About this role
The Head of Security Architecture serves as the enterprise’s lead architect for a cognitive and autonomous security ecosystem, bridging the gap between sophisticated industrial (OT) environments and frontier AI-driven innovation. This role is responsible for architecting a self-healing, intelligence-led security fabric that directly enables Polpharma’s business agility and digital growth. By institutionalizing "AI-Security-by-Design," the position ensures that security acts as a fundamental business accelerator. The role plays a pivotal part in the enterprise’s AI transition, orchestrating architectural guardrails for the secure, scalable consumption of agentic AI systems while maintaining uncompromising regulatory and operational integrity.
Key Responsibilities:
Cognitive Architectural Strategy & Enablement:
• Defining and executing a Group-wide security architecture roadmap that prioritizes autonomous defense and AI-native infrastructure • Translating frontier AI threat intelligence into scalable, self-healing architectural patterns that eliminate technical debt and accelerate digital trust • Governing security technology investments with a focus on AI-driven ROI and architectural resilience in a multi-cloud and edge-computing environment Frontier AI Security & Model Orchestration:
• Architecting and implementing a "Security-for-AI" framework to protect the entire lifecycle of proprietary LLM/ML models, from training data lineage to adversarial defense • Designing technical guardrails against model inversion, prompt injection, and algorithmic poisoning to ensure the reliability of autonomous pharmaceutical systems • Serving as the principal authority on AI-to-AI security protocols, ensuring safe interaction between autonomous agentic systems and core business infrastructure Autonomous Cross-Domain Resilience (IT/OT/AI):
• Architecting the cognitive convergence of IT, OT, and AI environments, ensuring seamless and secure data flows across critical manufacturing and clinical assets. • Overseeing the deployment of "Self-Healing" Zero Trust architectures that automatically adjust security postures based on real-time anomaly detection • Championing "Policy-as-Code" and "Architecture-as-Code" (AaC) to ensure continuous compliance and rapid, automated remediation of architectural vulnerabilities Leadership & Capability Building
• Chairing the Cognitive Architecture Review Board, resolving complex trade-offs between innovation speed, algorithmic transparency, and security risk • Mentoring and developing a high-performing team of AI-Security architects, fostering a culture of technical rigor, continuous innovation, and cross-domain collaboration • Driving enterprise-wide AI-literacy among technical stakeholders to ensure that "Security-by-Design" is an automated, non-intrusive feature of all digital projects
What We Offer
• Employment contract • Work in a modern, international pharmaceutical environment • Hybrid or digital working model • Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package, including: • private medical care, • Multisport subsidy, • lunch card, • life insurance, • cafeteria system, • company car or car allowance • Employee Pension Program (3.5% employer contribution), • relocation package (if applicable), • training and all necessary work tools, • one additional day off per year.
• Strong focus on development and learning opportunities
Qualifications:
• Master’s degree in security architecture, AI/Machine Learning, or Computer Science • Min.5 years of leadership in security architecture, with extensive experience in multi-cloud and OT/ICS environments • Mastery of AI-security frameworks and recognized expert-level certifications (e.g., CISSP-ISSAP, TOGAF, or specialized AI-Security credentials) • Exceptional ability to communicate the strategic value of autonomous security architecture to C-level and board stakeholders • Fluent Polish and English