Data Engineering Lead for Enterprise Data & Governance

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

Job summary

The Associate Director, Data Engineering at Novartis Group of Companies in East Hanover, NJ leads enterprise data standards, governance, and modern DataOps practices to enable reliable, compliant data products. This role drives strategy across platforms, ensures data quality, and partners with governance, privacy, architecture, and platform teams.

You will oversee data contracts, observability, and automated pipelines, shaping data delivery for patient-centered outcomes and enterprise-wide data

Qualifications

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

Data Engineering

Data Governance

Data Architecture

Data Pipelines

Data Observability

Contract Management

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

The Associate Director, Data Engineering at Novartis Group of Companies in East Hanover, NJ leads enterprise data standards, governance, and modern DataOps practices to enable reliable, compliant data products. This role drives strategy across platforms, ensures data quality, and partners with governance, privacy, architecture, and platform teams.

You will oversee data contracts, observability, and automated pipelines, shaping data delivery for patient-centered outcomes and enterprise-wide data