Remote Associate Director, Data Quality & AI-Ready Data

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

Job summary

Novartis Group of Companies in East Hanover, NJ seeks an Associate Director, Data Quality to lead enterprise data quality initiatives across governance, engineering and product teams. You will define standards, implement measurable quality controls, and drive improvements that enable AI-ready data for analytics, regulatory excellence and business decision-making.

This role offers remote flexibility with periodic on-site meetings.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data quality, including 3+ years leading teams in a regulated industry.
• Strong knowledge of data quality dimensions, profiling, validation, cleansing.
• Familiarity with data governance, metadata, lineage, and data product certification.
• Experience with SQL, data catalogs, workflow tools, and reporting dashboards.
• Understanding of data engineering concepts, pipelines, ingestion, transformation, monitoring.
• Ability to translate business requirements into measurable data quality rules.
• Knowledge of AI-ready data concepts, trusted datasets and governance.

Responsibilities

• Define and advance enterprise data quality standards, frameworks, policies, and measurement practices.
• Establish scalable quality rules, thresholds, scorecards, dashboards, and reusable control frameworks.
• Partner with stakeholders to translate business needs into measurable data quality requirements.
• Embed data quality controls throughout the 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 activities.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to automate quality checks and data observability capabilities.
• Support AI-ready data initiatives by ensuring trusted, governed datasets.
• Maintain documentation, remediation plans, operational trackers, and control evidence.
• Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and confidence in enterprise data.

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

Job description

Novartis Group of Companies in East Hanover, NJ seeks an Associate Director, Data Quality to lead enterprise data quality initiatives across governance, engineering and product teams. You will define standards, implement measurable quality controls, and drive improvements that enable AI-ready data for analytics, regulatory excellence and business decision-making.

This role offers remote flexibility with periodic on-site meetings.