Data Engineering Lead — Enterprise Platform & Governance

Novartis AG; East Hanover (NJ); Hybrid; USD 153,000 - 283,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis is seeking an Associate Director, Data Engineering in East Hanover, NJ to shape enterprise data engineering, governance, and delivery. You will set standards across data platforms and enable reliable, compliant data products and DataOps practices for decision support.

You will lead data pipeline design, enforcement of governance, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure data quality and traceability across critical domains.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field is required.
• 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.

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.

Skills

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

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Data Management, Engineering, Analytics, or a related field

Job description

Novartis is seeking an Associate Director, Data Engineering in East Hanover, NJ to shape enterprise data engineering, governance, and delivery. You will set standards across data platforms and enable reliable, compliant data products and DataOps practices for decision support.

You will lead data pipeline design, enforcement of governance, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure data quality and traceability across critical domains.