Senior Specialist - Visualization platforms

Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis is seeking a Senior Enterprise Analytics Specialist in Hyderabad to drive adoption of Power BI and Microsoft Fabric, collaborating with stakeholders, vendors, and platform teams to deliver trusted analytics solutions.

You will support demand intake, prioritization, and end-to-end delivery to maximize value from data and reporting initiatives, while ensuring governance, security, and regulatory requirements are met.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Data & Analytics, BI, or Visualization platforms.
• 3+ years delivering enterprise analytics in a global environment.
• Hands-on with Power BI, Copilot and Fabric incl. reports & semantic models.
• Familiar with Databricks and Snowflake data platforms.
• Experience governance, security and data quality practices.

Responsibilities

• Support Enterprise Visualization Platform strategy with stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Gather requirements, support demand intake, and prioritize requests.
• Promote platform adoption with usage metrics and value reports.
• Assist migration from legacy BI (e.g., Qlik) to approved platforms.
• Develop datasets, dashboards, templates, and reusable assets with governance.
• Provide user enablement via training, docs, and playbooks.
• Ensure ISC/compliance and regulatory requirements are met.

Skills

Power BI

Copilot

Microsoft Fabric

Data Visualization

Reports Development

Semantic Models

Workspace Management

Performance Optimization

RLS Security

Stakeholder Management

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

AWS

Job description

Job Description Summary

Location: Hyderabad

Drive adoption of Power BI and Microsoft Fabric, partnering with stakeholders, vendors, and platform teams to deliver trusted analytics solutions. Support business demand intake, prioritization, and end-to-end delivery to maximize business value from data and reporting initiatives.

Job Description

Major accountabilities

• Support the execution of the Enterprise Visualization Platform strategy by partnering with business stakeholders, platform leads, and delivery teams.
• Gather and analyze business requirements, support demand intake processes, and help prioritize requests aligned with business objectives and platform standards.
• Contribute to platform adoption by tracking usage metrics, preparing value realization reports, and supporting onboarding of new use cases.
• Support migration and decommissioning initiatives of legacy BI platforms (e.g., Qlik) by coordinating stakeholders, tracking progress, and ensuring smooth transitions to approved visualization platforms.
• Develop, maintain, and promote certified datasets, dashboards, templates, and reusable assets that enable governed self-service analytics. Execute governance and quality control activities to ensure adherence to platform standards, security requirements, data quality expectations, and architectural guidelines.
• Support user enablement through training sessions, documentation, office hours, playbooks, knowledge articles, and community engagement activities. Monitor platform adoption, utilization, operational health, and service performance, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement and optimization.
• Collaborate with vendors, development teams, and business users to resolve issues, improve user experience, and accelerate value delivery. Ensure compliance with Information Security & Compliance (ISC), legal, ethical, privacy, and regulatory requirements, including GxP requirements where applicable.

Minimum Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in Data & Analytics, Business Intelligence, or Visualization platforms.
• 3+ years of experience working with enterprise analytics and visualization solutions in a global environment.
• Hands-on expertise in Power BI, Copilot and Microsoft Fabric, including report development, semantic models, data visualization, workspace management, performance optimization, and security concepts such as RLS.
• Good understanding of modern data platforms and integration patterns, including Databricks, Snowflake, and cloud-based analytics ecosystems.
• Experience supporting demand management, project delivery, platform operations, user adoption, and service reporting. Experience developing dashboards, KPIs, usage analytics, and value realization reports.
• Familiarity with governance, data quality, security, and compliance processes within enterprise analytics environments. Experience supporting training, community engagement, adoption programs, or Center of Excellence (CoE) initiatives.
• AWS exposure is desirable; relevant cloud, Power BI, Fabric, or analytics certifications are an advantage.
• Pharma or life sciences industry experience preferred; exposure to regulated environments (GxP) is an advantage.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Why consider 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!

Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

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.

Skills Desired

Microsoft Power Business Intelligence (BI) Data Visualization