Remote Associate Director: Data Quality & AI-Ready Data

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp.; United States; Hybrid; USD 153,000 - 283,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Disability benefits

401(k) with company match

Job summary

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. in East Hanover, New Jersey seeks an Associate Director, Data Quality to lead enterprise data quality initiatives across governance, engineering, and product teams.

You will establish quality standards, drive observability, oversee remediation, and deliver trusted datasets to support analytics, AI, and regulatory excellence. Remote work may be possible; travel and site attendance defined by the hiring manager.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data quality, including 3+ years leading teams in a regulated industry (pharma/life sciences strongly preferred).
• Strong understanding of data quality dimensions, data profiling, data validation, data cleansing, root cause analysis, and remediation.
• Knowledge of data governance frameworks, data stewardship, critical data elements, metadata, lineage, and data product certification.
• Familiarity with data quality tools, data observability platforms, SQL, data catalogs, workflow tools, and reporting dashboards.
• Understanding of data engineering concepts, including data pipelines, ingestion, transformation, controls, monitoring, and production support.
• Ability to define measurable data quality rules and translate business requirements into technical requirements.
• Knowledge of AI-ready data concepts, including trusted datasets, lineage, quality thresholds, and governed usage.

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, and high-quality datasets.
• Maintain documentation, remediation plans, operational trackers, and control evidence.
• Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and confidence in enterprise data.

Skills

Data quality management

Data governance

Data profiling

Root cause analysis

Data observability

Tools

SQL

Data catalogs

Workflow tools

Reporting dashboards

Job description

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. in East Hanover, New Jersey seeks an Associate Director, Data Quality to lead enterprise data quality initiatives across governance, engineering, and product teams.

You will establish quality standards, drive observability, oversee remediation, and deliver trusted datasets to support analytics, AI, and regulatory excellence. Remote work may be possible; travel and site attendance defined by the hiring manager.