Director - Data & Analytics Integration & Eventing Platforms

Novartis India; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,200,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis India is seeking a senior leader to helm the vision, architecture, and operations of the Enterprise Integration & Eventing Platform. This role drives API-first, event-driven, and AI-enabled capabilities to accelerate transformation while ensuring security, scalability, and interoperability across the enterprise.

You will partner with business and technology stakeholders to optimize platform capabilities, implement automation, and guide change management to maximize adoption and business

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or IT; advanced degrees a plus.
• 15+ years leading enterprise data, analytics, integration platforms, or SaaS solutions.
• Proven track record in large-scale technology transformations and architecture leadership.
• Hands-on with enterprise integration and eventing in cloud platforms and listed tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Integration & Eventing platform strategy and delivery for enterprise-scale transformation.
• Define and govern platform architecture, standards, and guidelines across enterprise needs.
• Manage the platform as a product with roadmaps, adoption strategies, and value metrics.
• Enable enterprise-wide integration, supporting Data Products, AI initiatives, and interoperability.
• Ensure high-quality delivery through release management, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and QA practices.
• Drive security, privacy, and compliance controls within platform engineering.
• Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to shape initiatives and align with roadmaps.
• Build organizational capability through self-service, change management, and leadership.

Skills

Platform leadership

Strategy & roadmaps

Stakeholder management

Change management

Observability & cost optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or IT

Tools

AWS

Azure

AWS Glue

Informatica

API Management

AI Gateway

Boomi

Solace

Managed File Transfer

Data Virtualization

Change Data Capture (Fivetran)

Axway

Job description

Summary

Lead the vision, strategy, architecture, engineering, and operations of the Enterprise Integration & Eventing Platform, driving API-first, event-driven, and AI-enabled capabilities that accelerate business transformation, enable enterprise interoperability, simplify the technology landscape, and deliver secure, scalable, and compliant digital services. Partner closely with business and technology stakeholders to optimize platform capabilities, drive operational excellence through automation and proactive monitoring, and ensure successful adoption through effective change management and communication.

Lead the vision, strategy, architecture, engineering, and operations of the Enterprise Integration & Eventing Platform, driving API-first, event-driven, and AI-enabled capabilities that accelerate business transformation, enable enterprise interoperability, simplify the technology landscape, and deliver secure, scalable, and compliant digital services. Partner closely with business and technology stakeholders to optimize platform capabilities, drive operational excellence through automation and proactive monitoring, and ensure successful adoption through effective change management and communication.

About The Role

Major Accountabilities

• Lead the Integration & Eventing platform strategy and delivery, driving enterprise-scale transformation initiatives focused on automation, simplification, scalability, observability, and continuous cost optimization.
• Define and govern platform architecture, including capabilities, reference architectures, standards, patterns, and guidelines, ensuring alignment with enterprise, data, security, and operational requirements.
• Manage the platform as a product, owning roadmaps, adoption strategies, success metrics, and value realization targets to maximize platform reuse, engineering efficiency, and business outcomes.
• Enable enterprise-wide integration and interoperability, supporting Data Products, AI/GenAI initiatives, digital platforms, and seamless information exchange across internal and external ecosystems.
• Ensure high-quality, reliable platform delivery through effective release management, CI/CD, DevSecOps, software engineering, QA practices, financial management, and delivery governance.
• Drive engineering excellence and compliance-by-design, enforcing best practices, peer reviews, quality gates, documentation standards, business sign-offs, and automated adherence to security, privacy, data, and quality controls.
• Partner with business, IT, and vendor stakeholders to shape initiatives, perform fit-gap analysis, design scalable solutions, estimate effort, manage strategic partnerships, and ensure alignment with business roadmaps and architectural standards.
• Build platform adoption and organizational capability, leading self-service enablement, change management, executive communication, stakeholder influence, and the development of high-performing teams that continuously improve engineering standards and ways of working.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or information technology discipline; an advanced degree and related accreditations a plus.
• 15+ years of experience in Enterprise Data, Analytics, Integration Platforms, or SaaS solutions, with a strong track record of solution architecture, platform transformation, and delivery leadership within complex global matrix organizations.
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale technology transformations, with deep understanding of complex enterprise architectures, digital ecosystems, interoperability frameworks, and business process optimization across global organizations.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise integration and eventing technologies in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), AWS Glue, Informatica, API Management, AI Gateway, Boomi, Solace, Managed File Transfer, Data Virtualization, Change Data Capture (e.g., Fivetran), Axway, and modern integration architectures.
• Experience leveraging AI, Agentic AI, intelligent automation, and Agent Core Gateway capabilities to streamline integration delivery, enhance platform operations, improve observability, and accelerate onboarding and developer productivity.

Why Novartis?

Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people's lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us!

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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.

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