Associate Director, Data Engineering Lead

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Level 5

Job Description Summary

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Location: East Hanover New Jersey

Novartis is unable to offer relocation support: please only apply if accessible.

Company will not sponsor visas for this position.

The preferred location for this role is East Hanover New Jersey site but remote work may be possible (there may be some restrictions based on legal entity). Please note that this role would not provide relocation as a result. If associate is remote all home office expenses and any travel/lodging to specific East Hanover New Jersey site for periodic live meetings will be at the employees expense. The expectation of working hours and travel (domestic and/or international) will be defined by the hiring manager.

Ready to build the foundation that powers trusted AI-ready data at scale As Associate Director Data Engineering you will play a pivotal role in shaping how enterprise data is engineered governed and delivered across Novartis. Working at the intersection of data platforms governance and innovation you will establish the standards controls and engineering capabilities that enable reliable compliant and high-quality data products. This is an exciting opportunity to influence enterprise-wide data strategy drive modern DataOps practices and help accelerate data-driven decision making that ultimately supports better outcomes for patients worldwide.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Define and enforce enterprise standards for data engineering pipeline reliability and production controls.

• Design and oversee scalable governed data pipelines supporting critical business and data domains.

• Lead the enterprise data contract lifecycle including review approval governance and enforcement.

• Implement data observability capabilities across monitoring anomaly detection service levels and operational alerting.

• Establish controls that ensure critical data elements remain traceable validated and protected.

• Develop safeguards that prevent incomplete inaccurate or non-compliant data from reaching downstream systems.

• Partner with data modeling teams to align engineering implementation with approved enterprise data models.

• Collaborate across governance privacy architecture and platform teams to enable compliant data delivery.

• Drive automation for deployment validation metadata capture lineage generation testing and reporting.

• Monitor operational performance and lead resolution of pipeline contract and data reliability issues.

Essential Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Data Engineering Data Management Engineering Analytics or a related field.

• 5 years of experience in data engineering data governance data architecture data product management or enterprise data platform delivery.

• Experience designing building or governing enterprise data pipelines data products data platforms or data integration capabilities.

• Direct experience with data contracts schema validation data pipeline monitoring data observability or data product certification.

• Experience working in complex enterprise environments with multiple data producers consumers vendors platforms and governance stakeholders.

Desirable Requirements

• Advanced degree or relevant cloud data engineering data management or architecture certification.

• Experience supporting regulated privacy-sensitive or compliance-driven data environments.

The salary for this position is expected to range between $152600 - $283400per year. The final salary offered is determined based on factors like but not limited to relevant skills and experience and upon joining Novartis will be reviewed periodically. Novartis may change the published salary range based on company and market factors.

Your compensation will include a performance-based cash incentive and depending on the level of the role eligibility to be considered for annual equity -based eligible employees will receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes health life and disability benefits a 401(k) with company contribution and match and avariety of other addition employees are eligible for a generous time off package including vacation personal days holidays and other leaves.

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EEO Statement:

The Novartis Group of Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers. We do not discriminate in recruitment hiring training promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race color religion gender national origin age sexual orientation gender identity or expression marital or veteran status disability or any other legally protected status. We strive to create an inclusive workplace that cultivates bold innovation through collaboration and empowers our people to unleash their full potential.

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Range

$152600.00 - $283400.00

Skills Desired

Cross-Functional Collaboration Customer Engagement Customer Insights Data Analytics Digital Marketing Market Research Media Campaigns Product Marketing Stakeholder Engagement Stakeholder Management Team Leadership Waterfall Model