Data Engineering Lead, Enterprise Platforms & Governance

Legend Biotech USA; East Hanover (NJ); Hybrid; USD 153,000 - 283,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis seeks an Associate Director, Data Engineering in East Hanover, NJ to set enterprise data standards, govern data products, and deliver scalable pipelines across governance, privacy, and platform teams. Remote work may be possible with some travel obligations and no relocation support.

You will lead data observability, contracts, and automation while partnering with modeling teams to align with enterprise data models and ensure compliant data delivery for patients worldwide.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Data Management, Analytics, or 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.

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

Data engineering

Data governance

Data architecture

Data contracts

Data pipelines

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree

Job description

Novartis seeks an Associate Director, Data Engineering in East Hanover, NJ to set enterprise data standards, govern data products, and deliver scalable pipelines across governance, privacy, and platform teams. Remote work may be possible with some travel obligations and no relocation support.

You will lead data observability, contracts, and automation while partnering with modeling teams to align with enterprise data models and ensure compliant data delivery for patients worldwide.