Data Quality Lead - Associate Director

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

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-based incentive

Annual equity awards

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Novartis in East Hanover, New Jersey seeks an Associate Director, Data Quality to lead enterprise data quality initiatives across governance and engineering teams. You will define standards, build dashboards, and drive measurable improvements in data trust, enabling analytics and AI initiatives at scale.

The role requires 8+ years in data quality, plus leadership in regulated environments. This position offers a comprehensive benefits package, performance-based incentives, and potential equity

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data quality with leadership in a regulated industry.
• Strong knowledge of data quality dimensions, profiling, validation, remediation.
• Familiarity with governance, lineage, metadata, data product certification.
• Proficiency with data quality tools, observability platforms, SQL.
• Understanding of data engineering concepts including pipelines and monitoring.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical data quality rules.

Responsibilities

• Define and advance enterprise data quality standards, frameworks, policies, and measurement practices.
• Establish scalable quality rules, thresholds, scorecards, dashboards, and control frameworks.
• Partner with stakeholders to translate business needs into measurable data quality requirements.
• Embed data quality controls throughout data product lifecycle and certification process.
• Lead enterprise monitoring, reporting, and performance tracking for critical data assets.
• Drive data quality issue triage, root cause analysis, escalation, and resolution.

Skills

Data quality

Data governance

Data profiling

SQL

Data observability

Data pipelines

Stakeholder collaboration

Regulated industry experience

Data catalogs

Workflow tools

Tools

Data observability platforms

Data catalogs

Workflow tools

Dashboards & reporting

Job description

Novartis in East Hanover, New Jersey seeks an Associate Director, Data Quality to lead enterprise data quality initiatives across governance and engineering teams. You will define standards, build dashboards, and drive measurable improvements in data trust, enabling analytics and AI initiatives at scale.

The role requires 8+ years in data quality, plus leadership in regulated environments. This position offers a comprehensive benefits package, performance-based incentives, and potential equity