Data Engineering Lead, Associate Director (Enterprise Data)

U014 (FCRS = US014) Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation; East Hanover (NJ); Hybrid; USD 153,000 - 283,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation in East Hanover, NJ is seeking an Associate Director, Data Engineering to shape enterprise data strategy, governance, and delivery. You will lead scalable, governed data pipelines and data contracts across platforms, partnering with governance, privacy, architecture, and data modeling teams.

The role emphasizes DataOps, observability, and automation for deployment and testing, with a salary range of $152,600 to $283,400 and a comprehensive benefits package

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering or enterprise data platforms.
• Experience designing or governing enterprise data pipelines.
• Experience with data contracts, schema validation, or data observability.
• Experience in complex enterprise environments with multiple data producers/consumers.

Responsibilities

• Define and enforce enterprise standards for data engineering, pipeline reliability, and production controls.
• Design scalable, governed data pipelines and align with approved enterprise data models.
• Lead the enterprise data contract lifecycle including governance and enforcement.
• Implement data observability across monitoring, anomaly detection, service levels, and alerting.
• Drive automation for deployment, validation, metadata capture, lineage, testing, and reporting.
• Monitor performance and resolve pipeline and data reliability issues.

Skills

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Customer Engagement

Data Analytics

Stakeholder Engagement

Team Leadership

Waterfall Model

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation in East Hanover, NJ is seeking an Associate Director, Data Engineering to shape enterprise data strategy, governance, and delivery. You will lead scalable, governed data pipelines and data contracts across platforms, partnering with governance, privacy, architecture, and data modeling teams.

The role emphasizes DataOps, observability, and automation for deployment and testing, with a salary range of $152,600 to $283,400 and a comprehensive benefits package