQL, MLflow, Mosaic AI)
Engineer the agentic AI platform stack: agent runtimes, orchestration, agent identity and access management, action/write contracts, evaluation harnesses, and observability
Implement platform engineering best practices: infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), CI/CD, automated testing, environment promotion, and GxP/Part 11-compliant change management
Drive operational excellence across reliability, cost management (FinOps for data and AI workloads), observability